C19 Rising Scholar Prize

The C19 Rising Scholar Prize recognizes the top paper presented at the 2024 C19: Reconstructions Conference by a member in the early stages of their career. The prize comes with an award of $250.

The C19 Rising Scholar Prize Committee is thrilled to announce that the winner of the 2024 Rising Scholar Prize is Eagan Dean for their paper “Magnetism and the Strange Child: Spiritualist Prehistories of Transness in Cecil Dreeme.”

Honorable mentions (alphabetical order):

Annie Persons, “Hawthorne and the (Ongoing) Age of Coal”

Madeline Zehnder, “William J. Wilson’s Object Lesson: Reading Childhood in ‘The Afric-American Picture Gallery’”

Our gratitude goes to the 2024 Rising Scholar Selection Committee:

Martha Schoolman (chair), Florida International University

Greta LaFleur, Yale University

Duncan Faherty, Queens College and The Graduate Center, CUNY

Past awardees

2022 C19 Rising Scholar Prize

Clare Mullaney, “Textual Recovery: ‘Wildering Language’ and a Crip Editorial Practice”

Honorable Mentions (in alphabetical order):

Eve Eure, “Reconstructing the Language of the Black Settler”

Courtney Murray, “Rebirthing of Henry Box Brown: Interstitial/Feminine Infused Spaces, Places, and Structures in Nineteenth-Century Narratives”

2020 C19 Inaugural Rising Scholar Prize

Ben Pokross, “Materializing the Vanished: Simon Pokagon’s Birch Bark Rebuke”

Honorable Mentions (in alphabetical order):

Daniella Cádiz Bedini, “‘The Lost Boy of Cuba’: Translation and Affective Reinterpretation in Blake; Or, the Huts of America”

Andrew Erlandson, “Intemperate Reform: Crip Associations in Walt Whitman’s Franklin Evans”

Don James McLaughlin, “In Defense of Miasma: Microscopic Myopia in Rebecca Harding Davis and Fitz-James O’Brien’s ‘The Diamond Lens’”

Prize Committee: Anna Brickhouse (chair), Ren Heintz, and Greg Laski