CFP: Dickens Society Symposium "Dickensian Landscapes" (3/31/2014; 8/8-10/2014)

19th Annual Dickens Society Symposium,
Domaine de Sagnes, Béziers (Languedoc-Roussillon), France

July 8-10, 2014
Deadline: March 31, 2014

Organisers: Marie-Amélie Coste (Lycée Jules Ferry); Christine Huguet (Université Lille III); Nathalie Vanfasse (Aix-Marseille Université)

"Dickensian Landscapes Call for Papers"
Paper proposals on any aspect of Dickens and his works are invited and very welcome. However, some might like to engage ideas on the proposed theme, “Dickensian Landscapes”, a timely topic given the distinctive setting of this year’s venue, but also because the very notion of landscape is not only still prevalent today, but seems to have morphed into multiple new derivatives such as ideoscapes, ethnoscapes, technoscapes, financescapes or mediascapes. How powerful a tool the notion of landscapes and its declensions could be to understand the self and the world is precisely what Dickens had already realized and shown in his work. Topics may include, but are not limited to: 

• Literal or figurative landscapes; 
• Actual or imaginary landscapes; 
• Domestic or exotic landscapes; 
• Cityscapes, seascapes; 
• Soundscapes; 
• The landscapes of Dickens’s mind; 
• Dickens as a landscape artist and the pictorial tradition of his time; 
• Dickens’s influence on other centuries, authors and art forms.

Papers will be delivered in English and must be readable in twenty minutes. Please send one-page proposals by e-mail, as an attachment, no later than March 31, 2014, to: marie-amelie.coste@hotmail.com, christine.huguet-meriaux@univ-lille3.fr, ornathalie.vanfasse@univ-amu.fr.

"The Robert B. Partlow, Jr. Prize"
Applications are invited for this award, named in honour of the original Secretary-Treasurer and one of the founding members of the Dickens Society. It is in the form of EITHER one stipend of $500, OR two of $300 (if two recipients are chosen), and is intended to defray costs of attending this Dickens Symposium, in order to deliver a paper on any aspect of Dickens’s life or work. The registration fee and cost of the Dickens Dinner will also be waived. Eligibility is restricted to students (graduate or undergraduate), independent scholars, and non-tenured faculty. Candidates should submit a CV, and a completed paper of twenty minutes duration, to one of the Symposium organizers (marie-amelie.coste@hotmail.com; christine.huguet-meriaux@univ-lille3.fr; nathalie.vanfasse@univ-amu.fr). Should the paper be of publishable quality, the Dickens Quarterly shall have first right of refusal. The winner will be informed of the Society’s decision in April 2014.

"Particulars"
The Symposium is to be held in one of the wine regions of Southern France, Languedoc-Roussillon, at a privately-owned country estate called Sagnes, located on the outskirts of Béziers and surrounded by the vineyards and olive trees that make the charm of this area. Accommodation will be in Béziers, with a shuttle service to and from the conference centre. The Dickens Dinner will take place on site, and two optional evenings will be proposed to delegates: one on board of a barge along the Canal du Midi, one of the greatest engineering achievements under the reign of Louis XIV; another meal will take place at the Cistercian Abbey of Fontfroide, following the visit of the Abbey and also of nearby Narbonne, one of the main cities of Gaul during the Roman Empire. 

Hotels: a list of hotels will be provided shortly. It is likely a deal will be secured with a couple of conveniently located hotels. 

Trip: Delegates have a number of options to get to Béziers:

• Fly to Béziers Airport: http://www.beziers.aeroport.fr/; 
• Fly to Perpignan Airport: http://www.aeroport-perpignan.com/fr/page/passagers and then take the train to Béziers for approximately 1h; 
• Fly to Montpellier Airport (http://www.montpellier.aeroport.fr/fr/passagers#) and then take the train to Béziers for approximately 1h (http://www.voyages-sncf.com); 
• Fly to Paris (Roissy or Orly) and then take the train for about 4H30 (http://www.voyages-sncf.com),or take another flight to Béziers.

