Announcements of and links to the essays for the EWS Undergraduate Awards.
2020 Edith Wharton Undergraduate Research Prize
The Edith Wharton Society is pleased to announce the recipient of the 2020 scholarly awards. We also wish to thank the evaluation team of Jennifer Haytock and Rita Bode, who read the undergraduate essay submissions in a blind review process. Congratulations to the prize-winner, Janae Staltaro of Fairfield University!
2020 Awards:
Because of our current pandemic’s effect on travel, we have decided to suspend the Edith Wharton Society Archival Research Award for the present time. If you are interested in applying for this award, please hold your application materials until next summer.
2019 Edith Wharton Undergraduate Research Prize
Samuel McIntyre, William & Mary, for “Charity Case: The Gendered Economy of Gift-Giving in Summer.”
2018 Edith Wharton Undergraduate Research Prize
Emma Pierce, University of California, Irvine, for “The Stairs Not Taken: Domestic Space, Gender Roles, and Power in The House of Mirth”
2017 Edith Wharton Undergraduate Research Prize
Aidan Selmer, College of William and Mary, for “Risk and the Self-Fashioning Women in Wharton’s House of Mirth, Ethan Frome, and Summer.”
2015 Undergraduate Essay Prize Winner
Brittany Barron, Lily Bart’s “Process of Crystallization” Changing Brier Rose’s Fate in The House of Mirth
2014 Undergraduate Essay Prize Winners
Angela Sammarone, for “Edith Wharton and Race: Tracing Race throughout The Custom in the Country”
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