The Sixteenth Century Society and Conference Literature Prizes

About This Award

The SCSC Literature Prize is given for the best literature paper published in the Sixteenth Century Journal. The prize-winning article is selected by a committee of three conference members appointed by the president who shall designate one of the members as chair.

Criteria for selection include:

1) quality and originality of research
2) methodological skill and/or innovation
3) development of fresh and stimulating interpretations or insights
4) literary quality

Nominations for the prizes may be made by anyone and shall be sent to the Executive Director of the SCSC or the chair of the prize committee. The authors should sent three copies of their paper to the Executive Director of the SCSC by April. Announcement of the winning paper will be made by the chair of the committee at the annual business meeting of the conference and the winner will receive a $500.00 prize. Announcement of the winner will appear in The Sixteenth Century Journal.

Previous Winners

• 2009 -
  
  Jaime Goodrich, “Thomas More and Margaret More Roper: A Case for Rethinking Women’s Participation in the Early Modern Public Sphere” Sixteenth Century Journal XXXIX /4 (2008)
• 2008 -
  
  Sharon T. Strocchia “Savonarolan Witnesses: The Nuns of San Jacopo and the Piagnone Movement in Sixteenth-Century Florence”. Sixteenth Century Journal 38/2 (2007): 393-418.
  
• 2007 - Two prizes were awarded:

  Paper: Jeff Persels, “Macer's 1555 Account of the Japanese: A Curious Case of Ethnographic Cleansing” (presented at the 2006 SCSC)

  Article: Jane Donawerth, “Women's Reading Practices in Seventeenth-Century England: Margaret Fell's Women's Speaking Justified”, Sixteenth Century Journal XXXVII/4 (2006)

• 2006 -
• 2005 - David Whitford, “Mistaking the Tree for the Forest:  Why Kenotic Theory in Milton is Anachronistic”
• 2004 -
• 2003 - JoAnn DellaNeva, University of Notre Dame, for her paper “Du Bellay and ‘quelques modernes Italiens’: Variations in a Minor Key”
• 2002 - Susan M. Felch,“Prayerbooks in their pockets: Poetic Writing, Prayerful Reading” (San Antonio, October 2002)