Past Award Recipients

2009

Dan Brant, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, “Racial Evolution and Colonial Gender: Louis Bertrand's ‘Latin- Mediterranean’ Solution”

Isabelle Havet, University of Delaware, “Fernand Cormon’s Caïn: Man between Primitive and Prophet”

2008

Anne Linton, Yale University, “Allegory and exoticism: Balzac’s allusion to Delacroix”

Lowry Martin, University of Califonria–Berkeley, “Extra-territorial Threats and Colonial Fantasy: The Black Lesbian in Argis's Gomorrhe”

2007

Atia Sattar, Pennsylvania State University, “The Return of the Possessed: The Scientific Discourse of Hypnotism in Guy de Maupassant’s ‘Le Horla,’”

Andrea Thomas, Columbia University, “Lautréamont in the Pléiade”

2006

Dominica Chang, U of Michigan “From printing clicher to Flaubertian cliché”

Arcana Albright, U of Pennsylvania, “Zola’s La Curée Viewed Through the Lens of Photography”

2005

Katia Viot-Southard, Washington University, “L’Ornière de Marya Chéliga: représentation théâtrale de la condition féminine à la fin du XIXe siècle”

Matthew Bailey (Washington University) : “Battlefields of Representation”

2004

Dorian Bell, University of Pennsylvania, “Unprofitable Returns: Colonialism, Social Critique and the Specter of the Past in Balzac’s La Cousine Berte”

2003

Dan Edelson, University of Pennsylvania, “Balzac and the Invention of Mythical Modernism”

2002

Jeremy Worth, University of Western Ontario, "Les Damnés de l'art dans L'Œuvre: la séduction et la canalisation du désir"