Society Award Winners

The Fathman Young Scholar Award

Each year the Society awards a prize at its annual meeting to the best paper presented by an early-career scholar. Students and recent PhDs are eligible (degree received within the past four years for those not yet employed in a tenure-track position; the past two years for those holding tenure-track positions).

Awardees:

  • 2024: Ann Marie Jakubowski, Brenna Courtney
  • 2023: Isabelle Stuart, Christina Lambert
  • 2022: Steven Cullinane
  • 2021: Emma Felin, Matt Kilbane, Cécile Varry
  • 2020: Parker Gordon, Rachel Murray
  • 2019: Suzannah Evans, Michelle Taylor
  • 2018: Elysia Balavage, Naomi Gades
  • 2017: Annarose Steinke
  • 2016: Jack Baker, Kit Kumiko Toda
  • 2015: Kevin Rulo
  • 2014: Ria Banerjee, Mary Kim
  • 2013: Joshua Richards, Matt Seybold
  • 2012: Elizabeth Micakovic
  • 2011: Margaret Greaves, Charlotte Webb, J. T. Welsch
  • 2010: Christopher McVey
  • 2009: Aaron Bibb
  • 2008: Julia Daniel
  • 2007: Chad Parmenter
  • 2006: John Morgenstern
  • 2005: Matthew Bolton, Deric Corlew
  • 2004: Caterina Fornero, Will Gray, Iman Javadi
  • 2003: Frances Dickey, Randal Woods
  • 2002: Andrew Hawthorne, Aaron Jaffe, Rebecca Sutton Koeser, Alexandra Leader
  • 2001: Tom Day, Henry Laufenberg, Yisrael Levin
  • 2000: Katey Castellano, Marcia Karp, Christopher Wilkins
  • 1999: (No award)
  • 1998: Matthew Childs, Miriam Chirico, Lorne Mook
  • 1997: Charles Pollard, Jayme Stayer, Sonja Streuber
  • 1996: Chris Buttram, Holly Norton, Kathleen Ricker, Robert West
  • 1995: Peter Puchek, David Thompson
  • 1994: Lee Oser

The T. S. Eliot Studies Annual Prize

Each year the Society awards a prize, sponsored by the T. S. Eliot Studies Annual, to the best seminar paper written by an early-career scholar. Graduate students and recent PhDs are eligible (degree received within the past four years for those not yet employed in a tenure-track position; the past two years for those holding tenure-track positions).

Awardees:

  • 2024: Erin Yanota
  • 2023: Frances Wear
  • 2022: Isabelle Stuart
  • 2021: Jack L. Hart, Shannon McClernon, Gabriella Minden
  • 2020: Ann Marie Jakubowski
  • 2019: Cécile Varry
  • 2018: Sørina Higgins