2023 Hennig Cohen Prize Award
The Hennig Cohen Prize for 2023 is awarded to Sari Altschuler for her essay “Babo’s ‘Mute’-ny: Deaf Culture and Black Testimony in Antebellum America,” published in PMLA, vol. 138, no. 5, 2023, pp. 1149-1164.
2022 Hennig Cohen Prize Award
The Hennig Cohen Prize for 2022 is awarded to Justina Torrance for her essay, “Melville’s Milton: Of the Devil’s Party and Knows It," published in A New Companion to Herman Melville, edited by Wyn Kelley and Christopher Ohge (Blackwell).
Call for Nominations: Hennig Cohen Prize
Call for nominations for the 2022 Hennig Cohen Prize. Deadline to submit nominations: September 30, 2023.
$25,000 Matching Pledge for the Murray Endowment
In honor of the Melville Society’s 75th anniversary, Professor Dennis Berthold has generously pledged to match donations in any amount up to $25,000, directed to the Society’s Murray Endowment, between June 1 and November 1, 2023.
2021 Hennig Cohen Prize Award
The Hennig Cohen Prize for 2021 goes to Daniel Diez Couch and Michael Anthony Nicholson for their article “Silent Eloquence: Literary Extracts, the Aesthetics of Disability, and Melville’s ‘Fragments,’” which was published in Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies.
Call for Nominations: Hennig Cohen Prize
Call for nominations for the 2021 Hennig Cohen Prize. Deadline to submit nominations: December 21, 2022.
Announcing Travel Grants Awarded For the 2022 International Melville Society Conference
Announcing Travel Grants Awarded for the 2022 International Melville Society Conference in Paris
Travel Grants Supporting Participation in the 2022 International Melville Society Conference
Announcing Travel Grants supporting participation in the 2022 International Melville Society Conference in Paris
2020 Hennig Cohen Prize Award
The 2020 Hennig Cohen Prize has been awarded to Édouard Marsoin for his article “‘No Land of Pleasure Unalloyed’: Economies of Pleasure and Pain in Melville’s Typee and Omoo”
Call for Nominations: Hennig Cohen Prize
Call for nominations for the 2020 Hennig Cohen Prize. Deadline to submit nominations 15 November 2021.
Call For Papers: 13th International Melville Society Conference, Paris 2022
CFP for 13th International Melville Society Conference, Paris 2022
MLA 2022 Call for Papers
CFP for MLA 2022 in Washington DC - Two Panels: "Embrace All Aliens”: Melville and Migration and "Melville and the Cultures of Antiquity