The A.I. Award for Distinguished Teaching has been given each year since 1977 to an Associate Instructor, in recognition of excellence in classroom teaching. The A.I. Committee confers the award to recognize and reinforce the high quality of instruction rendered by graduate students.

Since 1969, the Department of Comparative Literature has awarded the Tutungi Prize for the best Master’s Project submitted in the previous calendar year. The prize is named in honor of the late Gilbert V. Tutungi, who received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at Indiana University.

The Tutungi Prize may not be conferred on a master’s essay or project that in an earlier version had won the Newton Stallknecht Prize. There is no restriction on the same student winning the Gilbert V. Tutungi Prize for a paper or project different from the submission that had earlier won the Stallknecht Prize.

In 1981, friends of Newton P. Stallknecht established this award in his memory. Professor Stallknecht (1906-1981) began teaching at Indiana University in 1949. He served as chair of the Philosophy department and as director of the School of Letters, and was a professor in the Comparative Literature department from its inception. He officially retired in 1977, but continued to teach for another three years, while his health permitted it.

The prize is awarded each spring for the best essay written during the preceding calendar year by a graduate student in a Comparative Literature course. A student need not be a Comparative Literature major to be eligible for the prize. There should be no restriction on the same student who has won the Stallknecht Prize in a previous year from winning it again for another paper.

In 1995 the friends of C. Clifford Flanigan established this prize in his memory. Clifford Flanigan (1941-1993) began teaching in the Comparative Literature Program at Indiana University in 1973. He was the Department’s main specialist in drama and medieval studies and a distinguished member of the Institute for Medieval Studies.

The prize honors the best presentation given by a student in Comparative Literature in the C. Clifford Flanigan Memorial Colloquia Series organized by the Student Advisory Board.

The Annie Geduld Memorial Prize

In 1992, Harry M. Geduld established this award in memory of Annie Geduld. The prize is given in alternate years to an outstanding graduate or undergraduate student in the Comparative Arts component of the Comparative Literature program.

The Wertheim Award in Comparative Drama

The Wertheim Awards in Comparative Drama were established by the family and friends of Albert Wertheim in 2016. The awards honor Professor Wertheim, an internationally recognized drama scholar and devoted teacher, who taught at IU from 1969 until his death in 2003 and held appointments in the Departments of English, Comparative Literature, and Theatre and Drama. Each year, the Department of Comparative Literature confers undergraduate and graduate awards for the best papers about drama submitted to Comparative Literature courses.

The Ilinca Zarifopol-Johnston Award

The Ilinca Zarifopol-Johnston Award is given in honor of the life of Professor Zarifopol-Johnston, an accomplished translator, scholar, and teacher who earned her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and then taught in the department from the 1990’s until her death in 2005.

The award is given in alternate years to a graduate or an undergraduate student, chosen on the basis of GPA, breadth of interests, originality, academic and/or creative achievement, and overall promise.