K-SAA’s 2025 Distinguished Scholars
Each year the K-SAA Board seeks to recognize and honor scholars whose work has significantly shaped conversations in the field and helped to set the agenda for its future.
We are excited to announce this year’s Distinguished Scholars: Judith Pascoe and Kelvin Everest. Please congratulate them and join us our MLA Awards dinner on Saturday, January 11th where we will celebrate their awards with encomia, toasts, and lots of lively good cheer.
Judith Pascoe is George Mills Harper Professor in the Department of English at Florida State University.
She teaches classes on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature and culture, with special attention to collecting history and theory, voice recording, media theory, and absorption. Pascoe was the director of a 2016–17 NEH Next Generation Humanities Ph.D. Planning Grant aimed at integrating rhetorical artfulness, digital humanities literacy, and flexible career preparation.
The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, and a Fulbright Japan Lecturing Award, Pascoe has written about theatrical self-representation in the 1790s (Romantic Theatricality [Cornell UP, 1996]) and about romantic-era collectors (The Hummingbird Cabinet [Cornell UP, 2006]). Her third book, The Sarah Siddons Audio Files:Romanticism and the Lost Voice (U of Michigan P, 2011), was the recipient of the Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theatre History. In On the Bullet Train with Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights in Japan (U of Michigan, 2017), Pascoe writes about the Japanese popularization and adaptation of Emily Brontë's masterwork, and also about intellectual mastery, foreign language learning, and literary longing.
Kelvin Everest is Emeritus Bradley Professor at the University of Liverpool.
He is the author of Keats & Shelley: Winds of Light (Oxford UP, 2021), John Keats (Writers and their Work) (Liverpool UP, 2002), English Romantic Poetry (Open U, 1990) and Coleridge’s Secret Ministry: Context of the Conversation Poems (Harvester, 1979), along with many other essays.
He is the celebrated editor of Shelley’s Selected Poems (Longman, 2023) and the landmark six-volume The Poems of Shelley, which was completed in 2024.
