Pitt Undergraduate Honored With 2008 Carol Gay Award
PITTSBURGH—University of Pittsburgh senior Paige Carlson has won the 2008 Carol Gay Award, a national prize given annually by the Children's Literature Association (ChLA) for the best undergraduate paper on children's literature. The winning paper "Harry Panoptic: The Boy Who Saw," was nominated by Pitt professor of English Lori Campbell.
A panel of three judges noted that they were most impressed with the originality and ambition of the piece, and that the use of an unusual approach enabled Carlson to say something new about the Harry Potter series.
As part of her award, Carlson will present the paper at the ChLA's 2008 conference at Illinois State University in Normal, Ill., June 12-14. She also will receive a complimentary one-year membership in the ChLA and a cash award.
This will be the second consecutive year that a Pitt student has won the award. In 2007, Carolyn Blythe Giles won with her paper "Perpetuating Inequality Through Special Education in Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key."
The ChLA is a nonprofit organization devoted to promoting serious scholarship and high standards of criticism in children's literature.
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