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March 23, 2007
IAFA Graduate Student Award Announcement
IAFA GRADUATE STUDENT AWARD
The International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts is pleased to announce the winner of the annual Graduate Student Award. The award, and a cheque for $250, was presented to the winner at the Awards Banquet on Saturday evening.
This year's winner was Richard Landon (University of Iowa) for his paper: "A Half-Naked Muscleman in Trunks: Charles Atlas, Superheroes, and Comic Book Masculinity."
While this essay was the clear winner for all three judges, three others were noted as deserving honorable mention (in no particular order/ranking):
"A Dark and Powerful Force: Female Sexuality in the 'Authentic' Horror Film" (Michael Blouin)
"Looking for Echoes of Medieval Poetry in Arda's Nature" (Stefan Ekman)
"Representations of Gypsiness in English-language Fantasy Literature" (Jeana Jorgensen)
This year's award committee consisted of Edward James, Darja Malcolm-Clark, and Jeffrey Weinstock.
The Graduate Student Award is open to all graduate students (master's and doctoral) at any stage of their programs every year. The student must have had a paper accepted for presentation at the Conference. The paper submitted for the competition should be essentially the same as that presented at the conference. The paper selected will be published in the Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts and therefore must not have been previously published or submitted for publication elsewhere.
Posted by GrahamMurphy at March 23, 2007 10:10 AM