K-SAA Essay Prize

“On the Origins of the Witness-Protagonist,” Modern Language Quarterly 85:2 (June 2024), 151-176.

Honorable Mention: Atesede Makonnen, “Romanticism and the Novel(ty) of Race,” in The Cambridge Companion to Romanticism and Race, edited by Manu Chander (Cambridge University Press, 2024), 186-203.

"Reading by Firefly.” Studies in Romanticism, Vol 62, number 1, Spring 2023: 77-102.

Honorable Mention: Eric Tyler Powell, “Form, History and the Politics of Lyric in Shelley’s ‘Ode to the West Wind,’” ELH, Vol 90, Issue 3, (2023) 723-765.

“Unavowed Community in Kleist’s Betrothal in San Domingo.” Haïti’s Literary Legacies: Romanticism and the Unthinkable Revolution, edited by Deborah Elise and Kir Kuiken, Bloomsbury, 2022, 117-140.

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Celeste Langan: “Repetition Run Riot: Refrains, Slogans, and Graffiti,” Wordsworth Circle, Spring 2021.

Padma Rangarajan ‘”With a Knife at One’s Throat’: Irish Terrorism in The O’Briens and the O’Flahertys,” Nineteenth-Century Literature, December 2020.

“Remembrance and Remediation: Mediating Disability and Literary Tourism in the Romantic Archive,” Studies in Romanticism 59.1 (2020): 85-108.

“John Clare and the Language of Listening,” Romanticism 26.2 (2020), 153-67.

‘Percy Shelley’s Touch; or, Lyric Depersonalization’, Modern Philology 117.1 (2019), 91-114.

“A Poetics of Ether,” European Romantic Review 29.3 (2018), 389-98.

“Reading the Red Bull Sublime,” PMLA 132.3 (2017), 543-57.

“Race, Writing, and Don Juan,” Studies in Romanticism 54.3 (Fall 2015), 303-328.

“Keats’s Ways: The Dark Passages of Mediation and Why He Gives Up Hyperion,” Studies in Romanticism 53.2 (Summer 2014), 171-194.

“Idleness and Vacancy in Shelley’s ‘Mont Blanc,’” Keats-Shelley Journal 62 (2013), 62-79.

“The Politics of Subreption: Resisting the Sublime in Shelley’s ‘Mont Blanc,’” Studies in Romanticism 52.2 (Summer 2013), 225-252.

Scott J. Juengel: “Mary Wollstonecraft’s Perpetual Disaster“

Rei Terada: “Hegel’s Bearings”

Both essays appeared in Romanticism and Disaster: A Romantic Circles Praxis Volume (January 2012).

“Shelley After Atheism,” Studies in Romanticism 49.4 (Winter 2010), 611-632.

“Romanticism, Psychoanalysis, and the Interpretation of Silence,” European Romantic Review 21.5 (October 2010), 653-672.

“Keats’s Death: Towards a Posthumous Poetics,” Studies in Romanticism 48.2 (Summer 2009), 321-48.

“John Clare’s Dark Ecology,” Studies in Romanticism 47.2 (Summer 2008), 179-93.

“‘What So Many Have Told, Who Would Tell Again?’: Romanticism and the Commonplaces of Rome,” European Romantic Review (December 2006).

“’A Dream of Murder’: The Fall of Robespierre and the Tragic Imagination,” Studies in Romanticism, 44: 4 (Winter 2005)

“‘I WANT a hero’: Advertising for an Epic Hero in Don Juan,” Studies in Romanticism 44.2 (Summer 2005).

“Everyday War” ELH 72.3 (2005), 605-33; and Jennifer Jones, “Sounds Romantic: the Castrato and English Poetics Around 1800,” in Romanticism and Opera, ed. Gillen D’Arcy Wood, Romantic Circles Praxis (May 2005).

“Coming Attractions: Lamia and Cinematic Sensation,” Studies in Romanticism 42.4 (Winter 2003), 461-500.

“‘Cortez–or Balboa, or Somebody Like That’: Form, Fact, and Forgetting in Keats’s ‘Chapman’s Homer’ Sonnet.” Keats-Shelley Journal 51 (2002), 35-75.

“Keats’s Nausea,” Studies in Romanticism 40 (2001); Honorable Mention: Andrew Elfenbein, “Byron and the Fantasy of Compensation,” European Romantic Review 12.3 (Summer 2001).

“Thieves, Boxers, Sodomites, Poets: Being Flash to Byron’s Don Juan” PMLA 116.3 (May 2001), 562-78; runner-up: Deidre Lynch, “Gothic Libraries and National Subjects” Studies in Romanticism 40.1 (Spring 2001), 29-48.

“Receiving the Legend, Rethinking the Writer: Letitia Landon and the Poetess Tradition,” in Romanticism and Women Poets: Opening the Doors of Reception, ed. Harriet Kramer Linkin and Stephen C. Behrendt. (Lexington, KY: UP of Kentucky, 1999): 242-59.

“‘Stones so wondrous cheap'” Studies in Romanticism 37.1 (Spring 1998), 43-62.

“Writing on the Border: the National Tale, Female Writing, and the Public Sphere,” in Romanticism, History, and the Possibility of Genre, ed. Tilottama Rajan and Julia Wright (CUP, 1998).

“Literature Species: Populations, ‘Humanities,’ and Frankenstein” ELH 63.4 (Winter 1996), 959-88.

“Forever Young: Master Betty and the Queer State of Youth in English Romanticism,” South Atlantic Quarterly 95.3 (summer 1996), 575-603.

“Sexual Politics and Literary History: William Hazlitt’s Keswick Escapade and Sarah Hazlitt’s Journal,” in At the Limits of Romanticism: Essays in Cultural, Feminist, and Materialist Criticism, ed. Mary A. Favret and Nicola J. Watson (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana UP, 1994), 125-42.

Jerome Christensen: “The Romantic Movement at the End of History,” Critical Inquiry (Spring 1994), 452-76;

Neil Fraistat: “Illegitimate Shelley: Radical Piracy and the Textual Edition as Cultural Performance,” PMLA (May 1994), 409-23.

“Farming on Foot: Tracking Georgic in Clare and Wordsworth,” Texas Studies in Literature and Language 34 (Winter 1992), 509-40.

“Keats’s ‘Realm of Flora,'” Studies in Romanticism 31.1 (Spring 1992), 71-98.

“Keats Reading Women, Women Reading Keats,” Studies in Romanticism 29.3 (Fall 1990), 341-370.

“The Social Other: Don Juan and the Genesis of the Self,” Mosaic 22.2 (1989), 29-48.

“Wollstonecraft and Godwin: Reading the Secrets of the Political Novel,” Studies in Romanticism 27.2 (Summer 1988), 221-251.

“‘Their she condition’: Cross-dressing and the Politics of Gender in Don Juan,” ELH 54.3 (Autumn 1987), 585-617.

“Keats’s Mental Stance,” Studies in Romanticism 26.1 (Spring 1987), 85-104.

“Shelley at Play: A Study of Sketch and Text in his Prometheus Notebooks,” The Huntington Library Quarterly 48.3 (Summer 1985), 211-255.