INCS ESSAY PRIZE FOR 2011

The $500 prize recognizes excellence in interdisciplinary scholarship by a member of INCS on any nineteenth-century topic or world region.

We encourage members of INCS to submit or nominate essays.

The winner will be announced at the 2013 conference (to be held at the University of Virginia, March 14-17) and invited to put together a panel for the 2014 INCS Conference. 

• That were written by current (2012) members of INCS
• That were published in a book or journal in 2012
• That make a significant contribution to the field of nineteenth-century studies

Send an electronic copy of the nominated essay to Professor Sharon Aronofsky Weltman (LSU) at incsprize2012@gmail.com no later than January 10, 2013.  

Previous Prize Winners

2011.  Shaden M. Tageldin. “Secularizing Islam: Carlyle, al-Siba'i, and the Translations of 'Religion' in British Egypt.” PMLA 126.1 (2011):123-39. Honorable Mention: John Kucich. “Psychoanalytic Historicism: Shadow Discourse and the Gender Politics of Masochism in Ellis, Schreiner, and Haggard.” PMLA 126.1 (2011): 88-106.

2010. Michael Cohen. “Contraband Singing: Poems and Songs in Circulation during the Civil War.” American Literature 82 (2010):271-304. Honorable Mention: Richard Taws. “Material Futures: Reproducing Revolution in P.-L. Debucourt's Almanach National.” The Art Bulletin 92 (2010):135-53.

2009. Kimberley Manganelli. “The Tragic Mulatta Plays the Tragic Muse.” Victorian Literature and Culture 37 (2009):501-522.

2008. Joshua Lund. “The Mestizo State: Colonization and Indianization in Liberal Mexico,” PMLA 123 (2008): 1418-33. Honorable Mention: Melissa Ganz, “Binding the Will: George Eliot and the Practice of Promising,” ELH 75 (2008): 565-602.

2007. Marilyn Ruth Brown. “‘Miss La La’s’ Teeth: Reflections on Degas and Race,” Art Bulletin 89 (2007) 738-65. Honorable mention: Charles Laporte, “The Bard, the Bible, and the Victorian Shakespeare Question,” ELH 74 (2007) 609-628.

2006. Andrea L. Hibbard and John T. Parry. “Law, Seduction, and the Sentimental Heroine: The Case of Amelia Norman.” American Literature 78 (2006): 325-55.

2005. Laura Rotunno, “The Long History of 'In Short': Mr. Micawber, Letter-Writers, and Literary Men.” Victorian Literature and Culture 33 (2005): 415-33.

2004. Daniel Novak. “A Model Jew: 'Literary Photographs' and the Jewish Body in Daniel Deronda.” Representations 85 (2004): 58-97.