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Catherine Bates, Research Professor in the Department of English has today been awarded the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize by the British Academy. Professor Bates has been awarded the prize for her book ‘Masculinity and the Hunt: Wyatt to Spenser’ published by Oxford University Press.

One or two prizes are awarded each year ‘to a woman of any nationality who, in the judgement of the Council of the British Academy, has written or published ... an historical or critical work of sufficient value on any subject connected with English Literature, preference being given to a work regarding one of the poets Byron, Shelley and Keats’.

‘Dr Elizabeth Goldring’s most recent book, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, and the World of Elizabethan Art (Yale University Press, 2014), has been long-listed for the 2015 William M. B. Berger Prize for British Art History. The complete long list may be found in the current issue of The British Art Journal.’