Registration fee: The registration fee is €75 per delegate with a €55 discount rate for students. This includes the cost of the Dickens Dinner. Both excursions (visit to Narbonne and meal at Fontfroide; meal on a barge along the Canal du Midi) will each cost €57. The meal on the barge will only happen if at least 40 delegates sign up. If not enough people choose to attend, an alternative will be offered.

Call for Nominations: NCSA Article Prize (11/15/2012)

The Article Prize recognizes excellence in scholarly studies from any discipline focusing on any aspect of the long 19th century (French Revolution to World War I). The winner will receive a cash award of $500 to be presented at the annual meeting of NCSA in Fresno, California (March 7-9, 2013).

Articles published between September 1, 2011 and August 31, 2012 are eligible for consideration for the 2013 prize and may be submitted by the author or the publisher of a journal, anthology, or volume containing independent essays. Submission of interdisciplinary studies is especially encouraged. The winning article will be selected by a committee of nineteenth-century scholars representing diverse disciplines.

Send three copies of published articles/essays to the chair: Professor Christine Roth, Department of English, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, 800 Algoma Boulevard, Oshkosh, WI 54901. Questions should be sent to: roth@uwosh.edu. Applicants must verify date of actual publication for eligibility and provide an email address so that receipt of their submissions may be acknowledged. One entry per scholar or publisher is allowed annually. Essays written in part or in whole in a language other than English must be accompanied by English translations. Deadline for submission is November 15, 2012.

Reminder: Gaskell Journal Interdisciplinary Essay Prize (4/30/2012)

Joan Leach Memorial Interdisciplinary Essay Prize 2012

The essay competition is open to all graduate students currently registered for an MA or PhD in Victorian Studies. Preference will be shown to essays with a clear interdisciplinary focus, i.e. those that consider Elizabeth Gaskell within contemporary Victorian cultural, aesthetic and scientific debates, or else, through recent critical theory. Essays that treat Gaskell's work in more traditional ways, but which nonetheless demonstrate a compelling style and focus, are also very much welcomed.

The winning essay will be published in the 2012 edition of the Gaskell Journal and its author will receive £200 from the Gaskell Society, as well as a year’s free subscription to the journal.

Essays should be no longer than 7,000 words and not under consideration for publication elsewhere. The closing date for the essay prize is April 30, 2012.

Essays will be judged by members of the Gaskell Journal Editorial Board, with the final decision being made by the International Editor, Prof. Jill L. Matus.

Please see the Gaskell Journal website gaskelljournal.com for further submission details.

Reminder: Dickens Symposium in Lowell, MA (3/31/2012; 7/13-15/2012)

Dickens Society Symposium

University of Massachusetts Lowell
July 13 – 15, 2012

As part of its Dickens in Lowell celebration, the University of Massachusetts Lowell will host one of the two 2012 Dickens Society Symposia being offered in this bicentennial year.  Scholars will present their work July 13–15, 2012 at the Tsongas Industrial History Center.

Hotel accommodations in downtown Lowell at the UMass Lowell Inn & Conference Center will provide easy access to a major exhibition at the National Park’s Boott Gallery, "Dickens and Massachusetts: A Tale of Power and Transformation." The exhibition will include several rare artifacts, including the 1842 portrait of Dickens by Boston painter Francis Alexander, the Daniel Maclise portrait of the Dickens children, and the Boston Line Type edition of *The Old Curiosity Shop* donated by Dickens to the Perkins School for the Blind in 1868.

The popular Dickens walking tour of Lowell (first offered at the Dickens and America conference in 2002) and an interactive workshop at the Tsongas Industrial History Center will also be featured offerings of the symposium. Evening events include participation in “Dickens and Steampunk” and other "Dickens in Lowell" community programming. For more information, see http://www.uml.edu/dickens.

Paper proposals on any aspect of Dickens and his works are invited. Final papers must be readable in twenty minutes. Please send one-page proposals by email, as an attachment, to Joel J. Brattin no later than March 31, 2012: jjb@wpi.edu.  Scholars at all stages of their careers are encouraged to submit proposals. Registration fee is $100 standard fee, $50 graduate students. The Dickens dinner is $25. Contact DickensinLowell@uml.edu for more information.  A downloadable registration form and symposium schedule information will be available soon on our website: http://www.uml.edu/dickens.

