This year’s Sherry Clarkson Prize for the best graduate student paper delivered at the 2021 RAW Conference goes to Shivika Mathur for her paper “Practical in the Extreme”: Hyperbole and (Dis)enchantment in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper.”
Shivika is a literature Ph.D. student and TA, teaching Rhetoric 1302. Her presentation, ‘“Practical in the Extreme:” Hyperbole and (Dis)enchantment in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper,’” was chosen, in part, for “clarity and originality of its argument, especially in revisiting a text that has a very well-developed interpretive literature surrounding it.”