This news just in from Gwen Bergner:
"I am very happy to announce that our own PhD student Amanda Bailey
has won the Society for Comparative Literature and the Arts (SCLA)
Rutledge prize for graduate student writing for her paper 'Necessary
Narration in Their Eyes Were Watching God.' She has been invited to submit it for consideration for publication in SCLA's journal The Comparatist."
Congratulations, Amanda!