2022 Winner
❖ First Place: Lindsay Wells, “Vegetal Movement, 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 Bronte’s Shirley”
❖ Honorable Mention: Megan O’Donnell, “Forms of Power: Energy and the Ecological Affordance of Victorian Fairies”