THE PARTLOW PRIZE
The Robert B. Partlow, Jr. Prize
The prize is named in honor of Robert Partlow, the original Secretary-Treasurer and one of the founding members of The Dickens Society. Bob Partlow taught at Boston University, the University of New Hampshire and Southern Illinois University, where he chaired the English Department from 1957 until he retired in 1979. Bob was also responsible for founding Dickens Studies Annual, a hard-bound collection of scholarly essays, published by Southern Illinois University Press, which he edited from 1971 to 1978. Thereafter the journal moved in 1980 to New York City, where it has been published by AMS Press in cooperation with Queens College and The Graduate Center of The City University of New York and continues as Dickens Studies Annual: Essays on Victorian Fiction.
The award, either one stipend of $500 (or two of $300 if warranted), will be made annually to help defray costs of attending the Dickens symposium in order to deliver a paper on any aspect of Dickens’s life or work. Candidates should submit proposals via e-mail to the convenor of the symposium; papers should be readable in twenty minutes. Those eligible are students (graduate and undergraduate) and non-tenured faculty, but not individuals connected with the host institution. Registration fees will also be waived. Full details relating to the forthcoming Symposium can be found under Events.