The Alan Nadel Award for the 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 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 Award is named in honor of Alan Nadel, the William T. Bryan Chair of American Literature and Culture at the University of Kentucky.
The papers given in Lexington are to be judged by Tara MacDonald and Per Krogh Hansen.
The latest call for nominations can be found at our blog:
Call for Nominations: The Alan Nadel Award for the Best Graduate Student Paper
Current Prize Winner
2020
Kimaya M. Thakur: “Remixed Narratives: The Dichotomy of Cinematic Adaptations.”
Past Prize Winners
2019
Esko Suoranta (University of Helsinki), “Failing to Depict Systemic Change in Dave Eggers and William Gibson”.
Honorable mention: Emma Eisenberg, “Modelling Milieu in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Cranford”
2018
Siebe Buijis, Ghent University, “Unnatural Acoustic Spaces in Radio Drama: An Audiological Approach to Narrative Space.”
Honorable Mention: Antonino Sorci, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3, “Aristotelian and/or Nietzschean Narratology."
2017
Valentina Montero-Román, University of Michigan, “Black Women with ‘Real Brains’: Historicizing Unreliable Focalization in Nella Larsen’s Passing.”
2016
Ivan Delazari, Hong Kong Baptist University, “Diegetic Music in Narrative Fiction: Who is Listening, and What is Heard?”
2015
Bridget Donnelly, University of North Carolina, "'Anything could have happened': Unplotting Historical Contingency in Contemporary Hybrid Detective Novels"
2014
Matthew Phillips, Rutgers University, "Thackeray, Character Types, and Victorian Realism"
2013
Nathan Shank, University of Kentucky, "Empathy as Irony in Cognitive Narrative Studies"
2012
Elizabeth Alsop, CUNY Grad Center, "Consensual Speaking in The Ambassadors"
2011
Hannah Courtney, University of New South Wales (Australia): “The Temporality of Consciousness: Thought Representation and the Slowed Scene in Ian McEwan’s Fiction”
Honorable Mention: Jeanne-Marie Jackson, Yale University: “Retreating Reality: Chekhov’s South African Afterlives”
2010
Lasse Gammelgaard, "Lyric and Narrative in Tennyson’s Maud”
2009
Adam Grener (Cornell University), "Dickensian Coincidence and the Textual Logic of Serial Production"
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"