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.

A wonderful assignment by Daniel Block, Ph.D., English Department Chair, King School

Goals:

• To bring the poetry of British Romantic literature into conversation with current events;

• To engage with the theme of “Performing Politics: Romantic Futures,” which is the focus of the 2024 Curran Symposium at New York University;

• To collaborate with the Keats-Shelley Association of America and the Byron Society of America on their public art initiatives

Global Equiano opens fresh conversations about enslaved and free Black people as they navigated spaces dominated by violent, colonial forces, and considers the Black Atlantic futures they imagined.

As the application deadline approaches, we encourage advanced graduate students, independent scholars, and untenured faculty to consider how this funding might support their scholarly endeavors and contribute to the broader academic discourse in the field.