Jean H. Hagstrum Prize for Best Dissertation
Professor Jean Howard Hagstrum (1913-1995) taught English Literature at Northwestern University from 1940 until his retirement in 1981. The Jean H. Hagstrum Prize for Best Dissertation was endowed in his name after his death in 1995, and has been awarded annually since 1999.
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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
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Claire Waters |
Doctrine Embodied: Gender, Performance, and Authority in Late-Medieval Preaching |
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Joshua Charlson |
Writing the Void: The Holocaust, Representation, and American Culture |
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1995-96 |
Deanna Kreisel |
The Economics of Closure: Political Economy, Gender, and Narrative in Eliot and Hardy |