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Distinguished Achievement Award, 2015
Dr. Sarah Wider is the recipient of this year’s Distinguished Achievement Award for her outstanding scholarly work and leadership in Emerson studies. Sarah is a professor at Colgate University and a past president of RWES. She also served as RWES Program chair, the book review editor for the Emerson Society…
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New Publication: Toward a Female Genealogy of Transcendentalism
Newly published: Toward a Female Genealogy of Transcendentalism, edited by Jana L. Argersinger and Phyllis Cole. This first large-scale, collaborative study of women’s voices and their vital role in the American transcendentalist movement began as the 2011 special issue of ESQ and is now greatly expanded and published by the…
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Distinguished Achievement Award, 2014
Dr. Robert Habich is the recipient of this year’s RWES Distinguished Achievement Award. Each year the Society presents the award to an outstanding scholar and leader in Emerson studies. Bob is a professor at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. He is a past president of the RWE Society, as…
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Distinguished Achievement Award, 2015
Dr. Sarah Wider is the recipient of this year’s Distinguished Achievement Award for her outstanding scholarly work and leadership in Emerson studies. Sarah is a professor at Colgate University and a past president of RWES. She also served as RWES Program chair, the book review editor for the Emerson Society…
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Congratulations to 2014 Award Recipients
The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society proudly announces our 2014 special award winners. Congratulations! Graduate Student Paper Award: Robert Rabiee, Ph.D. candidate, USC University of Southern California. Subvention Award: Dominic Mastroianni, Assistant Professor of English, Clemson University, for his book Politics and Skepticism in Antebellum American Literature (forthcoming, Cambridge University Press,…
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Emerson and Journaling
Jericho Williams, Spartanburg Methodist College At the small liberal arts school where I work, we begin the fall 2022 semester with an assortment of challenges, including budgetary cuts, the cancellation of a school-issued Chromebooks program that assisted our neediest students, and high campus-wide turnover. Concerns about student well-being, success, and…
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In the Woods: Emerson and Cross-Country Running
James A. Downs I was in the unique but no less fortunate position of being a recent graduate of Saint Michael’s College so that I would co-lead and also immerse myself in Dr. Joan Wry’s Emersonian Cross-Country retreat. The retreat centered around Dr. Wry’s own research, in addition to research…
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Radically Inclusive Classroom Practices: Two Student-Centered Methods of Teaching Emerson to Ungraduates
Austin Bailey and Christina Katopodis, CUNY Graduate Center I believe that our own experience instructs us that the secret of Education lies in respecting the pupil. – Ralph Waldo Emerson (“Education”) First, a brief word about who we are and where we come from. Christina Katopodis holds a PhD in…
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