Virginia Butler wins Bruce Harkness Young Scholar Award
May 14, 2020
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Presented by the Joseph Conrad Society of America, for her article, "Race, Gender, and Closure in *Lord Jim*."
The Joseph Conrad Society of America was established in 1975 to foster and promote the study of Joseph Conrad. It has long helped support a community of readers interested in the life and work of Joseph Conrad, and continues today to seek out the full diversity of critical and creative approaches to reading Conrad.
The Joseph Conrad Society of America presents an annual Bruce Harkness Young Conrad Scholar Award, named in honor of Bruce Harkness, Conrad scholar and former president of the society. The award is presented to an outstanding graduate student who is writing a dissertation on Conrad or to a recent Ph.D. who has been teaching for no more than five years and is doing research on Conrad. The award consists of a $100 honorarium, one year's membership in the Joseph Conrad Society of America, and a complimentary invitation to the annual Conrad Society dinner held during the Modern Language Association convention.