Melville Society 2/13/24 Melville Society 2/13/24

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).

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Call for Nominations: Hennig Cohen Prize

Call for nominations for the 2022 Hennig Cohen Prize. Deadline to submit nominations: September 30, 2023.

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$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.

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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.

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Call for Nominations: Hennig Cohen Prize

Call for nominations for the 2021 Hennig Cohen Prize. Deadline to submit nominations: December 21, 2022.

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Announcing Travel Grants Awarded For the 2022 International Melville Society Conference

Announcing Travel Grants Awarded for the 2022 International Melville Society Conference in Paris

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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

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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”