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Congratulations to the winners of the 2024 Department of English Undergraduate Awards
Congratulations to the below students who won or were highly recommended for the Department of English Undergraduate Awards 2024. Well done on your fantastic work!
The Patricia Coughlan Award
Winner
Name: Shane Seamus McCormack
Essay Title: “‘A Couple of Pretty Smooth Citizens’: Gender and Sexuality in Raymond Chandler’s The Big Sleep”
Module/Lecturer: EN3003 Five Great Detectives/Mary O’Connell
Highly Recommended
Name: Aislinn Katherine Healy
Essay Title: “Womanly Men and Manly Women: Masculinity and Femininity in Ben Jonson’s Epicoene”
Module/Lecturer: EN2080 Introduction to Renaissance Literature/Edel Semple
Highly Recommended
Name: Vinca Hernandez
Essay Title: “Female Friendship in A Midsummer Night’s Dream”
Module/Lecturer: EN3107 Studies in Shakespeare/Edel Semple
Highly Recommended
Name: Abbie O’Brien O’Driscoll
Essay Title: “‘Nasty sluttish animals’ and ‘hermaphroditical authority’: Unnatural Practices of Femininity in Ben Jonson’s Epicoene”
Module/Lecturer: EN2080 Introduction to Renaissance Literature/Edel Semple
Department of English Undergraduate Awards (2nd Year)
Joint Winner
Name: Tomás Flynn
Essay Title: “Sakaki and Synder”
Module/Lecturer: EN2003 A Beat Bazaar/Elisa Sabbadin
Joint Winner
Name: Katie Doyle
Essay Title: “The Representation and Performance of Gender in Ben Jonson’s Epicoene”
Module/Lecturer: EN2080 Introduction to Renaissance Literature/Edel Semple
Highly Recommended
Name: Abbie O’Brien O’Driscoll
Essay Title: “‘They’re just boys. Morsels. We have all the power’: Subversion of Femininity and Constructions of the Monstrous Feminine in Jennifer’s Body (2009)”
Module/Lecturer: EN2003 American Horror Stories/Miranda Corcoran
Department of English Undergraduate Awards (3rd Year)
Winner
Name: Sydney Marhefsky
Essay Title: “Violence and Queer Embodiment in On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, Stone Butch Blues, and Detransition, Baby”
Module/Lecturer: EN3003 Queer Kinship in Contemporary Literature/Liz Quirke
Highly Recommended
Name: Marian Stout
Essay Title: “Landscapes, Architecture and the Act of Return in Sir Orfeo and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”
Module/Lecturer: EN3003 Tolkien’s Middle English/Ken Rooney
The Louise Clancy Memorial Prize
Winner
Name: Luke Condon
Dissertation Title: “Fantasies of Capital and Power in Contemporary Video Games”
Highly Recommended
Name: Luca Cavallo
Dissertation Title: “‘A fellow that’s neither fish nor flesh’: Renouncing Masculinity in James Joyce’s Ulysses”
Supervisor: Heather Laird
Highly Recommended
Name: Julian Di Prima
Dissertation Title: “Monsters and Masters: A Study of Hegel’s Master/Slave Dialectic in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Bram Stoker’s Dracula”
Supervisor: Lee Jenkins
The Éamonn Ó Carragáin Prize
This prize is for outstanding undergraduate work in Old English.
Winner: Michael Daly