Jean H. Hagstrum Prize for Best Dissertation
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2024-25 |
Lingyi Olivia Xu (PhD 2025) |
Multilingualism of the Other: Writing the Novel in Translation East and West, 1818-1910 |
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2023-24 |
Johana Godfrey (PhD 2023) |
Victorian Anachronists: Knowing the Past in the Nineteenth-century Novel |
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2022-23 |
Jayme Collins (PhD 2022) |
Composing in the Field |
| Nancy Haijing Jiang (PhD 2023) |
The Trade of Penance: Commercial Practice and Penitential Piety in Late Medieval Literature | |
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2021-22 |
Maria Dikcis |
Ink, Wave, Signal, Code: Multiethnic American Poetry's Media Ecologies After 1965 |
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2020-21 |
Sara Černe |
American Sediments: Race and Environment in Literature along the Mississippi after Twain |
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2019-20 |
Bonnie Etherington |
One Salt Water: Writing the Pacific Ocean in Contemporary Indigenous Protest Literatures |
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2018-19 |
Chad Infante |
Cool Fratricide: Murder and Metaphysics in Black and Indigenous U.S. Literature |
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Andrew Keener |
Staging Worlds of Words: Cosmopolitan Vernaculars in English Renaissance Drama |
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2017-18 |
Toby Altman |
The Shock of the Old: Periodization, Poetics, and Diachronic Exchange Between the Renaissance and the Avant-Garde |
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2016-17 |
Alanna Hickey |
The Forms of National Belonging: The Politics of Nineteenth-Century Native American Poetry |
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2015-16 |
Maha Jafri |
Between Us: Gossip, Sociability, and the Victorian Novel |
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2014-15 |
Christopher Shirley |
Reading by Hand: Manuscript Poetry and Reader Identity in Early Modern England |
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Winter Jade Werner |
The Gospel and the Globe: Missionary Enterprises and the Cosmopolitan Imagination, 1795-1860 |
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2013-14 |
Michael Slater |
The "Literary Revolution": Reimagining Literature and Science in the Renaissance |
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2012-13 |
Jenny Lee |
Confessio Auctoris: Confessional Poetics and Authority in the Literature of Late Medieval England, 1350-1450 |
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Wendy Roberts |
Redeeming Verse: The Rise of Revival Poetry in Eighteenth-Century British North America |
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2011-12 |
Greg Laski |
The Present-Past: Race, Repetition, and the Temporality of American Democracy after Slavery |
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2010-11 |
Abram Van Engen |
The Sentimental Puritan |
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2009-10 |
Jeffrey Knight |
Compiling Culture: Textual Assembly and the Production of Renaissance Literature |
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2008-09 |
Hyun Jung Lee |
Evil Genius: Victorian Popular Fiction as Moral Philosophy |
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2007-08 |
Gayle Rogers |
British Modernism and Ortega's Spanish Vanguard: Cosmopolitanism, Circulation, and Modernity, 1922-1939 |
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2006-07 |
Wen Jin |
Rethinking Cultural Translation: Multiculturalism and Chinese American Transnational Literature |
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Dan Gleason |
Seeing Imagism: A Poetics of Literary Visualization |
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2005-06 |
William Huntting Howell |
"A more perfect copy than heretofore": Imitation, Emulation, and the Early American Literary Culture |
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2004-05 |
Dana Bilsky |
Tangled Skeins: Identification and Tantasmatic Genealogies of Slavery in Narratives by Jacobs, Crafts, Wilson, and Keckley |
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2003-04 |
Benjamin Pauley |
The Common Class of Men: Law and the Lay Reader in the Eighteenth-Century English Novel |
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2001-02 |
Matthew Frankel |
The Aesthetics of Citizenship: Race, Representation, and the American Sublime |
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1999-2000 |
Bradley Deane |
The Making of the Victorian Novelist: Authorship, Ideology, and the Mass Market |
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1998-99 |
Claire Waters |
Doctrine Embodied: Gender, Performance, and Authority in Late-Medieval Preaching |