Category: Essay Prize
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2026 Winner of the BSLS/JLS Early Career Essay Prize
Many congratulations to Daniel Bowman, for his winning essay “Coach Dog to Automobile Dog: Canines in Literature and Car Culture.” The essay explores the nonhuman animals at the heart of the transition from horse-drawn carriage to automobile, for whom the arrival of the motorcar marked displacement rather than progress. Scholars of animal studies and the…
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BSLS/JLS Essay Prize: Winner Announced
The BSLS and the JLS are very pleased to announce that the winner of this year’s essay prize is Sina Schuhmaier for her essay “Subject Formation in the Early Black Atlantic: Disease Narratives of the Middle Passage”. The panel particularly commends the essay’s balance of scientific and medical history with wider questions about temporality, history,…
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Call for entries: 2026 BSLS/JLS Essay Prize
The JLS and the British Society for Literature and Science are pleased to announce the opening of the 2026 competition for the best new essay by an early career scholar or postgraduate student on a topic within the field of literature and science. Essays should be currently unpublished and not under consideration by another journal. Essays…
