Comparative Literature Studies announces that it will publish an annual prize-paper written by a graduate student. The competition is named in honor of A. Owen Aldridge, founder of CLS. The purpose of this competition is to encourage and recognize excellence in scholarship among graduate students and to reward the highest achievement by publication. This project is sponsored by CLS in cooperation with the American Comparative Literature Association (www.acla.org) and supported by the Department of Comparative Literature at Pennsylvania State University. The award carries a monetary prize as well.
Guidelines:
1. Any graduate student currently
enrolled in an M.A. or Ph.D. program in Comparative Literature in the U.S.
may submit one paper annually.
2. Papers may be on any Comparative topic. They should be scholarly articles--on literary research, theory, criticism, and focus on more than one national literature--not (for example) interviews, translations, or editions of texts.
3. Papers should be of normal length for journal submission. An approximate page length of 15-20 pages, typed, double-spaced, is suggested, though somewhat longer papers will also be considered. Submissions must be in final form: no preliminary versions or inquiries or proposals are to be sent. Papers should follow the CLS format for documentation (the "endnote" style of the Chicago Manual of Style), and be written in English.
4. Papers should be prepared for anonymous evaluation. A separate cover sheet should give the paper's title, author's name, author's academic address, and the statement "The student named above is presently enrolled in a program of study leading to a graduate degree in Comparative Literature," signed by the chair of the student's graduate department or program. The first page of the paper itself should include the title of the work, but not the author's name.
5. Papers must be submitted in 4 (four) copies (xerox copies will work well).
6. The winning paper must conform to CLS standards and will be copy-edited and subject to the same editorial recommendations as other CLS materials. The intention of CLS is to publish the winning paper within 12 months. A note will indicate that the paper is the winner of the Aldridge competition and that it has been selected by the ACLA and CLS.
DEADLINE FOR RECEIPT
OF SUBMISSIONS:
15 September (Please note the changed
date vis-à-vis prior years)
Send submissions
to:
Thomas Beebee, Editor-in-Chief
Comparative Literature Studies
311 N Burrowes Building
University Park, PA 16802
Past Winners
2006 Winner: "Reading With One Eye, Speaking With One Tongue--On the Problem of Address in World Literature" by Michael Allan, UC-Berkeley
2005 Winner
[Issue 43.1-2 (2006)]: "To the Letter:
The Material Text as Space of Ajudication in Pope's First Satire" by Katherine
Mannheimer, Yale University
2004 Winner
2003 Winner [Issue 41.2 (2004)]: "Parasitism and Pale Fire's Camouflage: The King-Bot, the Crown Jewels, and the Man in the Brown Macintosh" by James Ramey
2000 Winner [Issue 38.2 (2001)]: "Translating Ruskin: Marcel Proust's Orient of Devotion" by Daniel Simon
1999 Winner [Issue 37.3 (2000)]: "Nietzche: Utility, Aesthetics, History" by Robert Duran
1998 Winner [Issue 36.3 (1999)]: "Spectacular Desires: Orpheus and Pygmalion as Aesthetic Paradigms in Petrarch's Rime sparse" by Therese Migraine-George, University of Colorado
1997 Winner [Issue 35.1 (1998)]: "Allegorical Dismemberment and Rescue in Book III of The Faerie Queene" by Mary Frances Fahey
1996 Winner [Issue 33.4 (1996)]: "Benjamin and Zola Narrative, the Individual and Crowds in an Age of Mass Production" by Nicholas Rennie, Rutgers University
1995 Winner [Issue 33.1 (1996)]: "Writing China: Legitimacy and Representation 1606-1773" by David Porter, University of Michigan
1994 Winner [Issue 32.3 (1995)]: "Enlightenment's Other in Patrick Süskind’s Das Parfum: Adorno and the Ineffable Utopia of Modern Art” by Bradley Butterfield, University of Wisconsin at La-Crosse
1993 Winner [Issue 31.2 (1994)]: "The Leopardskin of Dao and the Icon of Truth: Natural Birth Versus Mimesis in Chinese and Western Literary Theories" by Liang Shi, Miami University
1992 Winner [Issue 29.3 (1992)]:
"Deconstruction and Taoism: Comparisons Reconsidered" By Hongchu Fu, Washington
and Lee University
In memoriamA man of many facets and talents, A. Owen Aldridge will be remembered by some as a pioneer of colonial American literary studies, by others for his explorations in East-West literary relations, and by still others as a former president of the American Comparative Literature Association. For those of us associated with this journal however, he will forever be remembered as the founder of Comparative Literature Studies.
Alfred Owen Aldridge
December 16, 1915 - January 29, 2005
Perhaps Owen's many interests were reflected in the different forms of his name appearing at the top of the CLS masthead from 1963 to 1986: Alfred Owen Aldridge; A. O. Aldridge; and A. O. Aldridge, as though he had packed three scholarly lives into the space of one--which may indeed be true enough. His name has continued at the top since the first issue of 1987 (26.1), but as editor emeritus. This journal, then, and the Aldridge Prize for the best comparative essay by a graduate student that is associated with it, the fruits of his own efforts and genius, memorialize Owen better than our own poor power to do so. Turn the page, then, to find Owen's name again in the rubric for this year's Aldridge Prize essay, and indeed in all the learned prose of this issue. It is perhaps the best memorial an academic could hope for--the living word.
*At the request of his surviving daughter, those wishing to remember
A. Owen Aldridge may send donations to be used towards the Aldridge Prize,
which pays an honorarium and travel expenses to the ACLA Convention for
prizewinners. Checks should be made payable to "Penn State University"
and sent to the CLS editorial address. (Comparative Literature Studies,
311 Burrowes Building, University Park, PA 16802)
Last updated: 12 July 2007 by Michelle Toumayants