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Congratulations to the winners of Awards from the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women for work published in 2007! The award-winning works are listed below.

Book | Essay | Collaborative Project | Translation | Graduate Student Essay |

The Awards were announced at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women on October 27, 2007.

EMW currently seeks nominations for awards. Any work that focuses on women and gender in the early modern period (1450-1750) is eligible.

To nominate a work published in 2007 for the 2008 awards, please submit 3 copies of the work by 1 May 2008 to the chair of the EMW Awards Committee, Linda Austern. Direct inquiries via email to: l-austern(at)northwestern.edu.

Book Award:

Award Winner (2 awards)

• Will Fisher. Materializing Gender in Early Modern English Literature and Culture. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
• Katherine McIver. Women, Art, and Architecture in Northern Italy, 1520-1580. Aldershot, England; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2006.

• Katherine Park. Secrets of Women: Gender, Generation and the Origins of Human Dissection. Zone Books, 2006

Essay or Article Award:

• Jane Donawerth. "Women's Reading Practices in Seventeenth-Century England: Margaret Fell's Women's Speaking Justified." Sixteenth Century Journal 37.4 (2006): 985-1006.

• Anne M. Myers. "Construction Sites: The Architecture of Anne Clifford's Diaries." ELH 73.3 (2006): 581-600.

Collaborative Project

Award winner:

• Naomi Miller and Naomi Yavneh, editors. Sibling Relations and Gender in the Early Modern World: Sisters, Brothers and Others. Alsdershot: Ashgate Press, 2006.

• Louise Labé. Complete Poetry and Prose: A Bilingual Edition. Edited and translated by Deborah Lesko Baker and Annie Finch. The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006.

Translation:

Award Winner

• Madeleine and Catherine des Roches. From Mother and Daughter: Poems, Dialogues, and Letters of Les Dames des Roches. Edited and translated by Anne R. Larsen. The Other Voice In Early Modern Europe. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2006.

• Margarita Sarrocchi. Scanderbeide. Edited and translated by Rinaldina Russell. The Other Voice In Early Modern Europe. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006.

Graduate Student Conference Presentation Award:

• Elissa Auerbach."Taking Mary's Pulse: Cartesianism and Modernity in Rembrandt's The Death of the Virgin."

Updated February 14, 2008 . KLN