Queer Intersections Oxford | Winners of the Undergraduate and Postgraduate Essay Prizes 2023
Queer Intersections Oxford is delighted to announce the winners of its Undergraduate and Postgraduate Essay Prizes 2023
Queer Intersections Oxford is delighted to announce the winners of its Undergraduate and Postgraduate Essay Prizes 2023. Submissions were assessed on scholarly rigour and original contribution to the field, with the aim of promoting and rewarding thought-provoking writing across the broad field of LGBTIQA+ studies. We received a high number of entries this year, and the jury were incredibly impressed by the richness, boldness, and stylistic flair of the essays submitted. Thank you to everyone who entered the Prizes competition!
- Undergraduate Winner: Kit Thickett, ‘Notes for Women: The Voices of Suffrage and Sapphism in Ethel Smyth's Three Songs (1913)’.
- Undergraduate Highly Commended Essay: Gaia Clark Nevola,‘What Is Human, But Isn’t a Man? Androgynous Hybrids, “Othered” Sphinxes and Queer Riddles, in Early 20th Century Women Surrealists’.
- Postgraduate Winner: Lucinda Janson, ‘(W)holy Margery: Temporalities and Sexualities in The Book of Margery Kempe and Robert Glück’s Margery Kempe’.
- Highly Commended Essay: Annabel Rogers, ‘“The Imagined Power”: Genetically Reading the Queer Present Absence in Brokeback Mountain’.
Find out more about Queer Intersections Oxford Essay Prizes 2023 here.
