TransCanada Institute Award for Best Graduate Essay in SETS
TransCanada Institute Essay Prize
$500
The TransCanada Institute Essay Prize seeks to recognize notable scholarship from a wide range of critical perspectives that impinges on the areas of Canadian literature and/or theories of diaspora, Indigenous, postcolonial, and global studies.
All graduate students in SETS are eligible for this prize, but must be nominated by their graduate instructors and or supervisors. Nominated essays must make an original and rigorous argument that engages with the literature in the fields listed above, and must be theoretically sophisticated and elegantly written.
Nominated students must submit three copies of their essay to the Institute's Director, along with a nomination form signed by their instructor, by April 15th. Students may have more than one essay nominated in a given year.
Nominated essays will be vetted by the Institute's Director and two members of its Advisory Board.
Whenever possible, each year's winner will be invited to present her/his winning essay at a public lecture organized by the Institute.