Postgraduate and Early Career Essay Prize Winners
- The 2023 Ann Moss Early Career Essay Prize was awarded to Maria Czepiel, ‘Jewish Scholarship in the Lyric Poetry of Benito Arias Montano (ca. 1525–1598).
- The 2022 Ann Moss Early Career Essay Prize was awarded to Iván Parga Ornelas, ‘The Promise of Immortality in Maffeo Vegio's Supplementum Aeneidos’.
- The 2021 Ann Moss Early Career Essay Prize was awarded to George Brocklehurst, ‘Giovanni Pontano’s Convivial Poetics: The Lepidina (1496) and the Renaissance Art of Banqueting’.
- The 2020 Ann Moss Early Career Essay Prize was awarded to Irina Tautschnig, ‘Constructing Authority in the Paratext: The Poems to Johannes Hevelius’s Selenographia’.
- The 2019 Ann Moss Early Career Essay Prize was awarded to Elena Spinelli. Her prize-winning essay entitled ‘Sisterhood and Citizenship in Thomas Watson’s Antigone’ has now been published as: Elena Spinelli, "Sisterhood and the law in Thomas Watson’s Antigone", Renaissance Studies 2021, 1–18
- The 2018 SNLS Early-Career Essay Prize was awarded to Maria Giulia Genghini, for her essay, ‘‘Quomodo cantabimus canticum Domini in terra aliena?’ Imagining a Neo-Latin World in seventeenth-century Quito’.
- The 2017 SNLS Early-Career Essay Prize was awarded to Bianca Facchini, for her essay, 'In Praise of a Martial Lord: Porcelio Pandone's Feltria Between Panegyric and Scepticism'.
- The 2016 SNLS Early-Career Essay Prize was awarded to Caroline Spearing, for her essay, 'Tangled Thickets and Sacred Groves. Virgil and Lucan in Book 6 of Abraham Cowley’s Plantarum Libri Sex (1668)'.
- The inaugural SNLS Early-Career Essay Prize (2015) was awarded to Bernhard Schirg (Freie Universität Berlin). His prize-winning essay entitled ‘The rebel residing in Cortese’s ideal palace. Splendor and magnificence in Cardinal Bernardino de Carvajal's (1456–1523) residence in the (lost) Palazzo Millini’has now been published as: Bernhard Schirg, "Cortese's ideal cardinal? Art, splendour and magnificence in Cardinal Bernardino de Carvajal’s (1456–1523) Roman residence", Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 80 (2017), 61–82.
Undergraduate Essay Prize Winners
- The first Undergraduate Essay Prize (2023) was awarded to Fiona Beeston,‘Dickinson Demystified: How Emily Dickinson uses Classical Motifs, Symbolism and Imagery to Mask her Sapphic Relationship’.
