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Gardner Awarded 2012 EBSCOhost-RSAP Book Prize

February 17, 2013

Gardner Awarded 2012 EBSCOhost-RSAP Book Prize

Professor Jared Gardner’s The Rise and Fall of Early American Magazine Culture (published by the University of Illinois Press) is  the winner of the 2012 EBSCOhost-RSAP Book Prize. Recognizing the best title published by an academic press in the field of American periodical studies, the prize is sponsored jointly by EBSCOhost and the Research Society for American Periodicals, and presented every other year.  The present competition considered titles from across the field published between January 1, 2011 and December 31, 2012.

The EBSCOhost-RSAP judges were Jean Lee Cole (Loyola University Maryland), Craig Monk (University of Lethbridge), Cynthia Patterson (University of South Florida), and Karen Roggenkamp (Texas A&M University-Commerce), who described The Rise and Fall of Early American Magazine Culture as “extremely important for advancing both periodical study and the study of early American literature, which has been undergoing rapid (and welcome) transformation in recent years.”

Professor Gardner will be honored with his prize at the 24th annual conference of the American Literature Association in Boston, May 23-26, 2013, .