2024
Schehr Award:
Célia Abele (Boston College), “Successive Sediments: Producing Life in Zola’s Ventre de Paris”
Schor Award:
Pierre Forfert (Yale University), “Balzac’s Poplar Trees: The Economy of Silviculture in Eugénie Grandet”
2023
Schehr Award:
Madison Mainwaring (University of Notre Dame), “Madame Dominique’s Box: Dance History and the Feminist Elegy”
Schor Award:
Hannah Grunow (Princeton University), “Art in Passage Toward the Internal: Flaubert, the Artist, & Philosophical Aesthetics”
2022
Schehr Award:
Hannah Frydman (University of Washington), “‘Confidences épistolaires de la Vénus publique’: Le Figaro’s Petite Correspondance and the Business and Pleasure of Sharing Private Messages in Public”
Schor Award:
Isabel Maloney (Cambridge University), “The Trial of Lucien Descaves (1890): Naturalism, Sexual Politics and Patriotism in the Third Republic”
2021
Schehr Award:
Kathleen Pierce (Smith College), “A Photography of Restraint: Scientific Knowledge, Animal Subjectivity, and Medical Authority in the Annales de l’Institut Pasteur”
Schor Award:
Richard Riddick (Yale University), “Powers of Three: Scaling Up the Crowd in Zola’s Vérité”
2019
Schehr Award:
Rebecca Sugden (Cambridge University), “Re-Enchanting Conspiracy/Disenchanting Idealism: Sand after Rancière”
Schor Award:
Victoria Baena (Yale University), “La Normandie Merveilleuse: Between Novel Theory and Popular Aesthetics”
2018
Schehr Award:
Edmund Birch (Cambridge University), “Reading the News: Maupassant and Freud”
Schor Award:
Helen Craske (Oxford University), “Selling Scandal: Infamy and Complicity in Rachilde and Lorrain”
Madison Mainwaring (Yale University), “Ballet and Celebrity at the Paris Opera”
2017
Schehr Award:
Sara Phenix (Brigham Young University), “In Freak Fashion: Maupassant, the Corset, and the Art of the Short Story”
Anne Linton (San Francisco State University), “Deviant Bodies: Sex Change, Technology, and Popular Fiction in Nineteenth-Century France”
Schor Award:
Maureen DeNino (Princeton University), “‘Un tableau atrocement pittoresque’: Pierre Loti’s colonial war correspondence”
2016
Schehr Award:
Claire White (King’s College London), “George Sand, piocheuse manquée”
Schor Award:
Kasia Stempniak (Duke University), “‘L’île de la toilette‘: Fashion and Space in Flaubert’s Le Château des cœurs and L’Education sentimentale”
Rebecca Sugden (University of Cambridge), “Terre(ur): Reading the Landscape of Conspiracy in Balzac’s Une Ténébreuse affaire”
2015
Schehr Award:
Jessica Tanner (University of North Carolina Chapel-Hill), “Branding Vice: The Ecology of Vice in Zola”
Jennifer Gipson (University of Wisconsin-Madison), “The Newspaper vs. the Storyteller: Phantasms of Orality and the Quarrel of the roman-feuilleton”
Schor Award:
Neal Allar (Cornell University), “Mallarmé and the Caribbean Mosaic”
2014
Schehr Award:
Robert St. Clair, Dartmouth College, “Fuites esthétiques: Rimbaud’s sensational (eco)poetics”
Schor Award:
Caroline Grubbs, University of Pennsylvania, “Lignes de fuite ? : Spatial Anxieties and the Parisian Métro in Fin-de-siècle Urban Culture”
2013
Schehr Award:
Nicolas Valazza, Indiana University, “Seuils livresques et horizons poétiques: Verlaine, Mallarmé et la crise du livre”
Schor Award:
Cory Browning, Cornell University, “La démocratie est dans cette littérature: Les Misérables and the Staging of Democracy”
2012
Schehr Award:
Dorian Bell, University of California Santa Cruz, “Zola, Nietzsche, Marx: Anti-Anti-Semitism and the Politics of Scale”
Schor Award:
Philippa Lewis, University of Cambridge, “Stomaching the Salon: ‘Boulangerie du Louvre’ and Baudelaire’s Salon de 1846”
Adam Rosenthal, Emory University, “Donner le souvenir: The Gift of Memory in Baudelaire’s ‘Morale du joujou'”
2011
Schor Award:
Jessica Tanner, Harvard University, “An Unhomely Home: Naturalist Nostalgia and the Maison de Tolérance”
2010
Schor Award:
Anne Linton, Yale University, “Literary Histories and Medical Fictions: Methods of Narrating Doubtful Sex in Nineteenth-Century France”
Robert St.-Clair, University of Minnesota, “The Infantile Community: Parody and Poetry as Theory and Method of (Writing) the Community in Rimbaud’s ‘Zutismes’”
2009
Schor Award:
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
Schor Award:
Anne Linton, Yale University, “Allegory and exoticism: Balzac’s allusion to Delacroix”
Lowry Martin, University of California–Berkeley, “Extra-territorial Threats and Colonial Fantasy: The Black Lesbian in Argis’s Gomorrhe”
2007
Schor Award:
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
Schor Award:
Dominica Chang, U of Michigan, “From printing cliché to Flaubertian cliché”
Arcana Albright, U of Pennsylvania, “Zola’s La Curée Viewed Through the Lens of Photography”
2005
Schor Award:
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
Schor Award:
Dorian Bell, University of Pennsylvania, “Unprofitable Returns: Colonialism, Social Critique and the Specter of the Past in Balzac’s La Cousine Bette”
2003
Schor Award:
Dan Edelson, University of Pennsylvania, “Balzac and the Invention of Mythical Modernism”
2002
Schor Award:
Jeremy Worth, University of Western Ontario, “Les Damnés de l’art dans L’Œuvre: la séduction et la canalisation du désir”
