Congratulations to the winners of the 2017 Stanley Clayes Memorial Essay Competition!
First Place went to Mary Lutze, for her essay "Advancing Accessibility: The 'Radical Deaf Theatre' of Aaron Sawyer's The Vineyard." This essay also won the Anthony Ellis Award for the best graduate student essay for the .
Second place was awarded to Danielle Richards, for her essay "Tyranny and Bestial Barbarity in Windsor-Forest."
The essays were judged by the faculty of the Committee on Graduate Programs. Submissions were read 鈥渂lind鈥�; i.e., the identities of the authors were not disclosed to the judges. In the first round of judging, no professor read a paper that was written for his or her own course.
Congratulations to our winners on their excellent work!