Best Graduate Student Essay
All graduate students who present papers at the ISSN Annual Conference are invited to compete for the prize for the best graduate-student paper of the 2008 conference. The winner will receive a copy of a Perkins Prize-winning book of his or her choice and will be invited to expand the winning paper and submit it for consideration by Narrative. The latest call for nominations can be found at our blog:
Call for Nominations: Best Graduate Student Paper
Past Prize Winners
2008
Rachel Hertz Cobb (University of Texas), "'Not All We See Is Worth Hoarding': Minutes, Hours, and Days in George Meredith’s The Egoist"
Julianne Werlin, "Sidney’s Narrator and the Limits of the Arcadia World"
2007
Matthew Garrett (Stanford University), "Early U.S. Novels: Episodic Structure and the Problem of Social Cohesion"
2006
Sarah Copland (University of Toronto), "The Seeing As Trope in Chiang Yee's Silent Traveller Narratives"
Honorable Mentions
Elizabeth F. Evans (University of Wisconsin-Madison), "Maps and Tours: The Spatial Form of Woolf's The Years"
Heather Morton (University of Virginia), "Can You Forgive Him? Alice and the Man who Plotted Her"
2005
Jesse Rosenthal, "Pip's Choices: Autonomy, Ethics, and Narrative Desire"