Awards and Fellowships Recipients
Book Awards
- 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
- Beth Capo won the Women's Caucus Essay Award for "Can This Marriage Be Saved?:
Birth Control and Marriage in Modern American Literature."
- Elizabeth Abele was awarded as first runner-up for the Women's Caucus Essay Award for
her essay, "The Open Range: Jane Smiley Reclaims the Feminine Western
Tradition."
- Lisa Perdigao won the 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, won the 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, won the Gay and Lesbian Caucus
Essay Prize for "Teaching The Boys: Mart Crowley in the Millennial
Classroom."
- Elizabeth Fekete, Northwestern University, won the Graduate Student Caucus Essay Prize
for "Imagined Revolution: The Female Reader and The Wide, Wide World."
- Ruth Bienstock Anolik, Haverford College, won the 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, received an 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, won the 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"
- Basker, James G. Fellowship: "Samuel Johnson and His American Readers"
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