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  The official publication of the North American Conference on British Studies (NACBS), the Journal of British Studies, has positioned itself as the critical resource for scholars of British culture from the Middle Ages through the present. Drawing on both established and emerging approaches, JBS presents scholarly articles and books reviews from renowned international authors who share their ideas on British society, politics, law, economics, and the arts. In 2005 (Vol. 44), the journal merged with the NACBS publication Albion, creating one journal for NACBS membership.
 
 


Canadian Undergraduate Essay Contest in British Studies

Each year the NACBS awards ten prizes of $100.00 each to the best essays in British Studies from undergraduates studying in Canadian universities. Essays may be from any department -- History, English, Philosophy, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, etc. -- as long as the focus of the essay is British Studies.

Essays must be accompanied by a nominating letter from the professor who taught the course for which the essay is nominated. Paper should be no longer than 25 pages. Please, no theses.

Send a copy of the essay and the letter of nomination to EACH of the following 3 members of the adjudication committee by MAY 15, 2009 (3 copies in total).

  • Dr. Amy Bell, Huron University College, 1349 Western Rd, London ON, N6G 1H3.
  • Dr. Tim Tim Stretton, Department of History, Saint Mary's University
    Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 3C3.
  • Dr. Jennifer Gustar (Chair), Critical Studies, University of British Columbia Okanagan, 3333 University Way, Kelowna, BC. V1Y 1V7.


Contact: jennifer.gustar@ubc.ca

 

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RECENT AWARD WINNERS

2008/09 Canadian Undergraduate Essay Contest Winners

Andrew Coates. Angelic Hierarchs: Raphael, Michael and Changing Political Paradigms in Heaven (Engl)

Adrianna Eyking, The Symptoms of Sweet Agony: The Hysteria of Female Sexual Experience in John Cleland’s Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure. (ENGL)

Matthew Gayford. Medieval and Modern: The New Monarch and Political Reform in 15th c England (HIST)

Leigh Harrison. Factory Music: How the Industrial Geography and Working Class Environment of Post-war Birmingham Fostered the Birth of Heavy Metal (HIST)

Alexander Myhre. The Extent of the Norwegian Impact on the North Atlantic World: An Evaluatio of Emergin Cultural Identities in Scotland’s Northern and Western isles in the High Middle Ages (HIST)

Devani Singh. Misreadings of Slander and Silence:
(Un)Communicative Images and Speech in Lucrece (ENGL)

Liam Walke. The Building Blocks of Disease: Language and the cultural and social construction of plague in early modern England (HIST)

Meaghan Walker, Fashioning Gender: Sexuality, Identity and Clothing in the 18th c (HIST)

Hilary Wight. Bomb Disposal in Britain During the Second World War: A History of Unexploded Bombs and the Image of the People’s War (HIST)

Parminda Zarrinkamar, The Women Will Save Us: the Negotiations of The Personal and Political in the Feminist Writings of Edward Carpenter (HIST)

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