English Department Undergrad Students Earn University and Departmental Awards

(Pictured, L to R: Jewls Douge, Erik T Jones, Linfeng Li, Jordan Castaldo, Paige Neal, Lakota Levandowski, Mairead Abbenda, Xavier Fitzsimmons Cruz)

Undergraduate students of the Department of English earned both University and Departmental Awards.

Winners of the Undergraduate Awards

Department Awards

  • The Vivian Hopkins Award - Erik T. Jones 
  • The Berman Award - Paige Neal 
  • The Arlene Steinberg Award - Jordan Castaldo 
  • The Leah Lovenheim Award - Mairead Abbenda, for “Crimson Child”
    • Honorable mention: Calvin Giudici, for “Patient on this Tall Pillar”
  • The Shields McIlwaine Award - Lakota Levandowski, for “Recollections from the ‘Puddle’ of Upstate New York aka Binghamton” 
    • Honorable mention - Kayla Carter, for “Harlem (after Miguel Pinero)” 

University Awards

  • Presidential Award for Undergraduate Research - Kaya Carvajal, for “Postcolonial Studies, Climate Change, and Science Fiction:  A Study of James Vandermeer's Southern Trilogy.”
  • Presidential Award for Undergraduate Research - Xavier Fitzsimmons Cruz, for “Literary Guerillas: Understanding Nuyorican nationhood.”
  • Alumni Association Albert Husted Scholarship - Linfeng Li, for planning for full-time graduate study in any area of study at UAlbany or any other accredited university.
  • The 2022 Situation Prize for Research (CURCE) - Jewls Douge, for the independent food vlog and website project Beber's Hungry, on food culture in the Bronx.

(Pictured, L to R: Jewls Douge, Erik T Jones, Linfeng Li, Jordan Castaldo, Paige Neal, Lakota Levandowski, Mairead Abbenda, Xavier Fitzsimmons Cruz)