Graduate Paper Prize

The annual NAVSA Graduate Award recognizes the best paper submitted by a graduate student for the annual NAVSA conference. Graduate students whose proposals have been accepted for the conference may submit their papers to the Conference Committee by Thursday, July 23 (receipt deadline) for the competition.

Because the contest honors the paper as it was given at the conference, please keep your essays to under 12 pages, inclusive of notes and works cited. (Handouts and slides or other images may be included as an appendix, if these were given at the conference.)

Submit three hard copies of your essay along with a cover sheet containing the following information

• your name
• affiliation (and rank, if applicable)
• the title of the paper
• snail mail and email address
• phone
• the name and address of your dissertation director and/or the professor who assisted with this paper

to the following address:

Melissa V. Gregory 
Department of English 
Mail Stop 126 
University of Toledo 
Toledo, Ohio 43606

Please contact melissa.gregory@utoledo.edu if you have any further questions.

 

The winning paper will be selected according to the same criteria as the Gray Prize: 1) Potential significance for Victorian studies; 2) Quality and depth of scholarly research and interpretation; 3) Clarity and effectiveness of presentation. The judges will choose one essay for the award and may also choose two honorary runners-up. A decision will be made by the time of the Winter newsletter. The Award winner will receive $250 and a year's free NAVSA membership (including a subcription to Victorian Studies). If the judges are deadlocked, the final decision will be made by the NAVSA Executive Committee.

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