Awards

There are many awards, bursaries, and prizes available to students in the Department of English Language & Literature. Some specific to particular programs, and some open to all students. Some of these awards require applications through the Student Awards office; for some, students are automatically considered for the award according to various eligibility requirements; two prizes require that students submit essays.

Award recipients

Congratulations to:

The Carole LaMothe English Essay Prize
Mia Smith, “I wish somebody would write me a loveletter”: An Analysis of Translation and Language’s Function and Significance in James Joyce’s Ulysses
Rose Divecha, “Micronarratives and Social Media: Was Rear Window the Precursor to Scrolling?”

The First-Year English Essay Prize
Audrey Gignac, “The Inevitability of Aging: Enjambment in “Sending My Mother Home After My Surgery”’
Cora Holt, “The Diseased Population”

Student awards

View a complete list of student awards available at Brock University.

You can search by selecting Humanities for Faculty and English Language and Literature for Department OR, for a slightly different selection of awards, simply choose
as keywords “English” and “Writing.”

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Competition awards

Please note that there are two awards for which the Department runs an annual competition:

Carole LaMothe Memorial English Essay Prize

The Carole LaMothe Memorial English Essay Prize is open to students in our department’s second-, third-, and fourth-year courses; students submit a marked copy of an essay from one of the courses they have taken to the Department for consideration (multiple entries are possible).

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First-Year English Essay Prize

The First-Year English Essay Prize is open to students in any of our first-year courses; students submit an essay from their first-year course to the contest.

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Look for announcements about the the Carole LaMothe Memorial English Essay Prize and the First-Year English Essay Prize in late March; the deadline for submissions is usually in late April or early May.