[LCC] Winkler Prize CFP

[Kirk Ormand]

THE JOHN J. WINKLER MEMORIAL PRIZE

The John J. Winkler Memorial Trust invites all undergraduate and  
graduate students in North America (plus those currently unenrolled  
who have not as yet received a doctorate and who have never held a  
regular academic appointment) to enter the sixteenth competition for  
the John J. Winkler memorial prize. This year the Prize will be a  
cash award of $1500, which may be split if more than one winner is  
chosen.

The Prize is intended to honor the memory of John J. ("Jack")  
Winkler, a classical scholar, teacher, and political activist for  
radical causes both within and outside the academy, who died of AIDS  
in 1990 at the age of 46. Jack believed that the profession as a  
whole does not encourage young scholars to explore neglected or  
disreputable topics, or to apply unconventional or innovative methods  
to their scholarship. He wished to be remembered by means of an  
annual Prize that would support such efforts. In accordance with his  
wishes, the John J. Winkler Memorial trust awards a cash prize each  
year to the author of the best undergraduate or graduate essay in any  
risky or marginal field of classical studies. Topics include (but are  
not limited to) those that Jack himself explored: the ancient novel,  
the sex/gender systems of antiquity, the social meanings of Greek  
drama, and ancient Mediterranean culture and society. Approaches  
include (but are not limited to) those that Jack's own work  
exemplified: feminism, anthropology, narratology, semiotics, cultural  
studies, ethnic studies, and lesbian/gay studies.

The 2010 Winkler Prize Competition

The winner of the 2010 Prize will be selected from among the  
contestants by a jury of four, as yet to be determined.

The deadline for submissions is March 1, 2010. Essays should not  
exceed the length of 30 pages, including notes but excluding  
bibliography and illustrations or figures. Text should be double- 
spaced; notes may be single-spaced. Electronic submission is  
required. Essays should be sent in .pdf format. Please include an  
email with your essay in which you provide the following information:  
your college/university, your department or program of study, whether  
you are a graduate or undergraduate, your email and regular mail  
addresses, a phone number where you can be reached in May of 2010,  
and the title of your work.

The Prize is intended to encourage new work rather than to recognize  
scholarship that has already proven itself in more traditional  
venues. Essays submitted for the prize should not, therefore, be  
previously published or accepted for publication. Exceptions to this  
rule may be made in the case of the publication of conference  
proceedings, at the discretion of the prize administrator.  The Trust  
reserves the right not to confer the Prize in any year in which the  
essays submitted to the competition are judged insufficiently  
prizeworthy.

Contestants may send their essays and address any inquiries to: Kirk  
Ormand, Dept. of Classics, Oberlin College; kirk.ormand at oberlin.edu.

The John J. Winkler memorial Trust was established as an independent,  
charitable foundation on June 1, 1990. Its purpose is to honor Jack  
Winkler's memory and to promote both his scholarly and his political  
ideals. Inquiries about the Prize, tax-deductible gifts to the Trust,  
and general correspondence may be addressed to: Kirk Ormand, John. J.  
Winkler Memorial Trust, Dept. of Classics, Oberlin College, Oberlin,  
OH 44074.

Previous Winkler Prize Winners:

1991    Kirk Ormand    The Use and Abuse of Ariadne, 55BCE-1984CE
1992    Denise McCoskey    Is there a 'Thesmophoria' in This Text?  
Women's Spheres in Aristophanes' Ecclesiazousae and Thesmophoriazousae
1993    John Ma    Black Hunter Variations
1994    Shane Butler    (Un)Masking 'The Greek Miracle':  
Performativity in Fifth and Fourth Century Athens
1995    Sara Lindheim    Setting Her Straight: Ovid Re-Presents Sappho
1995    Christopher Spelman    Marriage and Ideology in Catullus
                                                         (Honorable  
Mention)
1996    Mark Buchan    Penelope as Parthenos
1997    Tamara Chin    Mapping the Scythians: Anti-nomad techniques  
in Herodotus and Niebuhr
2002    Tamara Chin    Compulsory Heterotextuality:  Sappho (31)  
meets Shijing [Book of Songs] (1)
2003    Mary Frances Brown    Medusa's Eyes:  Gender, Subjectivity,  
and Ekphrasis in Ovid's Metamorphoses
2003    Jennifer Benedict    The Matrix of Identity:  Gender and  
Representation in the Works of Lucian
2004    Brooke Holmes    Catachreses: Epic Pain and the Wound of  
Agamemnon
2004    Lyra Monteiro    Colonial Origins: New Approaches to History,  
Archaeology, and Ethnicity at Metapontum
2005    Marianne Hopman    From Devouring Monster to Femme Fatale:  
Scylla in the Greek and Roman Imagination
2005    Dana Longton    'Beastly Obscenity' and the Serious Irrumator
2006    James Uden    A Virgin Martyr and a Phallic Prayer:  New  
Connections in the Elegies of Maximianus
2006    Taylor Coughlan    The Voice Which Is Not One: Narrative,  
Intertext, and Gender in Metamorphoses 4.274-415
2007    Alex Dressler    The Sophist and the Swarm:  Platonism and  
Feminism in Achilles Tatius
2007    Michael Pelch    The Dangers of Drag in Aristophanes’  
Thesmophoriazousae
2008    Danielle Meinrath    A Narrative of Enslavement?  Re-reading  
Photis in Apuleius' Metamorphoses
2008    Alison Fields    Lucian’s Megilla/us: Rethinking Gender,  
Agency, and Same-Sex Relationships
2009    Stephen Kidd    Forging The 300: Muscles/Muscle Armor in  
Ancient Greece/Today
2009    Geoff Benson     Archimedes’ Cattle of the Sun and the Limits  
of Euhemerism
                                                         (Honorable  
Mention)