K-SAA Awards 2019-20
We're delighted to share with you details of the scholars recognised at the Annual K-SAA Awards. The winners were announced at MLA 2020 in Seattle earlier this month.
2019 Recipients of the Distinguished Scholar Award of the Keats-Shelley Association of America 2019 (awarded Seattle MLA 2020)
Sonia Hofkosh and Kate Singer Presiding (in Neil Fraistat's unavoidable absence):
- Mary Favret (presented by Julie Carlson)
- Duncan Wu (presented by Susan Wolfson via Charles Mahoney)
Winner of the 2019 K-SAA Essay Prize:
Winners of the 2020 Carl H. Pforzheimer, Jr., Research Grants
Deven Parker received her Ph.D. from the University of Colorado, Boulder, last spring, and she is currently expanding and revising her dissertation for a book project called Revolutions in Communication: The Politics of Mediation in Romantic Literature. In it, she will scrutinize a variety of English communication networks from the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, contending that these networks operated as sites of political power and surveillance as well as disruption and resistance. The grant will fund her research at the National Archives, British Postal Museum, and other locations, where she hopes to explore papers relevant to transatlantic packet networks and the Pitt administration’s development of the optical telegraph.Samantha Nystrom is a doctoral candidate at the University of Delaware. Her dissertation, Constructing Locality: Rooting Nineteenth-Century British Novels in Garden Culture, will argue that gardens and novels intersect as ways of configuring and conceiving of a larger British community. In a chapter that discusses Scott’s Waverley, she explores how Scott’s appropriation of material from a twelfth-century abbey for his Abbotsford garden has meaningful parallels in his literary project. The grant will fund fieldwork at Abbotsford and Melrose Abbey as well as research at the Scottish National Library and Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Congratulations to all!