2023 Winners
First Place: Alex Zivkovic, “Greenhouse Modernism: Vacuums, Atmospheres, and Racial Ecologies,”
Honorable Mention: Nikita Willeford Kastrinos, “Ecologies of the Page: Text and Textile in the ‘Papers’ of Pamela”
2022 Winner
First Place: Lindsay Wells, “Vegetal Movements, Charles Darwin, and the Landscape Art of John Everett Millais”
2021 Winners
First Place: Kyle McAuley, “Walter Scott’s Wilderness Borders”
First Place: Michelle Radnia, “Transplantation, Suburban Horticulture, and Sustainable Ecosystems in Keats’s Isabella; Or, the Pot of Basil
Honorable Mention: Sarah Bezan, “Darwinism of the Muck and Mire”
2020 Winners
First Place: Devin Garofalo, “When Figure Fails”
Honorable Mention: Kyle McAuley, “‘Lat.Long.’: Geographic Description and the Imperial Romance”
2019 Winners
First Place: Maddison McGann, “‘Dreaming of Dawn’: Anticipation in Charlotte Brontë’s Shirley“
Honorable Mention: Megan O’Donnell, “Forms of Power: Energy and the Ecological Affordance of Victorian Fairies”