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The Catharine Macaulay Prize Winner  for 2022: 
Ziona Kocker, "The “Pretty Young Gentleman: Age, Embodiment, and Queerness in The Country Wife”
 
Ziona Kocher gives us a new reading of The Country Wife by considering the performance of Elizabeth Boutell, who played Margery Pinchwife, and her melding of feminine innocence and masculine dress. The argument explores how gender fluidity is created through the crossdressing figure to layer masculinity and femininity in complex exchanges that center space for same-sex desire. With adept close readings that impressively connect to past and existing scholarship in a short amount of pages and a lively and engaging writing style, Kocher brings new interpretation to a canonical play in discussions of gender and sexuality.  
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The Catharine Macaulay Prize
Deadline for submission: September 1, 2022
The Catharine Macaulay Prize is an annual award made by the Women’s Caucus of ASECS for the best graduate student paper on a feminist or gender studies subject presented at the ASECS Annual Meeting or at any of the regional meetings during the academic year.  In addition to special recognition, the prize carries a cash award of $500.  

To be eligible for the prize, papers must advance understanding of gender dynamics, women’s experience, and/or women's contributions to eighteenth-century culture, or offer a feminist analysis of any aspect of eighteenth-century culture and/or society. 

The paper you submit for the prize should be the one you presented at the conference without expansion or significant revision.  

Submissions for the Catharine Macaulay Prize must be sent directly to the ASECS office for consideration.  SUNY Buffalo State College, 1300 Elmwood Avenue, Ketchum Hall 213, Buffalo, NY 14222;   or as an email attachment (Word):  asecsoffice@gmail.com).  

The winner of the prize will be notified soon after the committee has made its decision and will be announced at the following year’s annual meeting and the Women's Caucus luncheon. 
Past Winners
  • 2020: Rachel Gevlin, "Voluntary Celibates; Or, Why Sir Charles Grandison is (a) No Wanker"
  • 2019: Bethany Qualls, "Talking Statues, Treasonous Bishops, and Grave Robbery: Creating the Celebrated Sally Salisbury’s Print Afterlives”
  • Honorable mention: Erin A. Spampinato, “The Origins of the Rape-As-Aberration Plot; or, was Samuel Richardson a Second Wave Feminist?”
  • 2018: Kate Ozment, "Book History, Women, and the Canon: Theorizing Feminist Bibliography"
  • Honorable mention: Paris Spies-Gans, "'Exercising it as a profession': The Rise of the Female Artist in London and Paris, 1760-1815"
  • 2017: Cassie Childs, "Eating Local: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's Italian Garden"
  • 2016: Lauren Miskin, "Stitching Selfhood: Late Eighteenth-Century Samplers and the Crafting of British Femininity"
  • 2015: Rachael Schaffner, "Matters of Imag(in)ed Memory and Happy Forgetting in Frances Burney's Camilla"
  • 2014:  Megan Hunt, "Women Without History"
  • Honorable Mentions: 
  • Michael Nicholson, "A Singular Experiment"
  • Arelene Leis, "Intellectual Collecting as Sociable Display"
  • 2013:  Glenda Goodman, “The Economy of Accomplishment: Aesthetics and Labor in Women’s Musical Lives” 
  • 2012: Kate Hamilton, “She ‘came up Stairs into the World’: Elizabeth Barry and Restoration Celebrity”
  • 2011: Susan Muse, “From Femme Covert to Feme Overt: Public Justice in Eliza Haywood’s The Distress’d Orphan” and Edward Kozaczka, “Queer Gardens: Cultivating Desire in Penelope Aubin’s Lucinda" 
  • 2010: Julia H. Fawcett, "Charlotte Charke and the Over-Expression of Gender"
  • 2009: Caroline Wigginton, "Faithful Translations: Reconsidering Coosaponakeesa's Acts of Interpretive Authorship on the Creek Frontier"
  • 2008: Sonja Boon, "Does a Dutiful Wife Write, or, Should Suzanna Get Divorced? Reflections on Suzanne Cuchod Necker, Divorce, and the Construction of the Biological Subject"
  • 2007: JoEllen DeLucia, "'Beyond the Narrow House': The Ossian Poems, Gender, and Empire"
  • 2006: No prize given.
  • 2005: No prize given.
  • 2004: Elizabeth Bennet, "Divergent Paths to Virtue in the Lives and Writings of Elizabeth Carter and Catherine Talbot"
  • 2003: Melissa Ganz, "Moll Flanders and English Marriage Law"
  • 2002: Andrew Piper, "Lost in Translation: German Women Translators around 1800"
  • 2001: Jord/ana Rosenberg, "The Bosom of the Bourgeoisie"
  • 2000: Anita de Freitas Boe, "'Neither Is It All Becoming': Edmund Burke's A Philosophic Enquiry, the Beautiful, and the Disciplining of Desire"
  • 1999: Theresa Ann Smith, "The Proposal for a Female National Dress in Eighteenth-Century Spain"
  • 1998: Lisa Zunshine: "'What door would it open to scandal...': Female Philanthropy and the London Foundling Hospitals"
  • 1997: Elizabeth Child, "Geography, Gender, and Print Culture: [Re]Locating England's Provincial Women Writers"
  • 1996: Mary Catherine Moran, "Eighteenth-Century Conduct Literature and Scottish Conjectural History on the Role of Women in the Progress of Mankind" 
  • 1995: Melissa Hyde, "Ambiguities of Gender Identity in François Boucher's Pastoral Paintings"
  • 1994: Rebecca Messbarger, "Masked Resistance: A Woman's Defense of Women's Education in Eighteenth-Century Italy"
  • 1993: Alessa Johns, "Engendering Utopias: Examples from Mid-Eighteenth-Century England"
  • 1992: Charlotte Sussman, "Consuming Anxieties: Women and the Politics of Sugar, 1792"
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  • About
    • Board
    • Past Caucus Chairs
    • Past Caucus Panels
    • Women's Caucus History
  • Announcements
    • ASECS Town Hall
    • ASECS Policies on Sexual Harassment and Professional Conduct
  • Prizes and Awards
    • Émilie Du Châtelet Award
    • Women's Caucus Editing and Translation Award
    • Catherine Macaulay Graduate Student Prize
    • Women's Caucus Intersectional Award
  • Publications
    • CFPs
  • Members
    • Past Members of the Month
  • Mentoring
    • Invisible Service
  • Donors
  • Contact Us