Comparative Literature Department
Departmental Graduate Student Awards
Graduate Office (812)855-9602
The Comparative Literature Deparment awards three yearly prizes to recognize:
- an outstanding teacher
- the best Masters Project
- the best graduate student paper written for a Comparative Literature course
- the best presentation
Award for Distinguished Teaching
Since 1977, the Department has given a special award to an Associate Instructor upon the recommendations of the A.I. Committee, in recognition of excellence in classroom teaching. It is hoped that this award will serve to reinforce the high quality of instruction rendered by graduate students.
Since 1969, the Comparative Literature Department has awarded the Tutungi Prize for the best Master's Project submitted each year. The Tutungi Prize would not be conferred on a Master's Essay or Project which in an earlier version had won the Newton Stallknecht Prize. There would be no restriction on the same student winning the Gilbert V. Tutungi Prize for a paper or project different from the submission which had earlier won the Stallknecht Prize. The prize is named in honor of the late Gilbert V. Tutungi, who received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at Indiana University.
Newton P. Stallknecht Memorial Essay Prize
In 1981, friends of Newton P. Stallknecht established this award in his memory. Professor Stallknecht (1906-1981) began teaching at Indiana University in 1949. He served as Chair of the Philosophy Department and as Director of the School of Letters, and was a Professor in the Comparative Literature Department from its inception. He officially retired in 1977, but continued to teach for another three years, while his health permitted it. The prize is awarded each spring for the best essay written during the preceding calendar year by a graduate student in a Comparative Literature course. A student need not be a Comparative Literature major to be eligible for the prize. There should be no restriction on the same student who had won the Stallknecht Prize in a previous year from winning it again for another paper. Nominations are solicited from the faculty; interested students should consult with the appropriate faculty member, or with the Chair of the Department.
The Clifford C. Flanigan Memorial Colloquium Prize
In 1995 the friends of Clifford C. Flanigan established this prize in his memory. Clifford Flanigan (1941-1993) began teaching in the Comparative Literature Program at Indiana University in 1973. He was the Department's main specialist in drama and medieval studies and a distinguished member of the Institute for Medieval Studies. The prize honors the best presentation given by a student in Comparative Literature in the Clifford C. Flanigan Memorial Colloquia Series organized by the Student Advisory Board.
