Professor Laurel Brake awarded Colby Prize
Laurel Brake, Professor Emerita of Literature and Print Culture and Marysa Demoor, University of Ghent are co-winners of the prestigious Colby Prize 2009 for their Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism in paper and online, published by the British Library, Academia, and ProQuest.
Laurel is a long-standing member of Birkbeck’s Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies. The prize for the Best Scholarly Book In the Field of Victorian Periodicals is awarded by the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals. It follows the award of the MLA of America’s 2009 James Russell Lowell Prize to another founding member of Birkbeck’s Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies. Isobel Armstrong, a Fellow of Birkbeck and Professor Emerita, won the James Russell Lowell Prize for her book Victorian Glassworlds: Glass Culture and the Imagination 1830-1880.
The Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies was founded in 1996 as a collaborative intellectual project shared by the Department of English and Humanities, the Department of History, Classics and Archaeology and the Department of History of Art, Film and Visual Media.
Issued: 18 June 2010