K-SAA Essay Prize
In order to recognize outstanding scholarship devoted to the writers of our period and the culture in which they lived, the Keats-Shelley Association of America has since 1986 conferred an annual Essay Award. The awards are adjudicated by a three-member committee specially designated by the Board of Directors and are conferred at K-SAA’s annual dinner at the Modern Language Association’s conference. Encomia for Award-winning essays are published in the Keats-Shelley Journal.
Recipients of Keats-Shelley Association Essay Prize
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2023: Lily Gurton-Wachter
"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.
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2022: Kir Kuiken
“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.
Learn more about the edited collection here.
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2021: Celeste Langan and Padma Rangarajan
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.
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2020: Jessica Roberson
“Remembrance and Remediation: Mediating Disability and Literary Tourism in the Romantic Archive,” Studies in Romanticism 59.1 (2020): 85-108.
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2020 Honorable Mention: Mina Gorji
“John Clare and the Language of Listening,” Romanticism 26.2 (2020), 153-67.
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2019: Alexander Freer
‘Percy Shelley’s Touch; or, Lyric Depersonalization’, Modern Philology 117.1 (2019), 91-114.
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2018: Greg Ellermann
“A Poetics of Ether,” European Romantic Review 29.3 (2018), 389-98.
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2017: Anne McCarthy
“Reading the Red Bull Sublime,” PMLA 132.3 (2017), 543-57.
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2016: Mark Canuel
“Race, Writing, and Don Juan,” Studies in Romanticism 54.3 (Fall 2015), 303-328.
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2015: Yohei Igarashi
“Keats’s Ways: The Dark Passages of Mediation and Why He Gives Up Hyperion,” Studies in Romanticism 53.2 (Summer 2014), 171-194.
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2014: Richard Adelman
“Idleness and Vacancy in Shelley’s ‘Mont Blanc,’” Keats-Shelley Journal 62 (2013), 62-79.
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2013: Matthew C. Borushko
“The Politics of Subreption: Resisting the Sublime in Shelley’s ‘Mont Blanc,’” Studies in Romanticism 52.2 (Summer 2013), 225-252.
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2012: Scott J. Juengel and Rei Terada
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).
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2011: Colin Jager
“Shelley After Atheism,” Studies in Romanticism 49.4 (Winter 2010), 611-632.
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2010: Nancy Yousef
“Romanticism, Psychoanalysis, and the Interpretation of Silence,” European Romantic Review 21.5 (October 2010), 653-672.
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2009: Brendan Corcoran
“Keats’s Death: Towards a Posthumous Poetics,” Studies in Romanticism 48.2 (Summer 2009), 321-48.
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2008: Timothy Morton
“John Clare’s Dark Ecology,” Studies in Romanticism 47.2 (Summer 2008), 179-93.
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2007: Stephen Cheeke
“‘What So Many Have Told, Who Would Tell Again?’: Romanticism and the Commonplaces of Rome,” European Romantic Review (December 2006).
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2006: Matthew Buckley
“’A Dream of Murder’: The Fall of Robespierre and the Tragic Imagination,” Studies in Romanticism, 44: 4 (Winter 2005)
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2006 Honorable Mention: Hadley J. Mozer
“‘I WANT a hero’: Advertising for an Epic Hero in Don Juan,” Studies in Romanticism 44.2 (Summer 2005).
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2005: Mary Favret
“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).
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2004: Orrin N. C. Wang
“Coming Attractions: Lamia and Cinematic Sensation,” Studies in Romanticism 42.4 (Winter 2003), 461-500.
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2003: Charles Rzepka
“‘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.
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2002: Denise Gigante
“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).
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2001: Gary Dyer
“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.
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2000: Tricia Lootens
“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.
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1999: Noah Herringman
“‘Stones so wondrous cheap'” Studies in Romanticism 37.1 (Spring 1998), 43-62.
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1998: Ina Ferris
“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).
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1997: Maureen Noelle McLane
“Literature Species: Populations, ‘Humanities,’ and Frankenstein” ELH 63.4 (Winter 1996), 959-88.
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1996: Julie A. Carlson
“Forever Young: Master Betty and the Queer State of Youth in English Romanticism,” South Atlantic Quarterly 95.3 (summer 1996), 575-603.
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1995: Sonia Hofkosh
“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.
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1994: Jerome Christensen and Neil Fraistat
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.
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1993: Anne D. Wallace
“Farming on Foot: Tracking Georgic in Clare and Wordsworth,” Texas Studies in Literature and Language 34 (Winter 1992), 509-40.
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1992: Alan Bewell
“Keats’s ‘Realm of Flora,'” Studies in Romanticism 31.1 (Spring 1992), 71-98.
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1991: Margaret Homans
“Keats Reading Women, Women Reading Keats,” Studies in Romanticism 29.3 (Fall 1990), 341-370.
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1990: Kim Ian Michasiw
“The Social Other: Don Juan and the Genesis of the Self,” Mosaic 22.2 (1989), 29-48.
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1989: Tilottama Rajan
“Wollstonecraft and Godwin: Reading the Secrets of the Political Novel,” Studies in Romanticism 27.2 (Summer 1988), 221-251.
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1988: Susan Wolfson
“‘Their she condition’: Cross-dressing and the Politics of Gender in Don Juan,” ELH 54.3 (Autumn 1987), 585-617.
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1987: Mark Edmundson
“Keats’s Mental Stance,” Studies in Romanticism 26.1 (Spring 1987), 85-104.
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1986: Nancy Moore Goslee
“Shelley at Play: A Study of Sketch and Text in his Prometheus Notebooks,” The Huntington Library Quarterly 48.3 (Summer 1985), 211-255.