We are very pleased to announce the winners of the fourth annual French & Italian Studies Academic Awards! All students who have enrolled in a French & Italian Studies course during the 2023-2024 academic year were eligible to submit a final project completed in a FIS course. Examples of submissions could be translations, well-written and researched papers, or other creative projects that exhibit innovation (in any format or medium). A FIS faculty committee reviewed the submitted projects and made a selection of award winning projects to be honored and displayed on the FIS website. All prizes were supported by the generous donors of the Gloria and Daniel Woodward Endowed Fund.
All of the winning projects showed original thinking and excellent understanding of the material. The Department of French & Italian Studies would like to commend all of the students who submitted projects during this academic year. We would like to thank Associate Professor of Italian Susan Gaylard, Teaching Professor of French Hedwige Meyer, and Associate Professor of French Geoffrey Turnovsky for their efforts to evaluate and select our awards winners. Please find our prize winners and links to their projects below.
Graduate Award: Sarah-Kate Moore for her translation of the first five poems of Quebecois author Anne-Marie Desmeules' Le tendon et l'os.
Top Awards (no ranking, listed in alphabetical order):
Aries Chen for the translation of the Cahier des doléances du tiers Etat, de la Paroisse de Gonneville sur Dives.
Ania Tureczek for the creative reinterpretation of Elisée Reclus' "The Story of a Stream" in the style of Georges Perec.
Haylee Weisner for the translation of the short film Une Soirée Inoubliable.
Runners-up (no ranking, listed in alphabetical order):
Riley Rock for the translation of six letters written by Marie Antoinette during the French Revolution.
Lydia Tu for her essay discussing housing in the French banlieues, identifying how French banlieues have their roots in the French colonization of Algeria and mass immigration during the early to mid 20th century.
Acacia Zou for her hand-drawn French language comic completed for French 303.
Congratulations once again to the winners of this year's academic awards!