The Comparative Literature Graduate Committee has split this year’s Cook Prize and awarded it jointly to Comp Lit PhD student, Layl Andary, for his essay "Life on Stilts: Comedy, Laughter and Mechanicity in Marcel Proust’s A la recherche du temps perdu," and to English PhD student, Jack Quirk, for his essay, "Literary Entitlement."

The Albert Spaulding Cook Prize is to be awarded annually to a graduate student in any department at Brown for an unpublished, article-length essay on a topic that falls under the rubric of comparative literature defined broadly, which is ready for submission to a scholarly journal.  The comparatist perspective may be exemplified through cultural/linguistic juxtapositions, methodological crossovers, and/or interdisciplinary issues among other approaches.

Congratulations to Layl and Jack for this great achievement!