Classics major wins prize from Program in Comparative Literature

4.20.21

Senior Classics major Elena Steiert has been selected as the 2021 recipient of the Emma Kafalenos Prize, awarded for an outstanding undergraduate honors thesis in the Program in Comparative Literature. Elena recently defended her thesis “Ariadne as Heteropessimist: Finding Queer Futures in the Poetry of Catullus, H.D., and Analicia Sotelo,” directed by Tim Moore. (For the abstract, see the Comparative Literature website.)

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