Marvin Fisher Book Award

The Marvin Fisher Book Award is given biannually to an international student enrolled in a graduate program in the Department of English. The award is $250 and is to be used for the purchase of books needed by the applicant.

Criteria: Recipient must be an international student currently enrolled in the Department of English. Recipient must have at least a 3.00 GPA.

Application: Upload one PDF document containing a letter of application. a biographical sketch of no more than 250 words, substantiating academic needs and suggested list of books, and one letter of recommendation from a professor who can comment on the student's work and book list.

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Deadlines: Oct. 15 for the spring award and February 1 for the fall award

Previous Recipients:

Fall 2025: Shahzadi Laibah Burq
Spring 2025: Xueyi Yuan
Fall 2024: [No award given]
Spring 2024: [No award given]
Fall 2023: Mikhail Zaikovskii

Spring 2023: Mohadeseh Mousazadeh Miandehi

Fall 2022: Rhys Hughes

Fall 2021: Mohammed Iddrisu
Spring 2021: Leila Gholami

Fall 2020: Avrajit Dey
Spring 2020: Melika Nouri

Fall 2019: Aaron Agorsor

Spring 2019: Narin Loa

Fall 2018: Ibrahim Alaswad

Spring 2018: Hae Ryun Park

Fall 2017: Mekhlid Alsaeedi
Fall 2016: Haroon Alsager

Spring 2016: Cristina Duculescu

Spring 2015: Myungsung Kim

Fall 2014: Hye Kyung Lee

Spring 2014: Youngwha Lee

Fall 2013: Shertock Lama

Spring 2013: Seong-Hoon Kim

Fall 2012: Shertock Lama

Spring 2011: Tyai-Min Wu

Fall 2010: Ahmed Gul

Spring 2010: Chung Chien "Karen" Chang

Fall 2009: Phumnat Julnipitawong

Spring 2009: Anita Chaudhuri

Fall 2008: Subrata Bhowmik

Spring 2008: Tanita Saenkhum

Fall 2007: Seungyeon Lee

Spring 2007: Yi-Ting Chen

Fall 2006: Hui-Ling Yang

Spring 2006: Hui-Ling Yang

Fall 2005: Carol Mejia-LaPerle

Spring 2005: Ho-Jung Yu

Fall 2004: Ebru Erdem & Nina Sabolik

Spring 2004: Chen-Chen Sun