Notable

The Guilford Essay Prize Committee has announced the winners of the Guilford Prize ($600) for the best-written dissertations for 1999 and for 2000. Josephine (Jody) Greene, Ph.D. '98, won the 1999 prize for her dissertation, "Pleading the Body." The co-winners ($300 each) for the best-written dissertation submitted in 2000 are Mark Hazard, Ph.D. '99, for "The Literal Sense and the Visionary Foundation of Experience in Late Medieval Commentary and Literature," and Carol Acree Cavalier, Ph.D. 2000, for "Reading Literature with Prayer: The Uses of Milton and Bunyan in 18th-Century Anglo-American Devotional Practice." The Guilford Prize is awarded annually to the student whose doctoral thesis exhibits, in the opinion of a committee appointed by the chair of the Department of English, the highest standard of excellence in English prose. Faculty members nominate theses for judging by the prize committee, and students are encouraged to submit their own dissertations.