Prize-winning RBS-UVA Fellowship Projects
A $500 prize is awarded to the most distinguished project from each RBS-UVA Fellowship cohort. As of 2014, this award is known as the Dawn and Stuart Houston Prize, thanks to the generous contributions of Dawn and Stuart Houston to the RBS-UVA Fellowship program. The winning projects from each fellowship cohort are:
2018–19
- Neal Curtis – Ph.D. student, Department of English
Forgery and the Rise of Bibliographical Techniques of Detection - Micaela Kowalski – Ph.D. student, Department of History (Honorable Mention)
Images of Religious and Racial Difference in Early Modern Travel Narratives - Loreto Romero Martínez-Eiroa – Ph.D. student, Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese (Honorable Mention)
The Gaze of Celestina: Celestina’s Anamorphosis and the Sixteenth-Century Reader
2017–18
- Samuel Lemley – Ph.D. student, Department of English
Shoring Fragments, ca. 1605 (Dissertation section) - Julianne McCobin – Ph.D. student, Department of History (Honorable Mention)
Circulating Anxiety: Nathanael West’s Miss Lonelyhearts and David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest as Critiques of American Print Culture
2016–17
- Samantha Wallace – Ph.D. student, Department of English
Artifact, Assemblage, and the Composite Work - Chloe Wells – Ph.D. student, McIntire Department of Art (Honorable Mention)
The Duc de Luynes’s Modern Vision of Antiquity: Sculpture, Polychromy, and Photography in Nineteenth-Century France
2015–16
- Peter Miller – Ph.D. student, Department of English
Making American Literature: Poetry With Footnotes - Elizabeth Doe – Ph.D. student, McIntire Department of Art (Honorable Mention)
The Flâuneuse and the Urban Night: Reinscribing the Nocturnes of Martin Lewis - Christian Howard – Ph.D. student, Department of English (Honorable Mention)
Recreating Faulkner’s Fictional World: The Publication of the Chronology and Genealogy in Absalom, Absalom!
2014–15
- Christina Kilby – Ph.D. student, Department of Religious Studies
The Past Lives of Tibetan Letters: Tracing the Transformation from Manuscript to Woodblock Print in Several Eighteenth-Century Tibetan Letter Collections - Ethan Reed – Ph.D. student, Department of English (Honorable Mention)
Reading Books by Their Covers: Dos Passos’s U.S.A., Design Features, and Histories of Literary Reception
2013–14
- Claire Eager – Doctoral Candidate, Department of English
“So many strange things hapned me to see”: Myths and Mysteries in the Illustrations of A Theatre for Worldlings (Dissertation section) - Stephanie Kingsley – M.A. Candidate, Department of English (Honorable Mention)
Mercedes of Castile: a Digital Edition
2012–13
- Laura All – Doctoral Candidate, Department of English
The ********* 17–; or, the Expletive Eighteenth-Century (ASECS Presentation)
The Expletive Eighteenth Century: A Prospectus (Dissertation Prospectus)
2011–12
- Emma Whittington – CLAS 2012, Comparative Literature
Borges and Ficciones: The Transmutation of a Text - Christine Schott – Doctoral Candidate, Department of English (Honorable Mention)
A Digital Presentation of the Marginalia of the B-Text of The Vision of Piers Plowman