2021
Shinjini Chattopadhyay, “Towards a New Cosmopolitanism: Stranger Fetishism in the Works of Twenty-first Century Migrant Writers of Color in Ireland,” University of Notre Dame
Honorable Mention: Samantha Haddad, “‘Dark Beauties and Spicy Roses’: Race, Gender, and Cultural Production in the Rose of Tralee Pageant,” New York University
2020
Kelsey Rall, “Borderland Body: Liminal Spinsterhood and Anglo-Irish Anxiety in The Real Charlotte,” Vanderbilt University