Save the Date: K-SAA Awards Ceremony 2020-21

Save the date!

The Keats-Shelley Association of America and the wider Romanticism community will honor this year’s K-SAA Distinguished Scholars, Angela Esterhammer and Orrin Wang on Saturday, January 9th 2021 on Zoom.  The 2020 K-SAA Essay Prize winner and the Pforzheimer Research Grant recipients will also be announced during this ceremony.  Whilst announcements of the scholars recognised at the Annual K-SAA Awards are usually given at the MLA conference, this year we are going digital for the first time! The time of the ceremony and other pertinent information will be announced soon. We hope you will join us to celebrate our friends and colleagues.  Professor Esterhammer and Professor Wang will join eminent scholars including Jerome McGann, Pamela Clemit, Nora Crook, and Neil Fraistat as recipients of the Distinguished Scholar Award of the Keats-Shelley Association. 2019 saw Mary Favret and Duncan Wu awarded this honor at MLA 2020, held in Seattle.  We are also very excited to present the 2020 K-SAA Essay Prize to a very worthy recipient, who will succeed 2019's winner Alexander Freer. Dr Freer was highly praised for his essay 'Percy Shelley's Touch; or, Lyric Depersonalization', Modern Philology 117.1 (2019), 91-114., which can be read here. 

Similarly, the Carl H. Pforzheimer, Jr., Research Grants will be awarded during this ceremony, with recipients joining the likes of last year's winners Deven Parker, whose grant was awarded to fund research at the National Archives and British Postal Museum, and Samantha Nystrom, whose plans included fieldwork at Abbotsford, Melrose Abbey, and the Scottish National Library.  As a reminder - Carl H. Pforzheimer Jr., Research Grants are still open for application until the 1st November 2020. We welcome applications from advanced graduate students, independent scholars, and untenured faculty in order to support research in British Romanticism and literary culture, 1789-1832. For more information on the application process, please see here.  We look forward to reading your Pforzheimer Grant applications, and welcoming attendees old and new to the K-SAA Awards Ceremony in 2021.