Brandywine Penn State Undergrad Takes National Trollope Prize for Essay

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Image via Mike McDade, Penn State Brandywine.

Penn State Brandywine student Nyssa Fahy has won a national award for her essay on the works of novelist Anthony Trollope, writes Amber Marcon for Penn State News.

The Trollope Prize historically has gone to graduate and undergraduate students from places like Brown, Duke, Stanford, the College of William and Mary the University of Toronto.

Some years, no award is given if the submissions aren’t considered up to par.

But the judges were unanimous in selecting Fahy’s “sharp and sophisticated essay,” praising its deft handling of a complex range of materials.

Fahy is credited with “finding gold” where few other scholars have looked before. Her piece, “A Less Beaten Path: Hybridity and Naturalism in Anthony Trollope’s West Indian Short Fiction,” was described as fresh and timely in its discussion of race and colonialism.

“It gives you an utterly different lens. It’s something that had just been ignored and I wanted people to look at it,” said Fahy.

Beth Coggin Womack, Fahy’s adviser for the project, praised Fahy’s ability to suspend her own judgement, making her a great critic. It is an attribute not usually seen in an undergraduate classroom, she said.

Read more about Nyssa Fahy and the Trollope Prize here.

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