The Society for French Studies is pleased to announce that the winner of this year’s R. H. Gapper Postgraduate Essay Prize is Sarah Hickmott, a doctoral researcher at the University of Oxford. The prize was awarded for an essay titled ‘(En) Corps Sonore’, an interdisciplinary reflection on the question of listening in the work of the philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy.
The prize includes an award of £750 and expenses-paid travel to the Annual Conference of the Society, to be hosted this year by the University of Aberdeen from 30 June to 2 July.
The Society offers its congratulations to Sarah Hickmott on her achievement, and also to the the joint runners-up for this year’s award: Edmund Birch of the University of Cambridge, for an essay titled ‘Maupassant’s Bel-Ami and the Secrets of Actualité’; and Emma Claussen of the University of Oxford, for an essay titled ‘“Pour cognoistre les Politiques”: A study of the term “Politique” in the Dialogue d’entre le Maheustre et le Manant and the Satyre Ménippée’).
The Society for French Studies gratefully acknowledges the generous support of the R. H. Gapper Charitable Trust for this prize.