Martha f. Bowden TEACHING PRIZE

A $300 first prize and a $200 second prize will be awarded to the best submissions on the subject of Teaching the Eighteenth Century. The prize seeks innovative pedagogies for teaching the time period to students at the undergraduate or graduate level. Submissions may include syllabi, specific assignment prompts, e-posters, or short pedagogical essays. For submissions that consist of primary course materials (e.g. syllabi, assignment prompts, etc.), please include a brief explanation (approximately 300 words) of the objectives and methods of the represented pedagogy in these materials.

Please send submissions to Mary Crone-Romanovski at mromanovski@fgcu.edu by January 27, 2024. Applicants must be members of the Society when they submit the application to the committee. If you have not already paid your dues for the current 2023-24 year, you can pay them here.

2024 winner: Gabrielle Stecher, Indiana University-Bloomington, “Teaching the French Revolution in First Year Writing”

2nd place: Aparna Gollapudi, Colorado State University, “Teaching the Long 18th Century Lit Survey as Public Humanities”

2023 winner: Bryan Rindfleisch: Associate Professor of History at Marquette University: "HIST/EPP 4155: Native American History, 1491-Present"

2022: No submissions

2021 winners: 1st place: Misty Krueger

2nd place: 2nd place: J. Ereck Jarvis, Assistant Professor of English at Northwestern University of Louisiana: "Intercourse: Tangible Research regarding Sex, Society, and the 18c. English Novel"

2020: No submissions

2019 winner: 2019 winner: Emily Dowd-Arrow, Professor of English, Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College Bainbridge, who organized the panel “Breaking Down Walls, Building Bridges: Discovering the Eighteenth Century in 2018.” Panelists included: 

Erin Kirksey, "From Courtesan to Casting Couch: Unleashing Female Power in Eliza Haywood’s Fantomina".

Brian Moorehouse, “'Fake News'” and the New, Old Fights of Today: How Eighteenth-Century Periodicals Established 'Truth'".

Carlton Maloy, "Why We Need 'The Dutch Lady': Breaking Through Boundaries in Eliza Haywood's The Female Spectator"

Kathryn Patterson, "Are We Still 'Fair-Sexing It'?: How Bickerstaff and Mr. Spectator Set the Standard for Confining Female Voices in the Media"

2018: No submissions

2017 Winner: Mary Crone-Romanovski, Assistant Professor at Florida Gulf Coast University, who organized the panel "Cutural Encounters in Eighteenth-Century Castaway Tales." Panelists included: 

Elizabeth Feins, "Anti-Colonization in Gulliver's Travels"
Amanda Souchik, "Narrative Style in Castaway Tales: How The Female American Expands on Robinson Crusoe"
Jamie Kramer, "Transatlantic Hermitage: Creating Society through Solitude in The Female American"
Kelsey Abell, "The Malleable Missionary: Evangelism as an Alternative to Colonization in The Female American"

2016 Winner: Kirsten Saxon, Professor of English at Mills College, who organized the panel "Mind Over Matter: Gendered Bodies and Performative Texts." Panelists included:

Susana Fortu, "Pamela as Selfie: Female Textual Authority and Masculine Reinscription"
Margaret Miller, "'Your infatuation about that girl blinds you': (Miss)readings and Queer Narratology in Jane Austen's Emma"
Emma Wilson, "Pamela, or Welcome 2 My Mind: 18th-Century Epistolarity and Teen Girl Blogging Culture"
Savannah Stelzer, "Feints and Scribbles: Pamela as Creator of Self, Strategies, and Stories"

2015 Winner: Michael Rex, Associate Professor at Cumberland University. 

2014 Winner: Emily C. Friedman, Assistant Professor of English at Auburn University, who organized the panel "Revolutions in the Marketplace: Subverting Generic Expectations in Late Eighteenth-Century Culture."