Announcement: The Partlow Prize may be awarded to one or two graduate students, independent scholars, or non-tenured faculty, in the amount of $300 to $500. Those who wish to be considered for the Partlow Prize should submit a cv and a proposal/synopsis of 500-1000 words. The Partlow Prize includes a monetary award, a waiver of the symposium registration fee, and the cost of the Dickens dinner. Dickens Quarterly has the right of first refusal for publication. The Secretary/Treasurer will inform the host(s) of the symposium of the sum available for support.

Call for Nominations: Perkins Prize for books published in 2011 (6/1/2012)

ISSN Perkins Prize

http://narrative.georgetown.edu/awards/perkins.php

The prize, awarded to the book making the most significant contribution to the study of narrative published in 2011, consists of $1,000 plus a contribution of $500 toward expenses for the winning author to attend the Narrative Conference where the award will be presented. For books published in 2011, please send inquiries or nominations (the name of the book is sufficient) to the Chair of the judging committee, Professor Brian Richardson: richb@umd.edu. Please send—or have the publisher send—a copy of the nominated book to each of the Committee members at the addresses listed below.  Publisher, third party, and self-nominations are appropriate.  Deadline for nominations is June 1, 2012. The winner will be announced at the Boston MLA Convention in January 2013, and the prize will be presented at the Narrative Conference in Manchester UK in June 2013.  

CFP: 2012 Trollope Prize “Trollope and His World” (6/1/2012)

The Trollope Prize

Awarded annually to the best undergraduate and graduate essay on the work of Anthony Trollope

Call for Submissions: “Trollope and His World”

Submissions may include essays focusing exclusively on the works of Anthony Trollope; comparative essays on Trollope and other writers; essays examining Trollope’s work and career in the larger context of Victorian history, culture and society; historical or literary essays on topics central to Trollope’s work and illuminated by his work; or essays on the reception of Trollope’s work or on his larger cultural  influence.

Undergraduate Award: $1,000

Graduate Award: $2,000

There is a $500 award for the undergraduate's faculty mentor.

Deadline: June 1, 2012

For guidelines and submission criteria please visit www.trollopeprize.ku.edu

Sponsored by The English Department and The Hall Center for the Humanities at The University of Kansas

CFP: The Pre-Raphaelite Society Essay Prize (12/31/2012)

The John Pickard Essay Prize

You are invited to enter a monograph of not more than 2000 words for The John Pickard Essay Prize. The monograph may be on any individual related to the Pre-Raphaelite circle.

The winner will receive £100 prize and publication in the Spring 2013 Review and subsequently the essays of runners-up may also be published.  The final decision will be made by the Committee of the Pre-Raphaelite Society. Entries are to be received by the Editor by 31st  December 2012, and may be emailed to serena@serenatrowbridge.co.uk or serena.trowbridge@bcu.ac.uk.

CFP: Midwest Conference on British Studies (4/1/2012; 10/12-14/2012)

The Midwest Conference on British Studies is proud to announce that its fifty-ninth annual meeting will be hosted by the University of Toronto in Ontario, Canada, October 12-14th, 2012.  

The keynote speaker will be John Gillis, Professor Emeritus, Rutgers University. The plenary address will be given by Ian Gentles, Professor of History, Tynedale University College and Seminary.

The MWCBS seeks papers from scholars in all fields of British Studies, broadly defined to include those who study England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, and Britain's Empire and the Commonwealth. We welcome scholars from the broad spectrum of disciplines, including but not limited to history, literature, political science, gender studies and art history. Proposals for complete sessions are preferred, although proposals for individual papers will be considered. We welcome roundtables (of four participants plus chair) and panels (of three participants plus chair/commentator) that:

•  offer cross-disciplinary perspectives on topics in British Studies
•  situate the arts, letters, and sciences in a British cultural context
•  examine representations of British and imperial/Commonwealth national identities
•  consider Anglo-American relations, past and present
•  examine new trends in British Studies
•  assess a major work or body of work by a scholar
• explore new developments in digital humanities and/or research methodologies

After a very positive response to last year’s first teaching roundtable, we would particularly like to receive proposals for teaching roundtables that discuss collaborative or innovative learning techniques in the British Studies classroom.

