The Rutledge Prize 2006

Each year the Southern Comparative Literature Association offers a prize of $100 for the most promising work presented at its annual conference by a graduate student. The essay is also considered for publication in The Comparatist.

You may submit a paper for consideration for this award by sending it either in hard copy or (preferably) as an email attachment to the SCLA vice president. The deadline for submissions is November 15, 2006 with the prizewinner to be announced in the 2007 issue of The Comparatist. Send to:

Dr. Marcel Cornis-Pope

Professor of English and Chair

Department of English

Virginia Commonwealth University

Richmond, VA 23284-2005

mcornis@mail1.vcu.edu

Since conference papers are often shortened from longer projects, students are encouraged to submit an essay-length version of their work that would be suitable for journal publication (no longer than 7,500 words). If publishable, prize essays normally appear in the next issue after the official announcement (i.e., a year and a half after the conference presentation), thus allowing ample time for feedback and advice from the editor.

PREVIOUS RUTLEDGE PRIZES:
1999 (Knoxville)	Zahi Zalloua (Princeton), "Roquentin and the Metaphysics    of Presence: Philosophy, Literature, Textual Play."
2000 (Phoenix)	Sean Cotter (Michigan), "The Sacramental Dada of T. S.    Eliot."
2001 (Chapel Hill)	Letitia Guran (Georgia), "The Aesthetic Dimension of    American-Romanian Comparative Literary Studies."
2002 (Tuscaloosa)	Jason Brooks (Penn State), "'Directing' the Reader:    Khodasevich's 'Sorrento Photographs,' and Montage."
2003 (Austin)	Erin Williams Hyman (UCLA), "Theatrical Terror:    Attentats and Symbolist Spectacle"