To: English
Department Graduate Students
From: Craig Bertolet,
Chair of Subcommittee on Graduate Awards
Date:
Re: Awards
Deadline for nominations and submissions:
Each Spring the English department presents the following awards
for its graduate students: a GTA
teaching award, a best conference
presentation award, a best
publication award, and one for the best
paper written in a graduate seminar.
Each of these awards will be presented at the spring graduate student
reception on Thursday 4 May at Pebble Hill.
Each award carries with it a $100.00 prize and a "suitable
commemorative object." The
generosity of individual donors sometimes allows us to augment the prize money
for these awards. Nominations for the GTA
teaching award are solicited from undergraduate students; nominations for
the best paper award are solicited
from graduate faculty, so you need not worry about either of these just yet.
However, you can participate in the process for the other awards as detailed
below. (If you are interested in all the
awards and the processes involved, please consult the Graduate Student Handbook
[29-30].)
One award each
will go to the Best Conference
Presentation and the Best
Publication by a graduate student. If you have an eligible presentation or
publication please submit it to me, as detailed in the procedures below, by
1. Best
Conference Presentation by a Graduate Student
Presentations must have been delivered at an externally
sponsored conference between 1 January and
• All authors of a
nominated presentation must have been
• All nominees
must have been
• In the case of joint
authorship by Auburn English graduate students, the award will be split among
the authors.
Please submit the
following:
• A copy of the presentation as delivered. A cover page should include the student's
name and the title of the presentation.
Subsequent pages should list only the title of the presentation and the
page number.
• A copy of the
conference program.
The CGS will
appoint a committee of three graduate faculty members, none of whom is the
major professor of any of the authors.
The presentations will be judged anonymously, and the results given to the CGS. Criteria for judging:
• Originality of conception
• Quality of
writing and research
• Contribution to
the field
• Level/prestige
of conference within the field.
If no outstanding
candidates emerge in a particular year, the award will not be given.
2. Best
Publication by a Graduate Student
• Eligible Publications: Articles,
books, poems, stories, chapters in books, edited collections, editions, or
other academic or creative publications, in print or on-line.
• Publications must have been accepted
through a refereed process between 1 January and
• All authors of a
nominated publication must have been
• In the case of joint
authorship by Auburn English graduate students, the award will be split among
the authors.
Please submit the following:
• A copy of the publication manuscript. A cover page should include the student's
name and the publication's title. The
student's name should be removed from subsequent pages.
• A copy of the
acceptance letter.
• Documentation that this is a
refereed publication.
The CGS will
appoint a committee of three graduate faculty members, none of whom is the
major professor of any of the authors.
The publication will be judged anonymously, and the results given to the CGS. Criteria for judging:
• Originality of conception
• Quality of
writing, and research and editing (if relevant)
• Contribution to
the field
• Level/prestige
of journal or press within the field.
If no outstanding candidates emerge in a particular year, the award will not be given.