The MWCBS welcomes papers presented by advanced graduate students and will award the Walter L. Arnstein Prize for the best graduate student paper(s) given at the conference.

Proposals must:

Include a 200-word abstract for each paper and a brief, 1-page c.v. for each participant, including chairs and commentators.

For full panels, include a brief 200-word preview of the panel as a whole.

Please place the panel proposal, the accompanying paper proposals and vitas in one file and send it as a single attachment. Also identify within the email the contact person for the panel.

All proposals should be submitted online by April 1, 2012, to the Program Committee Chair, Lia Paradis at lia.paradis@sru.edu.

Program Committee: Phil Harling, University of Kentucky; Robin Hermann, University of Louisiana at Lafayette; Isaac Land, Indiana State University; Jennifer McNabb, Western Illinois University; Lia Paradis, Chair, Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania; Lisa Sigel, Depaul University.

Visit the MWCBS website at http://mwcbs.edublogs.org/

Last Call: INCS 2011 Essay Prize Nominations (1/15/2012)

Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies invites nominations and submissions for its annual essay prize.  The $500 prize recognizes excellence in interdisciplinary scholarship on any nineteenth-century topic or world region.  We encourage members of INCS to nominate an essay written by a current (2011) member of INCS  or to submit their own work.  Articles published in a book or journal dated 2011 are eligible.  The winner will be announced at the 2012 conference (to be held at the University of Kentucky, March 22-25) and invited to put together a panel for the 2013 INCS Conference.  Please send three paper copies of the nominated essay to Professor Sharon Aronofsky Weltman, Department of English, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 no later than January 15, 2012. For more details about the essay competition, the conference, or the organization, we invite you to visit the INCS website at http://www.nd.edu/~incshp/ .

CFP: INCS Essay Competition (1/15/2012)

Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies invites nominations and submissions for its annual essay prize.  The $500 prize recognizes excellence in interdisciplinary scholarship on any nineteenth-century topic or world region.  We encourage members of INCS to nominate an essay written by a current member of INCS or to submit their own work.  Articles published in a book or journal dated 2011 are eligible.  The winner will be announced at the 2012 conference (to be held at the University of Kentucky, March 22-25) and invited to put together a panel for the 2013 INCS Conference.  Please send three paper copies of the nominated essay to Professor Sharon Aronofsky Weltman, Department of English, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 no later than January 15, 2012.

For more details about the essay competition, the conference, or the organization, we invite you to visit the INCS website at http://www.nd.edu/~incshp/.  

CFP: Joan Leach Memorial Interdisciplinary Essay Prize 2011-2 (4/30/2012)

The Gaskell Journal is pleased to inaugurate its Graduate Student Essay Prize in honour of Joan Leach MBE, founder and president of the Gaskell Society.

The essay competition is open to all graduate students currently registered for an MA or PhD in Victorian Studies. Preference will be shown to essays with a clear interdisciplinary focus, i.e. those that consider Elizabeth Gaskell within contemporary Victorian cultural, aesthetic and scientific debates, or else, through recent critical theory. Essays that treat Gaskell's work in more traditional ways, but which nonetheless demonstrate a compelling style and focus, are also very much welcomed. In all cases, clarity of argument and expression is paramount.

The winning essay will be published in the 2012 edition of the Gaskell Journal and its author will receive £200 from the Gaskell Society, as well as a year’s free subscription to the journal.

Essays should be no longer than 7,000 words and not under consideration for publication elsewhere. The closing date for the essay prize is April 30, 2012.

Essays will be judged by members of the Gaskell Journal Editorial Board, with the final decision being made by the International Editor, Prof. Jill L. Matus.

Please see the Gaskell Journal website gaskelljournal.com for further submission details.

Call for Nominations: Colby Scholarly Book Prize (12/1/2011)

The Research Society for Victorian Periodicals is pleased to announce the 2011 competition for the annual Robert and Vineta Colby Scholarly Book Prize, honoring the scholarly book that most advances the understanding of the nineteenth-century British newspaper and/or periodical press. All books exploring periodicals of the period are eligible (including single-author monographs, edited collections, and editions) so long as they have an official publication date of 2011.

