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.
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 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
Spring 2021: Leila Gholami
Fall 2020: Avrajit Dey
Spring 2020: Melika Nouri
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
Fall 2016: Haroon Alsager
Spring 2016: Cristina Duculescu
Spring 2015: Myungsung Kim
Falll 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