RMMLA-Women's Caucus Award for Best Feminist
Essay
Given at the RMMLA Convention
The Women's Caucus and the RMMLA offer the RMMLA-Women's Caucus Award
for the best essay presented at the RMMLA convention employing
techniques of feminist criticism. Coordination and funding is
provided by the RMMLA Executive Board. The RMMLA Women's Caucus
arranges readers and a selection process. The award carries with it
a $100 prize.
Papers from the RMMLA convention in Boulder, Colorado which address feminist
ideas or employ feminist theory are eligible for the 2012 competition. To apply, submit a copy of the
essay (written in English only) and a one-page CV BY EMAIL ATTACHMENT TO rmmla@rmmla.org by
January 1. Print applications will no longer be accepted.
The winner of the award is announced by March 1 and will serve on
the selection committee for the following year's competition.
Recent RMMLA-Women's Caucus Award recipients:
- 2011 Ina Seethaler (Saint Louis University)
"Writing against the Exoticization of Transnational Adoption:
Trauma and Memory in Jane Jeong Trenka's The Language of Blood. "
- 2010 Melissa Birkhofer (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
"Toward a Feminist Latina Mode of Literary Analysis: Julia Alvarez’s
How the García Girls Lost Their Accents "
- [2009 - No recipient]
- 2008 Elizabeth Sheehan (University of Virginia)
"Fashioning the New Negro Woman: The Aesthetics and Politics of Dress in the
Crisis and Nella Larsen's Quicksand"
- 2007 Precious McKenzie-Stearns (University of South Florida)
"Mary Kingsley:'Set yourself to gain personal power.'"
- 2006 Lisa Byrd (University of Tennessee)
"Spectacle of Strangeness: Anti-masque Nature in Jonson's Masque of Queens,"
- 2005 Janna Knittel (St. Cloud State University)
"Privilege in Confinement: Emily Dickinson's Poetic Form."
- 2004 Douglas W. Werden (West Texas A & M University)
"'She kept an air of secrecy and importance to the last':
Abortion in Sarah Orne Jewett's The Country of the Pointed Figs."
- 2003 Genevieve Gabrielle Generaux (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)
"The Development of Queen Guinevere:
Character Foil Turned Political Faction."
- 2002 - Margaret Lowry (Texas Christian University)
"Narrative of Nation, Narrative of Home: Autobiographical
Cultural Critique in Caroline Kirkland’s A New Home, Who’ll
Follow?"
- 2001 - Robbin D. Crabtree and David Alan Sapp (Fairfield
University [CT])
"Theoretical, Political, and Pedagogical Challenges in the
Feminist Classroom: Our Struggles to Walk the Walk."
- 2000 - Lori Maybee Reagan (Auburn University)
"Gendering the Hetero/Homosexual Body: The Role of the Critic in
Constructing Gender and Ideology in M. Butterfly."
- 1999 - Katherine Harris (City University of New York)
"Imoinda's Heroism as the 'Inappropriate Other' in Aphra Behn's Oroonoko and Thomas Southerne's
Oroonoko: A Tragedy."
- 1998 - H. Jordan Landry (University of Colorado)
"Queering Abolitionist Discourse on Black Women: The Female
Trickster-Rogue in Harriet E. Wilson's Our Nig."
- 1997 - Ann A. Huse (Washington University)
"'The Copy Greater Than Th'Original': Cultural Competition and
Gender in Katherine Philips's Pompey."
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