Recipients of the Distinguished Scholar Award of the Keats-Shelley Association of America, Inc.
The directors of the Keats-Shelley Association welcome nominations from members of the Association for scholars who might appropriately be honored in the future.
2009 (Philadelphia)
Jeffry Cox (presented by Mark Lussier)
Timothy Webb (presented by Charles Robinson)
2008 (San Francisco)
Alan Richardson (presented by Ashton Nichols)
Doucet Devin Fischer (presented by Jeanne Moskal)
2007 (Chicago)
Paula Feldman (introduced in the K-SJ by Daniel Robinson)
James Chandler (presented by Julie Carlson)
2006 (Philadelphia)
Nora Crook (presented by Lisa Vargo)
Michael Henry Scrivener (presented by Terence Hoagwood)
2005 (Washington, D.C.)
Tilottama Rajan (presented by David L. Clark)
Stephen Behrendt (presented by Kevin Binfield)
2004 (Philadelphia)
Theresa M. Kelley
Charles Rzepka
2003 (San Diego)
Hermione de Almeida (presented by Ben P. Robertson, Troy State University, Alabama)
2002 (New York)
Morton D. Paley (presented by Donald H. Reiman)
2001 (New Orleans)
Neil Fraistat (presented by Stuart Curran)
Susan J. Wolfson (presented by Peter J. Manning)
2000 (Washington)
Nancy Goslee (presented by Teresa Kelley)
Robert Ryan (presented by Regina Hewitt)
1999 (Chicago)
John Clubbe (presented by Peter Manning)
Anne K. Mellor (presented by Clifford Siskin)
1998 (San Francisco)
Frederick Burwick (presented by Grant Scott)
Marilyn Gaull (presented by Peter Manning)
1997 (Toronto) Robert M. Ryan presiding
Geoffrey H. Hartman (presented by Frances Ferguson)
William Keach (presented by Anne Janowitz)
[Frederick L. Beaty was nominated but could not attend the Awards Dinner]
1996 (Washington, D.C.) Stuart Curran presiding
Peter J. Manning (presented by Susan J. Wolfson)
Marion K. Stocking (presented by Donald H. Reiman)
1995 (Chicago) Stuart Curran presiding
Charles E. Robinson (presented by Betty T. Bennett)
Emily Sunstein (presented by Jeanne Moskal)
1994 (San Diego) Betty T. Bennett presiding
Helen Vendler (presented by Hermione de Almeida)
[Christopher Ricks was nominated, but would not attend MLA]
1993 (Toronto) Betty T. Bennett presiding
Milton Wilson (presented by J. Douglas Kneale)
Ross Woodman (presented by Tilottama Rajan)
1992 (New York) William T. Buice III presiding
Betty T. Bennett (presented by Charles E. Robinson)
Stuart Curran (presented by Neil Fraistat)
1991 (San Francisco) William T. Buice III presiding
Robert F. Gleckner (presented by Jerome C. Christensen)
Peter L. Thorslev, Jr. (presented by Frederick L. Burwick)
1990 (Chicago) Stuart Curran presiding
David Perkins (presented by Paul D. Sheats)
Karl Kroeber (presented by Michael C. Neth)
1989 (Washington) William T. Buice III presiding
Jerome J. McGann (presented by Marjorie Levinson)
[Harold Bloom, though nominated by the Directors would not attend the Dinner to receive the Award]
1988 (New Orleans) Betty T. Bennett presiding
Morse Peckham (presented by L.J. Swingle)
Stuart M. Sperry (presented by Leon Waldoff)
1987 (San Francisco): Jack Stillinger presiding
M. H. Abrams (presented by Stuart Curran)
Donald H. Reiman (presented by Neil Fraistat)
1986 (New York): William T. Buice III, host; David V. Erdman presiding
Jack Stillinger (presented by Beth Lau)
1985 (Chicago): Carl Woodring presiding
Richard Harter Fogle (presented by Mary Lynn Johnson [Grant])
[Truman Guy Steffan, though nominated by the Directors, was unable to attend the Annual Awards Dinner]
1984 (Washington): Donald H. Reiman presiding
Carlos Baker (presented by George Bornstein)
Willard B. Pope (presented by Leonidas M. Jones)
1983 (New York): William T. Buice III, host; Donald H. Reiman presiding
Aileen Ward (presented by Mary Ann Shea, reading citation by Irene Tayler)
Ralph M. Wardle (presented by Emily Sunstein)
1982 (Los Angeles): Donald H. Reiman presiding
Kenneth Neill Cameron (presented by Betty T. Bennett)
David V. Erdman (presented by Stuart Curran)
Carl Woodring (presented by Hermione de Almeida)
1981 (New York): Lola L. Szladits presiding
Leslie A. Marchand (presented by John Clubbe)
Walter Jackson Bate (presented by Stuart M. Sperry)
Recipients of the Keats-Shelley Journal Essay Prize
2009: Brendan Corcoran, “Keats’s Death: Towards a Posthumous Poetics," Studies in Romanticism 48.2 (Summer 2009), 321-48.
2008: Timothy Morton, "John Clare's Dark Ecology," Studies in Romanticism 47.2 (Summer 2008), 179-93.
2007: Stephen Cheeke, "'What So Many Have Told, Who Would Tell Again?': Romanticism and the Commonplaces of Rome," European Romantic Review (December 2006).
2005: Mary Favret, "Everyday War" ELH 72.3 (2005), 605-33; and Jennifer Jones, "Sounds Romantic: the Castrato and English Poetics Around 1800," in Romanticism and Opera, ed. Gillen D'Arcy Wood, Romantic Circles Praxis (May 2005)
2003: Charles Rzepka, "'Cortez--or Balboa, or Somebody Like That': Form, Fact, and Forgetting in Keats's 'Chapman's Homer' Sonnet." Keats-Shelley Journal 51 (2002): 35-75.
2002: Denise Gigante, "Keats's Nausea," Studies in Romanticism 40 (2001); Honorable Mention: Andrew Elfenbein, "Byron and the Fantasy of Compensation," European Romantic Review 12.3 (Summer 2001).
2001: Gary Dyer, "Thieves, Boxers, Sodomites, Poets: Being Flash to Byron's Don Juan (PMLA); runner-up: Deidre Lynch, "Gothic Libraries and National Subjects"
2000: Tricia Lootens, "Receiving the Legend, Rethinking the Writer: Letitia Landon and the Poetess Tradition"
1999: Noah Herringman, "Stones So Wondrous Cheap" (SiR)
1998: Ina Ferris, "Writing on the Border: the National Tale, Female Writing, and the Public Sphere," in Romanticism, History, and the Possibility of Genre, ed. Tilottama Rajan and Julia Wright (CUP, 1998)
1997: Maureen Noelle McLane, "Literature Species: Populations, 'Humanities,' and Frankenstein" (ELH)