Photo of Dr. Alice Te Punga Somerville and Dr. Miguel Mota celebrating alongside the 2024/2025 undergraduate award winners for the UBC Department of English Language & Literatures.
Each year, the UBC Department of English Language & Literatures recognizes student academic achievements with awards based on academic merit and outstanding essays. Please join us in congratulating the 2024/2025 award winners!
“These students have done truly outstanding work, demonstrating impressive skill sets and such powerful insights into the ways that literature lives in constant dialogue and tension with the challenge of living in our moment. Our students share a genuine joy in their scholarly work and in the literary and language studies they pursue: it is exciting and deeply heartening to see these emerging thinkers of our future.”
– Dr. Tiffany Potter, Professor of Teaching
Avie Bennett Prize in Canadian Literature
Kaitlyn Chan
Betty Belshaw Memorial Prize
Maral Tabarmanaf
Carol Coates Literary Prize
Nathan Daykin
Craig W. Miller Prize in English
Ewan Keenan
David Macaree Prize in English
Megan Currie
English Honours Medal
David Collings
English Honours Prize
David Collings
George Woodcock Memorial Prize
Lynn Chen
Ira Dilworth Prize in English
Kiizh Erdrich
Jane Austen Society Prize
Meghan Prenter
Judy Brown Memorial Prize
Zachary Andrade
Lee Johnson English Honours Graduating Essay Prize
Sally Elhennawy
Manzalaoui Prize
Sloane Madden
Marc Beach English Honours Essay Prize
Sarah Louis
Mary Louise Stanwood Memorial Prize
Ridley Handley
Roy Daniells Memorial Prize
Wendy Chan
Jess Lee
Anna Pontin
William Robbins Memorial Prize
Kayla Smith
Here is a complete list of the scholarships, awards, and prizes available to students in the Department of English Language and Literatures:
