Jessica König wins Essay Prize 2023

We warmly congratulate our student Jessica König and happily announce her paper on Herman Melville’s "Moby-Dick" as the winner of the Essay Prize for Papers in English and American Literatures 2023!

Ms. König's paper "Nature and its 'Larger, Darker, Deeper Part' – Negotiating Transcendentalism in Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick" has been selected in a blind review process for its excellent analysis of the novel's resistance to "absolute interpretation". We are happy to present Ms. König with a 30 Euro gift certificate from buchbar and thank our sponsor for their support.

 

An honorary mention goes out to Tanja Hemmann, whose paper "The Immigrant Woman’s Body. Female Characters in a Nativist World in Maggie: A Girl of the Streets" is the runner-up in this year's competition.