The Nancy F. Marino Prize for Best Essay in
Hispanomedieval Studies
at the International Congress on Medieval Studies at
Kalamazoo
La corónica is pleased to announce the
2023-2024 winner of the Nancy F. Marino Prize for Best
Essay in Hispanomedieval Studies:
Roberto Talavera Pagán
for his paper, “Cringing for Another: Shame and Confession in Vida de Santa Pelágia”
The Nancy F. Marino Prize honors the contribution of
Professor Marino (1951-2018) to the profession, in
particular her devotion and dedication to the many
colleagues and students in Hispanomedieval Studies she
mentored and inspired in her role as a founder of
IMANA and as facilitator for the field each year at
the International Congress on Medieval Studies at
Kalamazoo.
The Nancy F. Marino Prize recognizes excellent
Hispanomedieval scholarship in an essay of outstanding
quality written by a graduate student or early career
scholar and accepted for the upcoming annual
International Congress on Medieval Studies at
Kalamazoo.
The winning paper is determined by a panel of judges,
selected annually by La corónica. The winner
will receive: $1,000 cash prize, recognition at
the International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, and an invitation
to expand the winning paper and submit it for
consideration for publication in La corónica.
Eligibility
All early career scholars (who have received their
PhDs in the last 4 years)
Any student enrolled in an MA or PhD program at
conference time
Papers may address any topic in
Hispanomedievalism.
Submitted papers must be accepted and presented at
the International Congress on Medieval Studies at
Kalamazoo.
Submission
Submit papers electronically as attachments (Word
or PDF) via Google form (2022 link will be made available soon).
2024 deadline announcement forthcoming.
Please note
Papers should be in the form actually to be
delivered at Kalamazoo (not a longer essay on which
the conference paper is based).
Submissions should include a cover page with the
following information: title of the paper, name,
academic affiliation, and email address.
Please do not submit a handout or Powerpoint. All
quotations should be included in the body of the
paper and a Works Cited list provided at the end.
While formatting changes, correction of typos, and
the addition of a Works Cited page are acceptable,
changes to the substance of the argument are not.
Award Recipients
2023-2024: Roberto Talavera Pagán, for his paper "Cringing for Another: Shame and Confession in Vida de Santa Pelágia"
2022-2023: Giada Mirelli, for her paper “Siervo libre del amor: Juan Rodríguez del Padrón's Vita nuova”
2021-2022: Daria Safronova, for her paper “Oral Speech in Legal Practice in Northern Iberia, c. 900–1100”
2020-2021: Adam Mahler, for his paper "Reading and Writing: The Unexemplary in Dom Duarte’s Leal conselheiro"
2019-2020: Rebecca de Souza, for her paper
“Destabilising Monotheism; or Rethinking Religious
Identity Formation in the Medieval Castilian Epic”
