Literary Insight Award

The Literary Insight Award was created to support students majoring or minoring in English.

Open to students who meet the following requirements:

  • Undergraduate: Junior or Seniors; or, Graduate: classified, unclassified, and 2nd bachelor degree
  • Must be majoring, minoring in English, or working toward a master
  • Minimum GPA: 3.0
  • Enrollment must be full-time at the time of application and at the time of award

Supplemental requirement:

1. Please choose one of the following novels to write about:
  • Gabriel García Márquez: One Hundred Years of Solitude (Colombia)
  • Franz Kafka: The Trial(Czechoslovakia)
  • Franz Kafka: The Castle (Czechoslovakia)
  • Franz Kafka: The Metamorphosis (Czechoslovakia)
  • Milan Kundera: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Czechoslovakia)
  • Andre Gide: The Immoralist (France)
  • Madame de La Fayette: The Princess of Cleves (France)
  • Marcel Proust: Swann’s Way (France)
  • Stendhal: The Red and the Black (France)
  • Hermann Hesse: Steppenwolf (Germany)
  • Thomas Mann: Death in Venice (Germany)
  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faust (Germany)
  • Homer: Iliad (Classical Greece)
  • Nikos Kazantzakis: The Last Temptation of Christ (Greece)
  • Fyodor Dostoevsky: The Idiot (Russia)
  • Fyodor Dostoevsky: The Brothers Karamazov (Russia)
  • Ivan Turgenev: Fathers and Sons (Russia)
  • Leo Tolstoy: Anna Karenina (Russia)
  • Leo Tolstoy: The Death of Ivan Ilych (Russia)
  • Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: The First Circle (Russia)
  • Miguel de Cervantes: Don Quixote (Spain)
  • Miguel de Unamuno: Saint Manuel El Bueno (Spain)
2. Once you have selected a novel, please write and submit an essay with a minimum length of 1200 words.

Award
Varies
Scopes
English
Deadline
03/02/2025
Supplemental Questions
  1. Literacy Insight Award
    • 1. Please choose one of the following novels to write about:
    • 2. Once you have selected a novel, please write and submit an essay with a minimum length of 1200 words.