Émilie Du Châtelet Award Winner for 2023:
Jennifer Golightly: "Genre, Gender-Bending, and the Marriage Plot in British Fiction of the Late 18th Century"
Golightly's work is borne out of last year’s panel from Ziona Kocher’s “Hardcore Heroines.” The novel that she is conducting research on, entitled The Magnanimous Amazon; Or Adventures of Theresia, Baronness Van Hoog, with Anecdotes of Other Eccentric Persons, first published in 1796, follows the exploits of Theresia, an independent young woman who, upon the death of her father and the presumed loss of her fiancé, determines that she will dress herself as a man and travel across Europe, sword-fighting, horse-riding, and righting wrongs. The novel flirts with a variety of fictional subgenres, particularly the sentimental novel,but also the courtship novel, a form very nearly subverted in the text by the danger that Theresia might become a female husband.
Jennifer Golightly: "Genre, Gender-Bending, and the Marriage Plot in British Fiction of the Late 18th Century"
Golightly's work is borne out of last year’s panel from Ziona Kocher’s “Hardcore Heroines.” The novel that she is conducting research on, entitled The Magnanimous Amazon; Or Adventures of Theresia, Baronness Van Hoog, with Anecdotes of Other Eccentric Persons, first published in 1796, follows the exploits of Theresia, an independent young woman who, upon the death of her father and the presumed loss of her fiancé, determines that she will dress herself as a man and travel across Europe, sword-fighting, horse-riding, and righting wrongs. The novel flirts with a variety of fictional subgenres, particularly the sentimental novel,but also the courtship novel, a form very nearly subverted in the text by the danger that Theresia might become a female husband.
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Émilie Du Châtelet Award deadline for submission: January 15, 2024
The Émilie Du Châtelet Award is an annual prize of $500 made by the Women's Caucus of ASECS to support research in progress by an independent or adjunct scholar on a feminist or Women's Studies subject. The award is open to the members of ASECS who have received the PhD and who do not currently hold a tenured, tenure-track, or job-secure position in a college or university, nor any permanent position that requires or supports the pursuit of research. Faculty emeritae are not eligible. The award is meant to fund works in progress, commensurate in scope with a scholarly article or book chapter, for which some research is already under way. To be eligible for the prize, projects must advance understanding of women's experiences and/or contributions to eighteenth-century culture or offer a feminist analysis of any aspect of eighteenth-century culture and/or society. Applications must include a curriculum vitae, a 1-3 page research proposal outlining the project and the candidate's plans for using the funds, and any evidence of progress on this project (i.e. an accepted conference paper, a related publication, an essay submitted for publication, etc.).The winner will be asked to submit a brief written report on the progress of the project one year after receiving the award, and wherever possible, will serve on the Award committee in the following year. The winner will be announced at the Women's Caucus Luncheon and during the annual meeting. The prizewinner will be announced at the ASECS annual meeting. Submissions for the Émilie Du Châtelet Prize must be sent directly to the ASECS office and be received by January 15 for consideration. Please upload a single PDF containing the following to this Google Form: a curriculum vitae, a 1-3 page research proposal outlining the project and the candidate's plans for using the funds, and evidence of progress on this project (i.e., an accepted conference paper, a related publication, an essay submitted for publication, etc.). |
Past Winners
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