The Call for Applications is Currently Closed
Editing and Translation Fellowship
Deadline: January 15, 2027
Award: $1500
The Editing and Translation Fellowship is an annual award made by the ASECS Women’s Caucus to support an editing or a translation work-in-progress of an eighteenth-century primary text by a woman writer or a work that significantly advances our understanding of women’s experiences in the eighteenth century. Projects typically fall within the period from 1660 to 1820. Editing and translation of eighteenth-century texts in languages other than English are eligible.
The award is meant to fund works-in-progress, commensurate in scope with a scholarly article to a longer scholarly and/or a classroom edition with a strong scholarly basis for which research and work is well under way, rather than work that is already completed.
The award is open to all members of ASECS who have received a PhD. Proposals from emeritae/i faculty that do not already have professional support for the project will also be considered.
The prize carries an award of $1500.
The award will be publicly announced at the annual ASECS meeting Women's Caucus luncheon. Historically, the award winner has served on the award selection committee for the subsequent year.
Within a year of the award announcement the winner must submit to the caucus chairs a brief written report on the progress of the project. Then the winner will receive a check or direct deposit from the ASECS office. Award winners should acknowledge this grant’s support in the publication that results from the project.
Applications must include an abbreviated curriculum vitae that lists achievements relevant to the project, a three-to-five-page proposal outlining the project, a two-page bibliography of pertinent works, and a budget explaining the candidate’s plans for using the funds.
Please submit your application here.
Deadline: January 15, 2027
Award: $1500
The Editing and Translation Fellowship is an annual award made by the ASECS Women’s Caucus to support an editing or a translation work-in-progress of an eighteenth-century primary text by a woman writer or a work that significantly advances our understanding of women’s experiences in the eighteenth century. Projects typically fall within the period from 1660 to 1820. Editing and translation of eighteenth-century texts in languages other than English are eligible.
The award is meant to fund works-in-progress, commensurate in scope with a scholarly article to a longer scholarly and/or a classroom edition with a strong scholarly basis for which research and work is well under way, rather than work that is already completed.
The award is open to all members of ASECS who have received a PhD. Proposals from emeritae/i faculty that do not already have professional support for the project will also be considered.
The prize carries an award of $1500.
The award will be publicly announced at the annual ASECS meeting Women's Caucus luncheon. Historically, the award winner has served on the award selection committee for the subsequent year.
Within a year of the award announcement the winner must submit to the caucus chairs a brief written report on the progress of the project. Then the winner will receive a check or direct deposit from the ASECS office. Award winners should acknowledge this grant’s support in the publication that results from the project.
Applications must include an abbreviated curriculum vitae that lists achievements relevant to the project, a three-to-five-page proposal outlining the project, a two-page bibliography of pertinent works, and a budget explaining the candidate’s plans for using the funds.
Please submit your application here.
Women’s Caucus Editing and Translation Prize Winners for 2026:
Aleksondra Hultquist, editor, Volume 6 of The Cambridge Edition of the Writings of Aphra Behn on Behn's Love-Letters between a Nobleman and his Sister.
Aleksondra Hultquist has undertaken a Cambridge Edition of an especially challenging text, Aphra Behn’s Love-Letters between a Nobleman and his Sister. A multi-volume novel rooted in historical figures and sexual scandal, Love-Letters entails annotation of complex political, literary, legal, and cultural contexts in an exhaustive manner that opens portals for other researchers; a substantial, authoritative introduction; and textual corrections and amendments. The Prize will support in-person collaboration with her co-editor, Elaine Hobby, facilitating more rapid progress on this multi-year project. The result—a richly annotated edition of a novel by a woman writer central to our field, highlighting the deeply gendered experiences of women characters—befits the Women’s Caucus’s mission and is very worthy of its support.
Aleksondra Hultquist, editor, Volume 6 of The Cambridge Edition of the Writings of Aphra Behn on Behn's Love-Letters between a Nobleman and his Sister.
Aleksondra Hultquist has undertaken a Cambridge Edition of an especially challenging text, Aphra Behn’s Love-Letters between a Nobleman and his Sister. A multi-volume novel rooted in historical figures and sexual scandal, Love-Letters entails annotation of complex political, literary, legal, and cultural contexts in an exhaustive manner that opens portals for other researchers; a substantial, authoritative introduction; and textual corrections and amendments. The Prize will support in-person collaboration with her co-editor, Elaine Hobby, facilitating more rapid progress on this multi-year project. The result—a richly annotated edition of a novel by a woman writer central to our field, highlighting the deeply gendered experiences of women characters—befits the Women’s Caucus’s mission and is very worthy of its support.
Past Winners
- 2025 Heather Heckman-McKenna: "The Long Eighteenth-Century Women's Diary Project"
- 2024 Juliette Paul: "Astrea's Brooke: A Digital Edition of Bodleian Library MS Firth c. 16"
- 2023 (two prizes awarded): Karenza Sutton-Bennett and Kelly Plante: "The Lady’s Museum Digital Project"
- 2023 (two prizes awarded): Kathleen Lubey: “The Literary and Philosophical Origins of Nineteenth-Century Pornography” Nineteenth-Century British Pornography: Sources and Materials
- 2022: Anna Ezekiel, "Philosophical Fragments by Karoline von Günderrode"
- 2021: Megan Peiser, "Editing Data for Peer Review and Ingestion: The Novels Reviewed Database, 1790-1820 and 18thConnect"
- 2020: No prize awarded.
- 2019: Angela Hunter, "Selections from Louise Dupin's Philosophical Treatise, The Work on Women"
- 2018: No prize awarded.
- 2017: Peggy Schaller Elliott, "Channeling Enlightenment Love: The Correspondence of Marie Le Prince de Beaumont and Thomas Tyrrell"
- 2016: Aleksondra Hultquist, "Editing of Aphra Behn's Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister for inclusion in the Cambridge edition of The Writings of Aphra Behn" and David Brewer, "Broadview editions of Penelope Aubin's The Life of Charlotta Du Pont (1723) and The Life of Madam de Beaumont (1721)"
- 2015: Dr. Aileen Douglas, scholarly edition of Elizabeth Sheridan's novel The Fairy Ring, or Emeline, a Moral Tale and
- Catherine Sama, "Rosalba Carriera (1673-1757): Correspondence of a Venetian Artist"
- 2014: No prize given.
- 2013: No prize given.
- 2012: Katharine Kittredge, “Examination of Documents by Melesina Trench for an Edition of her Journals”
- 2011: Catherine Maria Jaffee, “An Edition, Study, and Translation of the Collected Works of Maria Lorenza de los Rios, Marquesa de Fuerte-Hijar (1761-1821), with Biographical Essay
- 2010: No prize given.
- 2009: Mary Trouille, "Histoire de la Duchesse de C***"
- 2008: No prize given.
- 2007: Nicole Pohl, "The Collected Letters of Sarah Scott"
- 2006: Norbert Schürer, "The Correspondence of Charlotte Lennox"
- 2005: Jennifer Keith, The Complete Poems of Anne Finch: A Critical Edition
- 2004: Orianne Smith, "Editing of Helen Maria Williams's Julia (1790), a rewriting of Rousseau's La Nouvelle Héloïse"