The winner will receive a monetary award of up to $2,000, and will be invited to speak at the RSVP conference at The University of Texas at Austin (September 14-5, 2012). The prize is made possible by a generous gift in honor of Robert and Vineta Colby, long and devoted members of RSVP and major scholars in the field of Victorian periodicals.

To nominate a book please email Joanne Shattock (ejs4@le.ac.uk) by December 1, 2011. You or your press will be asked to supply the committee with five copies of the book by the beginning of January, 2012. Self-nominations are welcome.

A PDF of this call for nominations can be found at this address:
http://www.rs4vp.org/2012_colby_cfp.pdf

NCSA 2012 Article Prize (12/15/2011)

The Nineteenth Century Studies Association announces the 2012 Article Prize, recognizing scholarly excellence in any discipline focusing on any aspect of the long 19th century (French Revolution to World War I). The winner will receive $500 at the NCSA meeting hosted this year by the University of North Carolina, Asheville, March 22-24, 2012. Articles published between September 1, 2010 and August 31, 2011are eligible. The author or publisher of a journal, anthology, or volume of independent essays may submit. Send three hard copies and email address to: Professor Maura Coughlin, Bryant University, 1150 Douglas Pike, Smithfield RI 02917. Questions: mcoughli@bryant.edu.

Applicants must provide verification from the editor of the venue documenting date of actual publication. One entry per scholar and three per publisher; note the entry's interdisciplinary focus. Foreign language essays must have English translations. Deadline: December 15, 2011.

CFP: Mother/Nature interdisciplinary conference (10/15/2011; 3/16-18/2012)

Mother/Nature Conference

March 16-18, 2012
Thad Cochran Center
University of Southern Mississippi
Hattiesburg, MS

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Barbara Gates

“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.”
John Muir

We live in a time of crisis in our homes and in our natural environment. From hurricanes to oil spills, we are linked to each other through the loss and degradation of regional and national habitats. Our selfhoods and the place we make for ourselves in the world are ultimately rooted in both our biological and ecological families.

The theme for this conference, Mother/Nature, seeks to discover interconnectedness and meaning through a study of shifting influences on the changing definition of motherhood. We welcome submissions that consider the conceptions of the intersection of motherhood and the natural world. Interdisciplinary approaches to motherhood and nature, especially interactions between the humanities and sciences, are invited. We encourage scholars to think creatively about this conference theme and invite papers and panel proposals that consider topics including but not limited to:

The Science of Motherhood

• Theories of childbirth in the United States
• Psychologizing nature: nature deficit disorders
• Health and motherhood

Contemporary Sustainability

• Finding balance in the modern world
• Conceiving renewable energy
• Domesticated landscapes

The Nature of Motherhood

• Nature vs. nurture
• Biological determinism

Non-Biological Motherhood

• Foster/adoptive parenting
• Masculinity and motherhood
• Single parenthood
• Educators as “mothers”

Interrogating Conservation

• Parenting the natural world
• Protecting endangered species and landscapes
• The birth of the modern environmental movement

Mother/Nature in Literature

• Literary Darwinism
• Defining women’s health through ecocriticism
• Representations of mother/nature in children’s literature

Modern Motherhood

• Redefining motherhood in pop culture
• Representing mother/nature in film

We welcome papers from faculty members and graduate students. Strong undergraduate submissions will also be considered. Please send abstracts (250-300 words) and a brief biography (100 words) to mothernatureconference@gmail.com by October 15, 2011. Include abstracts and biographies in the main text of the email and attach as a .rtf or .doc file. Also indicate whether you have any technology needs. Individual sessions will last 15-20 minutes.

We also welcome the submission of creative works (a selection of 3-5 poems or 3,000 words for fiction or creative non-fiction). Please submit these works following the above guidelines by October 15, 2011.

A monetary prize will be offered to the best student paper. To be considered for this award, please submit the full copy of your paper by February 1, 2012.

Registration fee: none. 

CFP: Victorian Review 2011 Hamilton Prize, deadline extended (7/15/2011)

Victorian Review's 2011 Hamilton Prize-Deadline Extension to 15 July 

Victorian Review invites submissions for the annual Hamilton Prize for the best graduate student essay in the field of Victorian Studies. The annual award honours the effort and achievements of Susan Hamilton, editor of Victorian Review from 2000 to 2006.

