RES Essay Prize
RES Essay Prize Winners (in chronological order, latest first)
- 2007 Stephen Bernard, Brasenose College, Oxford, UK.
'After Defoe, Before the Dunciad: Giles Jacob and a Vindication of the Press'. (Still to be published.) - 2006: Dr Fred Schurink, Newcastle University, UK
"Like a Hand in the Margine of a Booke": William Blount's Marginalia
and the Politics of Sidney's Arcadia
- 2005: Patrick Hayes, St John's College, Oxford, UK An Author I have not Read’: Coetzee's Foe, Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, and the Problem of the Novel
- 2004: Paddy Bullard, St Catherine's College, Oxford, UK The Meaning of the 'Sublime and Beautiful': Shaftesburian Contexts and Rhetorical Issues in Edmund Burke's Philosophical Enquiry
- 2003: Tom Lockwood, University of Leeds, UK. The Sheridans at Work: A Recovered Drury Lane Revisal of 1808
- 2002: Vanessa Ryan, Yale University, USA. The Unreliable Editor: Carlyle's Sartor Resartus and the Art of Biography.
- 2001: Chris Jones, St Andrew's University, UK. W. H. Auden and 'The "Barbaric" Poetry of the North': Unchaining one's Daimon.
- 2000: Matthew Bevis, University of Sheffield, UK. Temporizing Dickens.
- 1999: James Kelly, Worcester College, Oxford, UK. The Worcester Affair (No .Pdf available).
The Review of English Studies is pleased to continue the sponsorship of the RES Essay Prize, which was launched in 1999. The aim of the RES Essay Prize is to encourage scholarship amongst postgraduate research students in Britain and abroad. The essay can be on any topic of English literature or the English language from medieval times to the twentieth century.
The Prize
- Publication of the winning essay in the 2009 volume of The Review of English Studies
- A cash prize of £250
- £250 worth of OUP books
- A free year's subscription to The Review of English Studies
The Competition Rules
The competition is open to anyone currently registered for a higher research degree, or who completed one no earlier than October 2005. The winner's student status verification will be requested from their academic supervisor or head of department. The entry must not be under consideration for publication elsewhere.
Entry Details
Full details are available here
Promote the prize
To advertise the RES prize amongst interested students and peers, we have provided a colour poster, in PDF format, which can be downloaded here.