Awards and Fellowships Recipients

Book Awards

Kristin J. Jacobson, Stockton College: Domestic Geographies: Neodomestic American Fiction (now Neodomestic American Fiction details) (2009)
Erin Hurley, McGill University: National Mimesis: Figuring Performance-Nation Relations in Quebec (now National Performance: Representing Quebec from Expo 67 to Céline Dion) (2009)
Jennifer A. Zachman, Saint Mary’s College: Playing Gender on the Contemporary Spanish Stage
Julia M. Wright, Wilfrid Laurier University: Blake, Nationalism and the Politics of Alienation
Michael West, University of Pittsburgh: Transcendental Wordplay: America’s Romantic Punsters and the Search for the Language of Nature (1999)
Elzbieta Sklodowska: Testimonio hispaniamericano (1991)
Tom Peterson: Paraphrase of an Imaginary Dialogue (1990)
Janet Groth, Plattsburgh State University of New York: Edmund Wilson: A Critic for Our Time (1988)

Paper Prizes

Shari Evans, University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth: 2007 Women’s Caucus Essay Award for “Fortress, Haven, Home: Programmed Space, Themed Space, and the Ethics of Home in Toni Morrison’s Paradise.”
Lynn Johnson, Dickinson College: First runner up for the 2007 Women’s Caucus Essay Award for “Traversing the Oceanic: The Garret as a Vehicle of Transport in Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861).”
Stephanie Harzewski, University of Pennsylvania: 2006 Women’s Caucus Essay Award for “A New Bildungsroman: Chick Lit Authors and Their Characters.”
Beth Capo: 2005 Women’s Caucus Essay Award for “Can This Marriage Be Saved?: Birth Control and Marriage in Modern American Literature.”
Katsura Sako, University of Warwick: 2006 Graduate Student Paper Prize for “A. S. Byatt’s ‘Half-Resurrection’ in Possession: A Romance.”
Elizabeth Abele: First runner-up for the 2005 Women’s Caucus Essay Award for her essay, “The Open Range: Jane Smiley Reclaims the Feminine Western Tradition.”
Lisa Perdigao: Graduate Student Paper Prize for “Dismembered Muse: Seamus Heaney’s ‘The Golden Bough,’ ‘The Cure At Troy,’ and ‘Mycenae Lookout.’”
Ruth Bienstock Anolik, Haverford College: Women’s Caucus Essay Award for “The Missing Mother: Negotiations of Motherhood in the Gothic Mode.”
Catherine Golden, Skidmore College: “Late-Twentieth-Century Readers in Search of a Dickensian Heroine: Angels, Fallen Sisters, and Eccentric Women.”
Dr. Michael R. Schiavi, New York Institute of Technology: Gay and Lesbian Caucus Essay Prize for “Teaching The Boys: Mart Crowley in the Millennial Classroom.”
Elizabeth Fekete, Northwestern University: Graduate Student Caucus Essay Prize for “Imagined Revolution: The Female Reader and The Wide, Wide World.”
Ruth Bienstock Anolik, Haverford College: Women’s Caucus Essay Prize for “Appropriating the Golem, Possessing the Dybbuk: Stories of Power and Creation by Jewish-American Women.”
Diane M. Garno, Wayne State University: Honorable Mention in the Women’s Caucus Essay Contest for “Elevating His Mistress to a Utopian Wife: Cabt and Denise in Icaria.”
Jonathan Greenberg, Princeton University: Graduate Student Caucus Essay Prize for “‘The Base Indian’ or ‘the Base Judean’?: Othello and the Metaphor of the Palimpsest in Salman Rushdie’s The Moor’s Last Sigh.”

Summer Research Fellowships

Christine Bayles Kortsch, University of Delaware: To conduct costume research in the UK for her study of dress-culture and social activism in late-Victorian novels.
Jeff Johnson, Brevard Community College: To continue research on a book project currently titled “New Baltic Theatre: Western Hegemony and Cultural Relevance in Post-Soviet Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.”
Neil Hultgren: For his project “Melodrama, Desire, and the Spoils of Late Nineteenth-Century British Imperialism.”
David Thiele: For research on his “Vulgarians at the Gate: Status, Culture, and Adult Education in Mid-Victorian Literature.”
Richard Fantina, Florida International University: For his project, “Ernest Hemingway: Machismo and Masochism.”
Jason Haslam, University of Notre Dame: For his edition of Constance Lytton’s Prisons and Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences (forthcoming from Broadview Press), and research for an online database of writings by nineteenth-century British and American prisoners.
Barton C. Keeton, James Madison University: For his project “Deus Absconditus: Medieval Mappamundi and the Disappearing Body of God.”
Dr. Robert M. Kachur, Western Maryland University: For his project, “Getting the Last Word: Victorian Women and the Apocalyptic Voice.”
Dennis Denisoff, Ryerson University: For a study of the correlations of criminality and sexuality in nineteenth-century popular literature, and to design a web-page of Victorian pulp.
William Alejandro Martin, McMaster University: For his project exploring literary methods for depicting trauma and shame in James, Woolf, Conrad, and Forster.
Robin Miskolcze, Vancouver, Canada
Paul Erickson, University of Pennsylvania

NeMLA and American Antiquarian Society Fellowships

Martha Elena Rojas, Stanford University: For “Diplomatic Letters: The Conduct and Culture of U.S. Foreign Affiars in the Early Republic”
Glenn Hendler, University of Notre Dame: For “Riot Acts: Race, Gender, and Public Violence in American Literature”
David Anthony, Southern Illinois U at Carbondale: For “White Collar Gothic: Debtor Masculinity, Submission, and the U.S. Bank in Antebellum America”
Lois Brown, Mt. Holyoke College: For “‘Made to Sell, Made to Save’: The Black Child in American Anti-Slavery Literature”
James G. Basker: “Fellowship: Samuel Johnson and His American Readers”

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