It is a pleasure to announce the Shortlist and Winner of the 2023 AUHE Prize for Literary Scholarship:
(from the Judges’ Report)
Judging Panel: Prof. Emerita Lyn McCredden (chair), Prof. Denise Varney, and Dr Lorraine Sim.
There were 13 submissions for the 2023 AUHE Prize for Literary Scholarship, in what
the judges saw as a robust field. Within the wide disciplinary category of “English” represented in the submissions there was an impressive range of methodological and disciplinary approaches: close textual analysis, archival work, cultural studies, historical and literary historical contextual work, theological studies, genre and period studies, gender studies, biography, military studies, single author studies, drama studies. The three shortlisted works are fine examples of the disciplinary diversity of
contemporary literary scholarship.
Shortlisted for the 2023 AUHE Prize for Literary Scholarship are:
Melinda Cooper
Middlebrow Modernism: Eleanor Dark’s Interwar Fiction, Sydney Studies in
Australian Literature, 2023.
Thomas H. Ford and Justin Clemens
Barron Field in New South Wales: The Poetics of Terra Nullius, Melbourne University Press, 2023.
Roberta Kwan
Shakespeare, the Reformation and the Interpreting Self, Edinburgh University Press,
2023.
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The winner of the 2023 Australian University Heads of English Prize for Literary
Scholarship is Melinda Cooper, Middlebrow Modernism: Eleanor Dark’s Interwar
Fiction, Sydney Studies in Australian Literature, 2023. Congratulations!
Please download and read the full Judges’ Report here.
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