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2024 Essay Contest

Winning Entries


Topic: Jane Austen's Novels: Still Relevant after 200 Years?

In a formal debate, both sides of a “resolution” are presented. For this year's contest, students were asked to debate both sides of the following statement in their essays: Resolved, that Jane Austen’s novels are still relevant and speak to us after 200 years. In the first part of the essay, they were instructed to attack this claim and in the second part defend it. High school students were required to cite at least one novel; undergraduate and graduate students were expected to cite at least two.

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ESSAY CONTEST COMMITTEE


Meg Levin, Chair
Carol Moss


ESSAY CONTEST JUDGES


Patricia Ard
College of New Jersey
Mahwah, NJ

Pauline Beard
Pacific University (emerita),
Forest Grove, OR

Rosa Beyer
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL

Courtney O. Carlisle

Jessica Connolly
Trinity College
Dublin, Ireland

MarJean Corkran
Enterprise State Community College
Enterprise, AL

Kara Schaff Dean

Rebecca Duncan

Susan Durst
Boise Public Schools (retired)
Boise, ID

Judith Elson

Rose Engelfried

Julianna Scott Fein

Norah Glickstein
McMaster University
Hamilton, ON

Kathleen Hohenleitner
University of Central Florida
Orlando, FL

Sabina Hollis

Jeanie Lewis
Loyola University
Chicago, IL

Thomas McLaughlin

Stephanie Oppenheim
City University of New York
New York, NY

Alex Andy Phuong

Elizabeth Gilliland Rands
Luke’s Episcopal School
Mobile, AL

Paul Savidge

Taya Sazama
University of South Dakota
Vermillion, SD

Sue Scott
Wake County Library
Raleigh NC

Sarah Shepherd

Amy Stallings
College of William and Mary 
Williamsburg, VA

Katie Sweeting

Alisa Thomas
Toccoa Falls College
Toccoa Falls, GA

Brian Troester

Judith Umbach
University of Calgary
Calgary, AB

Constance Vidor

Susan Weisgrau
Akiba Hebrew Academy (retired)
Bryn Mawr, PA

Elizabeth Williams

Fran Winter

 
ESSAY CONTEST SCREENERS


Maria Clara Pivato Biajoli

Judith Brey

Debbie Carroll

Donald Comras

Linda Dennery

Renata Dennis

Natalie S. Goldberg

Sheila Hagerty

Deanna Heikkinen

Kalee Lineberger

Kelly McDonald

Erica Obey

Keiko Parker

Alex Andy Phuong

Anne Silverstein

Elsa Solender

Katie Sweeting

Julieta Velazquez

Constance Vidor

Fran Winter