Émilie Du Châtelet Award Winner 2021: Dr. Sarabeth Grant
Dr. Sarabeth Grant’s project, "Frightful Extravagancies: Passion, Society, and the Self in Eliza Haywood," offers a major reassessment of Haywood's work by considering the titular issues across the breadth of the author's long career. The focus on Eliza Haywood’s persistent interest on passion and its role in “connecting us to others” is timely and relevant. At a time when isolation and lockdowns have become the norm, this project provides an important reflection on how an eighteenth-century novelist underscores social interconnectedness. As she explains, Haywood reaches out to her “reading audience in an accessible and entertaining way” by creating characters that grow through their social relations and writing “with both male and female edification in mind.” Haywood’s writings and liberal conceptions tackle notions of self-reflection, isolation, and social constrains, all of which Grant aims to reflect upon, and are critically needed today.
Dr. Sarabeth Grant’s project, "Frightful Extravagancies: Passion, Society, and the Self in Eliza Haywood," offers a major reassessment of Haywood's work by considering the titular issues across the breadth of the author's long career. The focus on Eliza Haywood’s persistent interest on passion and its role in “connecting us to others” is timely and relevant. At a time when isolation and lockdowns have become the norm, this project provides an important reflection on how an eighteenth-century novelist underscores social interconnectedness. As she explains, Haywood reaches out to her “reading audience in an accessible and entertaining way” by creating characters that grow through their social relations and writing “with both male and female edification in mind.” Haywood’s writings and liberal conceptions tackle notions of self-reflection, isolation, and social constrains, all of which Grant aims to reflect upon, and are critically needed today.
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Émilie Du Châtelet Award
Deadline for submission: January 15, 2022 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. Send FIVE COPIES of eligible proposals to: ASECS (Emilie Du Chatelet Prize) SUNY Buffalo State College 1300 Elmwood Avenue Ketchum Hall 213 Buffalo, NY 14222 asecsoffice@gmail.com 716-878-3405 |
Past Winners
2020: Cristina Martinez, "Jane Hogarth: The Untold Story of an 18th-Century Printseller and Defender of Copyright Law" 2019: Freya Gowerly, "Collage before Modernism? Periodization, Gender and Eighteenth-Century Women's Collage" 2018: Kristin O'Rourke, Toilettes 2017: Nicole Garret, "'Alter'd Courses of Action': Maternal Grief and Radical Change on the Eighteenth-Century English Stage" 2016: No prize given. 2015: Dr. Anna Ezekiel, Karoline von Günderrode 2014: No prize given. 2013: No prize given. 2012: A. L. Gust, “Portraits of Exile: ‘civilisation’ and the conceptualization of belonging, c. 1765-1830” 2011: Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell, “When Fashion Sets Sail: Maritime Modes in Pre-Revolutionary France” 2010: No prize given. 2009: Emily Bowles-Smith, "Mixed-gender Bodies and Mixed Genders: The Role of the 'Female Husband' in Eighteenth-Century Prose Narratives by Women" 2008: No prize given. 2007: Olga E. Glagoleva, "Women's Honor, or the Story with a Pig: Everyday Life of Noblewomen in the Eighteenth-Century Russian Provinces" 2006: No prize given. 2005: No prize given. 2004: Susan B. Iwanisziw, "Interracial Concubinage in the Long Eighteenth Century: Two Exemplary Women" 2003: Kathleen M. Oliver, "'The Intended Heroine of this Work': The Adolescent Female in Georgian Society, 1714-1830" |
