SAC Early Career Essay Prize

The New Chaucer Society grants an essay prize biennially for the best full-length article published in Studies in the Age of Chaucer by an early career scholar. The prize is presented at the Biennial NCS Congress and covers the preceding two years of publications in SAC. Essays are submitted by the editors of SAC for all early career scholars who have earned their PhD or DPhil within the past seven years.

Previous prize winners include:

Bridget Whearty, winner 2020 (inaugural prize) with “Chaucer’s Death, Lydgate’s Guild, and the Construction of Community in Fifteenth-Century English Literature”, SAC 40 (2018)

Megan Behrend, winner 2022 with “‘Un- English’ Chaucer Macaronic Verse and Codicological Form in Cambridge University Library, MS Gg.4.27”, SAC 43 (2021)

Michelle Ripplinger, winner 2024, with “Chaucer’s Proleptic Palinode” SAC 45 (2023).