Distinguished Scholar Award

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.

Nominate a Distinguished Scholar

2026 Award Recipients

  • Julia M. Wright

  • Richard C. Sha

Recipients of the Distinguished Scholar Award of the Keats-Shelley Association of America, Inc.

  • 2025

    Judith Pascoe

    Kelvin Everest

  • 2024

    Deidre Lynch

    Karen Swann

  • 2023 (San Francisco)

    Elizabeth Fay

    Greg Kucich

  • 2022 (Washington, D.C. and Online)

    Jon Klancher (presented by Jonathan Sachs)

    Nicola Watson (presented by Mary Favret)

  • 2021 (Online)

    Angela Easterhammer (presented by Ian Duncan)

    Orrin N. C. Wang (presented by Kate Singer)

  • 2020 (Seattle)

    Mary Favret (presented by Julie Carlson)

    Duncan Wu (presented by Susan Wolfson via Charles Mahoney)

  • 2019 (Chicago)

    Beth Lau (presented by Greg Kucich)

    Michael O’Neill (presented by Duncan Wu; awarded posthumously and received by Mark Sandy)

  • 2018 (New York)

    Alan Bewell (presented by Jonathan Mulrooney)

    Lisa Vargo (presented by Nora Crook

  • 2017 (Philadelphia)

    Pamela Clemit (presented by Michael Rossington)

    William Galperin (presented by Susan Wolfson)

  • 2016 (Austin)

    Mary Jacobus (presented by Alexander Regier)

    Kenneth Johnston (presented by Nicholas Roe)

  • 2015 (Vancouver)

    Ina Ferris (presented by Deidre Lynch)

    Nicholas Roe (presented by Jeffrey Cox)

  • 2014 (Chicago)

    Jerrold Hogle (presented by Michael Gamer)

    Steven Jones (presented by Orianne Smith)

  • 2013 (Boston)

    Marjorie Levinson (presented by Andrea Henderson)

    David Wagenknecht (presented by Charles Rzepka)

  • 2012 (Seattle)

    Frances Ferguson (presented by Andrew Franta)

    Marshall Brown (presented by Gary Handwerk)

  • 2010/11 (Los Angeles)

    Christopher Ricks (presented by Susan Wolfson)

    Julie Carlson (presented by Mary A. Favret and Sonia Hofkosh)

  • 2009 (Philadelphia)

    Jeffrey Cox (presented by Mark Lussier)

    Timothy Webb (presented by Charles Robinson)

  • 2008 (San Francisco)

    Alan Richardson (presented by Ashton Nichols)

    Doucet Devin Fischer (presented by Jeanne Moskal)

  • 2007 (Chicago)

    Paula Feldman (introduced in the K-SJ by Daniel Robinson)

    James Chandler (presented by Julie Carlson)

  • 2006 (Philadelphia)

    Nora Crook (presented by Lisa Vargo)

    Michael Henry Scrivener (presented by Terence Hoagwood)

  • 2005 (Washington, D.C.)

    Tilottama Rajan

    Stephen Behrendt

  • 2004 (Philadelphia)

    Theresa Kelley

    Charles Rzepka

  • 2003 (San Diego)

    Hermione de Almeida

  • 2002 (New York)

    Morton D. Paley

  • 2001 (New Orleans)

    Neil Fraistat

    Susan J. Wolfson

  • 2000 (Washington, D.C.)

    Nancy Goslee

    Robert Ryan

  • 1999 (Chicago)

    John Clubbe

    Anne K. Mellor

  • 1998 (San Francisco)

    Frederick Burwick

    Marilyn Gaull

  • 1997 (Toronto)

    Geoffrey H. Hartman

    William Keach

  • 1996 (Washington, D.C.)

    Peter J. Manning

    Marion K. Stocking

  • 1995 (Chicago)

    Charles E. Robinson

    Emily Sunstein

  • 1994 (San Diego)

    Helen Vendler

  • 1993 (Toronto)

    Milton Wilson

    Ross Woodman

  • 1992 (New York)

    Betty T. Bennett

    Stuart Curran

  • 1991 (San Francisco)

    Robert F. Gleckner

    Peter L. Thorslev, Jr.

  • 1990 (Chicago)

    David Perkins

    Karl Kroeber

  • 1989 (Washington, D.C.)

    Jerome J. McGann

  • 1988 (New Orleans)

    Morse Peckham

    Stuart M. Sperry

  • 1987 (San Francisco)

    M.H. Abrams

    Donald H. Reiman

  • 1986 (New York)

    Jack Stillinger

  • 1985 (Chicago)

    Richard Harter Fogle

  • 1984 (Washington, D.C.)

    Carlos Baker

    Willard B. Pope

  • 1983 (New York)

    Aileen Ward

    Ralph M. Wardle

  • 1982 (Los Angeles)

    Kenneth Neill Cameron

    David V. Erdman

    Carl Woodring

  • 1981 (New York)

    Leslie A. Marchand

    Walter Jackson Bate