Beatrice White Prize
The Beatrice White Award is awarded to the best scholarly article noticed in The Years Work in English Studies (YWES) in the fields of English Literature before 1590. The judging process is carried out by the YWES editors after input and recommendation of YWES Contributors in relevant fields, during a particular given year.
Professor Beatrice White, for whom the prize is named, was a well-loved and respected academic, interested particularly in mediaeval and renaissance English literature. She was also a creative teacher and a very active and long-standing member of the English Association.
Prizes awarded:
2020 Award
This year's recipient of the 2020 Beatrice White Prize has been awarded to Professor Leonard Neidorf. The Editors wish to recognise Leonard's important contributions to the field, inlcuding his article 'Wealhtheow and Her Name: Etymology, Characterization and Textual Criticism' (Neophilologus, 102, no 1 (January 2018): 75-89).
Leonard Neidorf is Professor of English at Nanjing University, where he teaches courses on medieval literature and the history of the English language. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University and his B.A. from New York University. He is the author of The Transmission of Beowulf: Language, Culture, and Scribal Behavior (Cornell University Press, 2017) and the editor of The Dating of Beowulf: A Reassessment (Boydell & Brewer, 2014), which was named an Outstanding Academic Title by CHOICE. With Rafael J. Pascual and Tom Shippey, Neidorf co-edited Old English Philology: Studies in Honour of R.D. Fulk (Boydell & Brewer, 2016). His articles have appeared in such journals as ELH, English Studies, Tolkien Studies, Modern Philology, Anglo-Saxon England, and Journal of Germanic Linguistics.
2019 Award
The 2019 prize has been awarded to Kellie Robertson for Nature Speaks: Medieval Literature and Aristotelian Philosophy (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017).
2018 Award
The 2018 prize has been awarded to Eric Weiskott for English Alliterative Verse: Poetic Tradition and Literary History (Cambridge University Press, 2016).
2017 Award
The 2017 prize has been awarded to Annie Sutherland for English Psalms in the Middle Ages 1300-1450 (Oxford University Press, 2015).
[Anne Baden-Daintre, The Year's Work in English Studies, V.96 (2017) p. 26]
2016 Award
The 2016 prize has been awarded to Lawrence Warner for The Myth of Piers Plowman (Cambridge University Press, 2014).
[William Rogers The Year's Work in English Studies, V. 95 (2016) Chapter III]
2015 Award
The 2015 award was awarded to Joanna Bellis for her essay ‘Rymes sette for a remembraunce: memorialisation and mimetic language in the war poetry of the late Middle Ages’, Review of English Studies, 64:264 (2013), 183-207.
[Elizabeth Elliott, The Year's Work in English Studies, V.94 (2015) p. 156]
2014 Award
The 2014 award was awarded to Kathleen Tonry for her essay entitled 'Reading History in Caxton's Polychronicon' which was originally published in volume 111 of the Journal of English and Germanic Philology.
[Holly Moyer, The Year's Work in English Studies, V. 93 (2014)]
2013 Award
The 2013 prize was awarded to Roy M. Liuzza, the editor of Anglo-Saxon Prognostics: An Edition and Translation of Texts from London, British Library, MS Cotton Tiberius A.iii. Anglo-Saxon Texts (Boydell and Brewer).
[The Editors, The Year's Work in English Studies, V.92 (2013)]
2012 Award
The 2012 prize was awarded to Anthony Bale for Feeling Persecuted: Christians, Jews, and Images of Violence in the Middle Ages (Reaktion).
2011 Award
The 2011 Prize was awarded to Penny Granger for The N-Town Play: Drama and Liturgy in Medieval East Anglia (Boydell and Brewer).
2010 Award
Douglas Gray, Later Medieval English Literature (Oxford University Press)