ISAACS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM
The Isaacs Scholarship at City College is an undergraduate scholarship for students at the College planning to pursue a major in English Literature. Isaacs Scholars are capable of serious work in humanistic studies. The program is built around a major in English literature with collateral work in Foreign languages and the Classics: the traditional disciplines of a liberal education. https://isaacs.ccny.cuny.edu/
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT ANNUAL AWARDS CEREMONY –
MAY 11, 2023, 12:00PM, SH 250
AY 2022 – 2023 Award Recipients
CREATIVE WRITING AWARDS
The Doris Lippman Prize in Creative Writing – Jo Stein
The Jerome Lowell DeJur Award In Fiction – Isaac Rysdahl
The Jerome Lowell DeJur Award In Poetry – Faith Brown
The David Dortort Prize in Playwriting – Emma Miller
The David Dortort Prize in Non-Fiction – Beryl Frishtick
The Goodman Fund Short Story Award – Evan Williams
The Undergraduate Children’s Writing Award – Safiyyah Savage
POETRY AWARDS
The David Markowitz Poetry Award – Sumya Abida
The Esther Unger Poetry Prize – Dedipta Bhattacharjee and Oumou Ly
The Goodman Fund Poetry Award – Evan Williams
ESSAY AWARDS
The Allan Danzig Memorial Award in Victorian and Romantic Literature – DeAsia Samuels
The Riggs Gold Medal Essay Award – Oumou Ly and Jennifer Martinez
The Meyer Cohn Graduate Essay Award in Literature – Corinne Shearer
THE IRWIN & ALICE STARK AWARDS
The Stark Short Fiction Prize – Julia Francis (graduate) and George Moacdieh (undergraduate)
The Stark Award in Fiction in Honor of Henry R. Roth – Evan Williams
The Stark Award in Drama in Memory of Ross Alexander – Myra Alperson
The Stark Poetry Prize in Memory of Raymond Patterson – Susan Chow
The Stark Award for Essay in Literature – Misha Parisius
The Stark English Composition Award in Memory of Mina Shaughnessy – David Archer
AWARDS FOR GENERAL EXCELLENCE
The David Dortort Undergraduate Fellowship – Daisy Kirkland
The Margaret Halmy Prize – Oumou Ly
The Edward C. and Ruth P. Mack Graduate Fellowship – DeAsia Samuels
The Lillian Feder Scholarship – Misha Parisius
The Albert Friend Award in Excellence in Medieval Studies – DeAsia Samuels
The Paul Roberts Memorial Scholarship – Nazaughn James
The Richard Shephard Award for Excellence in Writing – Cedar Ecker
THE MARILYN STERNGLASS AWARDS IN LANGUAGE & LITERACY:
The Marilyn Sternglass Writing Award – Gloria Nguyen and Erkinaz Shuminov
The Marilyn Sternglass Overall Merit Award – Gloria Nguyen and Maxwell Schnuer
TEACHING AWARDS
The Norman Levine Outstanding Teaching Award – Gloria Nguyen
The Teacher-Writer Award – India Choquette and Corinne Shearer