Charles Davis Award for the Outstanding Graduate
Student Presentation at the RMMLA Convention
Charles Davis, Professor Emeritus of English at Boise State
University, served as Executive Director of the Rocky Mountain
Modern Language Association for twelve years, from 1985 through
1997. During his tenure, the Association grew significantly in
number of members and in prestige, and the Rocky Mountain Review
of Language and Literature published articles of great interest
to the membership. For his service to the RMMLA and his support of
graduate students and young scholars, the Executive Board
established in 2000 the "Charles Davis Award for the Outstanding
Graduate Student Presentation at the RMMLA Convention."
The Charles Davis Award carries a $100 prize. There were two recipients of the 2008
prize: Lindsay Christopher (University of Denver) for "Mapping the Garden: The Geographical Imagination in Toni Morrison’s
Paradise." and Michael Bachmann (University of Mainz, Germany), for "Writing Fiction, Talking Life: Wiesel, Kertész and
Problems of Genre." The full text of the winning proposal(s) will be published in the fall issue of The Rocky Mountain Review
Runner-up awards ($50 each) were given to Tamara Cooper (New York University) and Denice Turner (University of
Nevada, Reno).
Application procedure:
- Nominations must be made by the Chair of the
session in which the student presented. Nominations are sent to the
Secretariat by November 1.
- Nominees will be contacted and asked to submit the presentation (written in English only) in a 'publishable' form BY EMAIL ATTACHMENT to the Secretariat,
e-postmarked no later than December 15. Print applications will no longer be accepted. NB: By 'publishable' is meant either
a traditional paper format or, if the presentation was a PowerPoint
presentation or similar, that copies of the PowerPoint slides must
be accompanied by a fairly traditional paper-like narrative.)
The Davis Award Selection Committee is made up of two RMMLA Board
members and the previous year's winner. Selection is based first on the completeness of the application,
followed by a ranking based on five criteria: originality of research; scholarly context (reference to current
research on topic); mechanics and style; coherent thesis statement; and
contribution to scholarship in the field of study. The award will be announced
by March 1.
Recent Davis Award recipients:
- 2007 - Amy Hamilton (University of Arizona)
"'You better keep right on walking':
Remembering Migration and Removal in American Indian Women's Poetry"
AND
Wendy Roberts (Northwestern University)
"Regionalizing Christianity:
Charles Sheldon's In His Steps in the Context
of Regionalist Fiction."
2007 Runners-up - Jordan Green (University of Oregon) and Matthew
Landers (Louisiana State University)
- 2006 - Hilda Ma (The State University of New York at Buffalo)
"The Medicalization of ‘Midnight Hags’: Macbeth and Witchcraft in
Early Modern England"
AND
Cynthia Schoolar Williams (Tufts University)
"Reading the Lactating Body in John Webster’s The White Devil."
2006 Runner-up - Graham Lyons (Simon Fraser University)
- 2005 - Almila Ozdek (George Washington University)
"Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres: Earth and Body as the Object of
Capitalist Ownership."
2005 Runner-up - Hannah Lavery (University of Sheffield)
- 2004 - Melissa Hussain (Washington State University)
"The Political Economy of Anger: A Hermeneutic for Third World
Women's Texts" presented at the Women's Voices in Prose session
AND
2004 - Hans-Georg Erney (Emory University)
"Modernity in South Asian Literature: An Exercise in Postcolonial
Ecocriticism" presented in the Ecocriticism session
2004 Runners-up - Tim Gruenewald ( University of Washington) and Wendy R. Miller Roberts (University of Arizona)
- 2003 - Caroline E. Wiebe Kimberly (Tulane University)
"Man or Myth?: The Writing of John Keats."
- 2002 - Elizabeth Gruber, University of Nevada, Reno
"Erotic Politics Reconsidered: Marriage and Miscegenation in
The Merchant of Venice."
- 2001 (First Award), Linda Naranjo-Huebl (University of
Colorado at Boulder)
"Attractive Oppression: The Breakdown of Intersubjectivity and
the Erotics of Dominiation and Subordination in The Wide,
Wide World, and Our Nig."
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