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Beth Fowkes Tobin, the Department of English at Arizona State University, for her mongraph, Colonizing Nature: The Tropics in British Arts and Letters, 1760-1820, published in 2005 by the University of Pennsylvania Press.
The presentation of the prize and Professor Tobin’s public lecture, "The Duchess's Shells: Accumulation, Exchange, and Regimes of Value in Natural History Collecting," took place on 7 February, 2007. The outside reader on the Glasscock Book Prize committee, Stacy Wolf, professor of theatre at the University of Texas, made a presentation entitled "'We're Not in Kansas Anymore': The Broadway Musical, Women, and Wicked."
Anthony Harkins, Assistant Professor of History, Western Kentucky University, for his book "Hillbilly: A Cultural History of an American Icon," (Oxford University Press, 2004). He presented a paper entitled, ""'Flyover Country' and the Politics of Imagining the 'Middle of Nowhere.'"
Tony Harkins The outside reader on the Glasscock Book Prize committee, William Cohen, professor of English at the University of Maryland, made a presentation entitled "Inside Hopkins."
Jay Clayton, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor and Chair of the Department of English at Vanderbilt University for his book "Charles Dickens in Cyberspace: The Afterlife of the Nineteenth Century in Postmodern Culture," (Oxford University Press, 2003). He presented a paper entitled, "Crimes of the Genome: Literature and the Gene for Violence."
Jay Clayton The outside reader on the Glasscock Book Prize committee, Debbie Nelson, professor at the University of Chicago, made a presentation entitled "Cold Comfort: Simone Weil in Postwar America."
Debbie Lee, Assistant Professor of English at Washington State University, for her book Slavery and the Romantic Imagination (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002). She presented a public lecture entitled, "Imperialism and Impostors: The Notorious Case of Princess Caraboo." The outside reader on the Glasscock Book Prize committee, Brian Cowan, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Yale University, made a presentation titled "An Open Elite: Virtuosity and Peculiarities of English Connoisseurship."
Keith Wailoo, of the Department of History and the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research at Rutgers University, for his book Dying in the City of the Blues: Sickle Cell Anemia and the Politics of Race and Health (The University of North Carolina Press, 2001). He presented a public lecture entitled, "From White Plague to Black Death: The Strange Career of Race & Cancer in 20th Century America." The outside reader on the Glasscock Book Prize committee, Audrey Jaffe, Center for Cultural Studies, UC-Santa Cruz, made a presentation titled "Bodies on the Line: Figures of Nineteenth-Century Studies."
Daniel Albright, Richard L. Turner Professor in the Humanities, University of Rochester, for his book Untwisting the Serpent: Modernism in Music, Literature, and Other Arts (The University of Chicago Press, 2000). He presented a public lecture entitled "Noble Savages in Armani Suits: Poetry, Painting, and Music in Late Twentieth-Century America." The outside reader on the Glasscock Book Prize committee, Samuel Gladden, Assistant Professor of English at the University of Northern Iowa, also made a presentation titled "Lacunae and Textual Summation: Absences, Gaps, and Other Sexy Spaces in the British Nineteenth Century."
Dana D. Nelson, Professor of English and Social Theory at the University of Kentucky, for her book, National Manhood: Capitalist Citizenship and the Imagined Fraternity of White Men (Duke University Press, 1998). She accepted the award and delivered a public lecture entitled "Representative/Democracy: Presidential Management and Civic Identity." |
