The TransCanada Institute Graduate Essay Prize ($500)
SETS Graduate instructors and supervisors are invited to nominate their graduate students’ essays that fit the mandate of the award as described below.
Calendar Description: To recognize research excellence, The TransCanada Institute Graduate Essay Prize recognizes notable scholarship which investigates postcolonial and diaspora theories, especially in relation to, though not exclusively about, Canadian literature and as such has provided a $500 prize annually. All graduate students in SETS are eligible and the selection will be made based on the quality of an essay as demonstrated by its original and methodological treatment of its subject and submitted by the student’s graduate adviser or graduate instructor. Submissions should be forwarded in writing to the Dean of by April 30 by a student’s graduate instructor or supervisor along with three copies of the chosen essay.
Deadline: April 30
Process: After the nominated essays are submitted to the Dean of Arts Office, they will be assessed by the SETS Awards Committee, and a shortlist will be submitted to the COA Awards Committee for the final decision. The winner is announced in the fall of the new academic year.
TransCanada Institute Best Graduate Essay Winners:
2012 – Marcelle Kosman. “Only a Matter of Time: Technology, Wealth, and Apocalypse in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead.”
2011 – Paul Watkins. “Listening to a Listening.”
2010 – Hannah McGregor. “Nurturing Race, Naturalizing Privilege: Nation and Familial Pedagogy in Carol Shield’s Unless.”