Harriet Gilliam Memorial Prize For best essay on Psychological interpretation of a literary text
2018-2019
Claire Pak "'Ghosts of the Past': Remembrance, Revenge and Delayed Mourning in Haider"
2017-2018
Claire Pak “On Mediating Absent Trauma”
2014-2015
Solveig Herzum "The Traumatic Experience: Trauma in A Passage to India, Freud, and Caruth"
2013-2014
Caroline Dean "Psychoanalyzing Superheroes: The Melancholy Wolverine"
Jessica Bickel-Barlow "A Comedy of Mourning"
2011-2012
Jessica Bickel-Barlow "The Sound and the Horror"
2010-2011
Katherine Defliese "Memoir as Therapy: Kathryn Harrison's The Kiss"
2009-2010
Madeline Weinstein "The 'World... Within Us': Rilke and Self as Other"
2008-2009
Kathrin Hanek "Narrating the Postmodern Self: A Psychological Analysis of Truth and Lying in Lauren Slater's Lying"
2006-2007
Jennifer Carmen "Conolanus and Othello: Tragic Heroes as Their Own Villains"
2005-2006
Rupali Sharma "On Making 'the Freedom of Existentialism' Accessible to Women"
2004-2005
Laura Selby "Variations on Motherhood: On the underlying similarities between Clare Gibson and Amelia Sedley"
2002-2003
Nicholas Soodik "Theorizing the Reverse Peephole: Cock-Eyed Images of Desire in Seinfeld , Speigel, and Shakespeare"