Essays should be 20-25 pages in length (not including Works Cited) and should not have been previously published. The winner will receive an award of $250 CAN and publication of the essay in the Spring 2012 issue of Victorian Review. The journal will also publish the names and essay titles of up to two runners-up in the Spring 2012 issue. The deadline for submissions for the 2011 competition has been extended to July 15, 2011.

The winning essay will be selected according to the following criteria: contribution to Victorian studies; quality and originality; and style and clarity. The award will be judged by a four-member panel of the journal's Advisory Board.

Please send entries to:
vreview@uvic.ca
ATTN: Hamilton Prize

About the Journal: http://web.uvic.ca/victorianreview/

Rudikoff first book prize (7/20/2011)

The Northeast Victorian Studies Association is accepting nominations for the Sonya Rudikoff Award for the best first monograph on the Victorian period published in 2010. The Sonya Rudikoff Award was established by the Robert Gutman family in honor of Mr. Gutman's late wife. Ms. Rudikoff was an active member of the Northeast Victorian Studies Association and a recognized scholar.

Any text nominated for this award must be the author's first academic monograph. The subject should address Victorian literature and/or culture. Our focus is on Victorian Great Britain and the Empire, although we will consider texts that are transatlantic or long nineteenth-century in focus. We will not consider texts that are strictly American Victorian. Books must have been published during 2010. The award winner will receive a cash prize. The winning author and publisher will be announced at the April 2012 conference of the Northeast Victorian Studies Association at Columbia University.

Please have the publisher submit seven copies of the text by July 20, 2011 to

Professor Anne Humpherys
Ph.D. Program in English
The Graduate Center, CUNY
365 Fifth Avenue
New York, N.Y. 10016-4309

More information may be found at: http://www.nvsa.org/rudikoff.htm

Any questions should be directed to Jason Rudy at jrrudy@umd.edu

CFP: 2011 Trollope Prize, judges announced (6/1/2011)

The Trollope Prize at the University of Kansas is pleased to announce the judges for the 2011 essay contest.

Andrew H. Miller is Professor of English and Director of the Victorian Studies Program at Indiana University Bloomington, as well as the co-editor of Victorian Studies.  He has been a fellow of both the National Humanities Center and the American Council of Learned Societies.  His work has explored nineteenth-century texts by Dickens, Gaskell, and Thackeray, and his recent publications include The Burdens of Perfection: On Ethics and Reading in Nineteenth-Century British Literature (Cornell University Press, 2008).

Helena Michie is Professor of English and the Agnes Cullen Arnold Professor in Humanities at Rice University.  Her work focuses on feminist theory, Victorian literature and culture, and the Victorian novel.  She has been awarded fellowships by both the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Guggenheim Foundation.  Her latest monograph is Victorian Honeymoons: Journeys to the Conjugal (Cambridge University Press, 2006).

Dorice Williams Elliott is Associate Professor of English at the University of Kansas.  Her work focuses on the Victorian novel, theories of class, and feminist theory.  She has recently received both a fellowship from the Hall Center for the Humanities and a W.T. Kemper Fellowship for Teaching Excellence.  Her publications include The Angel out of the House: Philanthropy and Gender in Nineteenth-Century England (University of Virginia Press, 2002).  She is currently researching Australian convict literature.

The deadline for entries to both the undergraduate and graduate essay contests is June 1, 2011. Also please note that recent PhD recipients may enter the graduate contest.

Please see our website -- http://trollopeprize.ku.edu -- for more information on the Prize, or e-mail any questions to lkiehna@ku.edu.

