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The Monroe K. Spears Award:
SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900
The Monroe K. Spears Award
is presented annually
to honor the distinguished and humane career of
the late Professor Monroe K. Spears,
sometime editor of the Sewanee Review and
Libbie Shearn Moody Professor Emeritus
at Rice University.
Because everything Professor Spears wrote is marked by
clarity, economy, and felicity of expression
and by elegant and discerning interpretation,
the award recognizes the essay published
in each volume of SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900
that most nearly achieves these qualities and
that has given the editors the greatest pleasure to read.
Volume 48 Award Recipient:
Sarah Wall-Randell
For her Spring 2008 essay,
"Doctor Faustus and the Printer's Devil"
The endowment to support this award
has been generously provided by
the Hobby Family Foundation.
Previous Award Recipients:
Volume 47 Award Recipient- Deborah Needleman Armintor
for her Summer 2007 essay, "The Sexual Politics of Microscopy in Brobdingnag."
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Volume 46 Award Recipient- Catherine Thomas
for her Spring 2006 essay,"Chaste Bodies and Poisonous Desires in Milton's Mask."
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Volume 45 Award Recipient- Adam McKeown
for his Winter 2005 essay, "Looking at Britomart Looking at Pictures."
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Volume 44 Award Recipient- Peter Berek
for his Spring 2004 essay, "Cross-Dressing, Gender, and Absolutism in the Beaumont and Fletcher Plays."
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Volume 43 Award Recipient- Margaret Russett
for her Autumn 2003 essay, "Meter, Identity, Voice: Untranslating Christabel."
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Volume 42 Award Recipient- Jack Lynch
for his Summer 2002 essay, "Samuel Johnson's 'Love of Truth'' and Literary Fraud."
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Volume 41 Award Recipient- Susan L. Ferguson
for her Autumn 2001 essay, "Dickens's Public Readings and the Victorian Author."
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Volume 40 Award Recipient- Penny McCarthy
for her Winter 2000 essay,"'Milksop Muses' or Why Not Mary?"
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Volume 39 Award Recipient- Elisabeth G. Gitter
for her Autumn 1999 essay,"The Blind Daughter in Charles Dickens's Cricket on the Hearth."
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Volume 38 Award Recipient- Blair Hoxby
for his Winter 1998 essay,"Milton's Steps in Time."
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Volume 37 Award Recipient- Mark Womack
for his Winter 1997 essay,"On the Value of Lycidas."
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E-mail comments and questions to SEL at selweb@rice.edu. Last updated by Eun-Young Koh and Sarah Reese on 20 November 2009.
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