Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship

Student Essay Contest

Announcing The Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship
Prize For Student Essays

The Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship (SMFS) is happy to announce its first prize for student essays, both undergraduate and graduate. There may be years when the prizes will not be given, depending on submissions in that given year. The deadline for submission in the 2007-2008 competition is June 15, 2008. Please email your submission as a Word attachment to Jennifer N. Brown, jbrown@hartford.edu.

Guidelines:
Undergraduate competition: Open to all undergraduates, including students who graduate in 2008. The paper should be 5-10 pages in length and should engage questions of gender and/or sexuality in the Middle Ages. Papers in all disciplines are encouraged. The prize will be 5 years’ membership to SMFS and publication of the winning paper on our website, http://hosted.lib.uiowa.edu/smfs/mff

Graduate competition: Open to all graduate students, including those who will complete their degree in 2008. The paper should be under 25 pages and engage questions of gender and/or sexuality in the Middle Ages. Papers in all disciplines are encouraged. The prize will be 5 years’ membership to SMFS and publication of the winning paper, subject to editing, in our journal Medieval Feminist Forum.

Student Essay Submission Sheet - due with paper by June 15