MIT Women's Studies
Kampf Writing Prize

Kampf Writing Prize

This writing prize, sponsored by The Program in Women's Studies, was started in 1995-96 both to honor Louis Kampf, distinguished professor emeritus of Literature and Women's Studies, and to reward high quality undergraduate writing in women's and gender studies. The Prize is judged by faculty from the Program in Women's Studies and from Writing and Humanistic Studies.

Rules for Entries

Cover Sheet


Past Recipients

Year Person Work
2007 Susan Wilson "Speaking Unspeakable Thoughts and Breaking Invisible Barriers: Motherhood and Language in 'As I Lay Dying' and 'Beloved'"
2006 Aayesha Siddiqui "Gendered performance and systems of knowledge/power: A Foucauldian analysis"
2005 Faye Kasemset "Strange Bedfellows: Woolf's Feminism and Strindberg's Misogyny."
2005 Jocelyn Rodal "Clementine"
2004 Elizabeth Boyle "The Feminization of Teaching in America"
2003 Heather Fireman "The Dark Past Keeps Returning: Gender Themes in Neo-Noir"
2003 Annemarie Sheets "Has Feminism Changed Science? A Biological Perspective"
2002 Marion Jones "Trial and Imprisonment"
2002 Winnie Yang "Across-the-Bridge Noodles"
2001 Sondra Miles "The Missing Heroine: Women in Early Westerns"
2001 Vis Taraz "Kiss"
2000 Rebecca Loh "Ordinary"
2000 Megan Galbraith "The Shadow Woman: Who is Mary Gordon?"
1998 Rita Leung "A Figure in Steam and Smoke"
1997 Lily Koo "Interrupted Beginning"
1996 Marwan M. Kazimi "Depression and Gender"
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