Karen Dandurand Lifetime Achievement Award

Awarded to Sharon Harris, Professor Emerita, University of Connecticut

Selection Committee
Cherene Sherrard-Johnson, Professor of English, Chair of the Lifetime Achievement Award Selection Committee
Beth Widmaier Capo, Professor of English, Illinois College
Dorri Beam, Associate Professor of English, Syracuse University
Miranda Green-Barteet, Assistant Professor, Joint Appointed in Department of Women’s Studies and Department of English and Writing Studies, The University of Western Ontario
Elissa M. Zellinger, Lecturer of English, Armstrong Atlantic State University

Book Award

Awarded to Mary Chapman, Making Noise, Making News: Suffrage Print Culture and U.S. Modernism (Oxford University Press, 2014).

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Honorable Mentions

Alexandra Socarides, Dickinson Unbound: Paper, Process, Poetics (Oxford University Press, 2012).

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Claudia Stokes, The Altar at Home: Sentimental Literature and Nineteenth-Century American Religion (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014).

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Selection Committee
Koritha Mitchell (Chair) Associate Professor of English, The Ohio State University
Lori Harrison-Kahan, Associate Professor of the Practice of English, Boston College
Tamara Harvey, Associate Professor of English, George Mason University

Edition Award

Awarded to Theresa Strouth Gaul for Cherokee Sister: The Collected Writings of Catharine Brown, 1818-1823 (University of Nebraska Press, 2014).

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Honorable Mention

Jennifer Putzi and Elizabeth Stockton, The Selected Letters of Elizabeth Stoddard (University of Iowa Press, 2012).

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Selection Committee
Terry Novak, Professor of English, Chair of the Edition Award Selection Committee, Johnson & Wales University
Debby Rosenthal, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, John Carroll University
Seretha Williams, Professor of English, Georgia Regents University

Graduate Student Paper Award

The Society for the Study of American Women Writers is pleased to announce the winners of its 2015 Graduate Student Paper Awards, which recognize the exemplary work that graduate students presented at the recent SSAWW conference in Philadelphia, PA. This contest is separate from the best paper award sponsored by Legacy. Awards include a prize of $250 for first place and $150 for second place.

The following winning papers were selected among 32 entries:

First place
Julia Dauer, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “Maureen Cummins: Bookmaking and the Nineteenth-Century Archive”

Second place
Kimberly Farris, UNC Chapel Hill, “Educating the Nation: Pedagogical Nationalism and Female Utopias in Augusta Jane Evans’s Macaria”

Honorable Mention
Faune Albert, University of Massachusetts Amherst, “(Re)writing Histories in the Crossing: Natasha Trethewey and the Poetics of the Miscegenated Body”

Mark B. Kelley, University of California, San Diego, “‘An Offense without Feeling’: Confederate Pirates of Sympathy and Maria Cummins’s Haunted Hearts (1864).”

Selection Committee
Conseula Francis (College of Charleston)
Lisa West (Drake University)
Amy Hobbs Harris (Central State University)