CFP: British Studies Essay Contest for Undergraduates at U.S. Colleges and Universities (6/1/2011)

As you read student essays, please keep in mind the North American Conference on British Studies' annual undergrad essay prize. The NACBS awards up to six prizes of $100 each according to the following guidelines:

1. The essay must have been written while the author was a degree-seeking undergraduate at a U.S. college or university.
2. Essays written for courses or as theses must have received an A grade.
3. All nominations must be accompanied by the signature of a faculty sponsor, who must be a member of the NACBS. No individual may nominate more than one essay in any one year.
4. Essays in any field of British Studies are welcome.
5. Essays should be between 10 and 25 pages, excluding citations and references.
6. Please submit a letter of nomination (including the permanent mailing address and email contact information for the student) along with an electronic or three hard copies of the essay by June 1, 2011 to Professor Peter Hoffenberg, Department of History, University of Hawaii, 2530 Dole Street, Sakamaki Hall A203 · Honolulu, HI 96822-2283. Email: peterh@hawaii.edu.
7. For further information please feel free to contact Prof. Hoffenberg at the above address. Thank you

For more information visit http://www.nacbs.org/britstudessayendergrad.html

CFP: Leon Edel Prize for Best Essay on Henry James by a Beginning Scholar (11/1/2011)

The Leon Edel Prize is awarded annually for the best essay on Henry James by a beginning scholar.  The prize carries with it an award of $150, and the prize-winning essay will be published in HJR. The competition is open to applicants who have not held a full-time academic appointment for more than four years. Independent scholars and graduate students are encouraged to apply.

Essays should be 20-30 pages (including notes), original, and not under submission elsewhere or previously published. Send submissions (4 copies, produced according to current MLA style, and with return postage enclosed) to:

Susan M. Griffin, Editor
The Henry James Review
Department of English
Universityof Louisville
Louisville, KY  40292

Author's name should not appear on the manuscript.  Please identify essays as submissions for the Leon Edel Prize. A brief curriculum vitae should be included.  Decisions about regular publication are also made at  the same time as the prize decision.

Deadline: November 1, 2011


Henry James Review: http://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/henry_james_review/

CFP: 2011 Trollope Prize, now in partnership with The Fortnightly Review (6/1/2011)

New Partnership with The Fortnightly Review
The Trollope Prize at the University of Kansas is pleased to announce a new partnership with The Fortnightly Review.  The Fortnightly Review, an on-line version of the magazine begun by Anthony Trollope in 1865, will publish the winning graduate essay and will add a modest honorarium to the graduate award.

The Fortnightly Review has a storied history and was one of the most influential English-language periodicals of the nineteenth-century.  The brainchild of Anthony Trollope, who was inspired by Matthew Arnold’s call for “a current of true and fresh ideas” in his 1864 lecture on “The Function of Criticism,” The Fortnightly Review launched on May 15, 1865 under the
editorship of George Henry Lewes.  The new on-line series of The Fortnightly Review, edited by Anthony O’Hear and Denis Boyles, publishes articles on art and literature, philosophy and culture, informed by an awareness of the Fortnightly’s archived content.

The Trollope Prize
The Fortnightly Review is a natural place to publish the winning graduate essay of the annual Trollope Prize.  The Trollope Prize is awarded annually to the best undergraduate and graduate essays in English on the works of Anthony Trollope. The Prize is designed to help promote the study of Trollope in college classrooms and to encourage student engagement with both Trollope's work and Victorian literary history through their own intensive
research and writing.  Submissions for the prize are accepted from around the world.  The deadline is June 1, 2011. Winners will be announced in August 2011.

Essays are invited on the topic of "Trollope and His World." Submissions may include essays focusing exclusively on the works of Anthony Trollope; comparative essays on Trollope and other writers; essays examining Trollope's work and career in the larger context of Victorian history, culture and society; historical or literary essays on topics central to Trollope's work and illuminated by his work; or essays on the reception of Trollope's work or on his larger cultural influence.

Beginning in 2011, two prizes will be awarded: one to an essay written by an undergraduate student and one to an essay written by a graduate student. The writers of the winning undergraduate essay will receive a $1,000 award and a hardcover copy of a Trollope novel. The winning undergraduate student's faculty adviser will also receive a $500 award to help support the continued development of curriculum focusing on Trollope's works.

The graduate winner will receive a $2,000 award and a hardcover copy of a Trollope novel.  In addition, the winning graduate essay will be published in The Fortnightly Review and the winner will receive a modest additional honorarium from the publication.

Visit trollopeprize.ku.edu for more information about the Trollope Prize, including submission criteria and guidelines.  Visit fortnightlyreview.co.uk for more information about The Fortnightly Review.