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Current Students: Internal Paper Competitions

ESTRICH AWARD

Awarded For: Best Graduate Seminar Paper, Spring 2007-Winter 2008

Note to Professors: Please think about the best seminar papers that you have received in the past four quarters and have the students submit them for consideration. Students should submit three clean copies of the paper to Kathleen Griffin in the Graduate Office by Friday, April 18. They should also include a cover sheet with their name, your name, the paper title, and the course for which the paper was written. The paper itself should not identify the writer, the professor, or the course (it can include the title).

SACKS AWARD

Awarded For: Best Graduate Paper in Narrative Studies, Spring 2007-Winter 2008

Note to Professors: The Sacks Award is given to the best paper in narrative studies written in the past year. For the purposes of the award, narrative studies is defined broadly: interpretations of novels, films, autobiographies, biographies, oral narratives or other narrative texts are eligible; and so are essays in literary history and narrative theory. The award is open to essays employing any critical or theoretical approach, including "narrative criticism." However, it should not be given to works of creative nonfiction or to short stories. Students should submit three clean copies of the paper to Kathleen Griffin in the Graduate Office by Friday, April 18. They should also include a cover sheet with their name, your name, the paper title, and the course for which the paper was written. The paper itself should not identify the writer, the professor, or the course (it can include the title).

MUSTE AWARD

Awarded For: Best Dissertation, Spring 2007-Winter 2008

TO NOMINATE A DISSERTATION FOR THE MUSTE AWARD, the director of the dissertation needs to write a letter of nomination and submit it, along with a copy of the dissertation, to Kathleen Griffin in the Graduate Office by Friday, April 18.
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