These prizes were instituted in 1908 by Professor Murray Anthony Potter in memory of his mother, Susan Anthony Potter, and endowed in 1957 through a bequest of his wife, Bessie Lincoln Potter. In Romance Languages and Literatures, two prizes are offered for the best essays on a subject dealing with Spanish literature of the Golden Age, i.e. Spanish and Hispanic American literature from 1492 to 1700: a first prize and a...
The Department of Romance Languages and Literatures will host a reading and Q&A with author André Aciman, on Wednesday, May 3, 6:00 PM, at the Yenching Auditorium (2 Divinity Ave)
André Aciman was born in Alexandria, Egypt, and is an American memoirist, essayist, novelist, and scholar of seventeenth-century literature. He is the New York Times bestselling author of Call Me by Your Name and Find Meas well as ofOut of Egypt...
By the gift of Philippe Belknap Marcou, of the Class of 1876, the Jeremy Belknap Prize Fund was established. The prize is awarded for the best writing sample in French completed for a course offered by the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures during the academic year.
Prize is open to current first-year students only.
Essay must have been written for a course offered by the Department of Romance...
by an Undergraduate Who Began the Study of Spanish at Harvard
From the bequest of Francis Sales, A.M. 1835, a prize is offered to the best scholar in Spanish "who shall have commenced the study of that language at Harvard College and whose scholarship shall be determined by his proficiency in Spanish composition." The competition is open to undergraduates only.