2024 Distinguished Scholar Award Recipients
In order to recognize career-long excellence in scholarship devoted to the writers of our period and the culture in which they lived, the Keats-Shelley Association of America has since 1981 conferred a Distinguished Scholar Award on not more than two awardees per year. Nominations for these awards are solicited from the K-SAA membership and adjudicated by the Board of Directors. The Awards are presented at K-SAA’s annual dinner at the Modern Language Association’s conference. Encomia for Award winners are published in the Keats-Shelley Journal.
The recipients of the 2024 distinguished scholar awards are Deidre Lynch (Harvard University) and Karen Swann (Williams College).
Deidre Lynch is Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature at Harvard University. Her work includes (co-ed. with Alexandra Gillespie), The Unfinished Book: Oxford Twenty-First Century Approaches to Literature (2021); (ed.) The Romantic Period, vol. D of The Norton Anthology of English Literature (2018); (ed.) Jane Austen, Mansfield Park: An Annotated Edition (2016); Loving Literature: A Cultural History (2015); (ed.) Janeites: Austen’s Disciples and Devotees (2000); The Economy of Character: Novels, Market Culture, and the Business of Inner Meaning (1998); (co-ed with William Warner) Cultural Institutions of the Novel (1996).
Karen Swann is Morris Professor of Rhetoric, Emerita at Williams College. Her work includes “John Clare: the sonnet ‘ill at rest,’” The Wordsworth Circle, Summer 2021; “Coleridge’s Later Poetry,” in The New Cambridge Companion to Coleridge, ed. Timothy Fulford (Cambridge UP, 2021); “The Butter Bump, a Magpie, John Clare,” Romanticism on the Net (online), Summer 2020; Lives of the Dead Poets: Keats, Shelley, Coleridge (Fordham University Press, LitZ series, 2018); “The Mask of Keats.” Romantic Circles Praxis Series (online), special issue on “Minimal; “Romanticism,” ed. David L. Clark and Jacques Khalip, Spring 2016; “Teaching Jerusalem,” ed. Jonathan Mulrooney 25:3 (June2014), 397-402.
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