聽Dr. Julianna Leachman, assistant professor of Literature, was recently awarded the Carson McCullers Society 2018 Outstanding Conference Paper Prize for her paper, which she presented on the Marginalized Bodies and Alternative Affects panel at the biennial Society for the Study of Southern Literature (SSSL) conference in Austin, Texas in 2018. Dr. Leachman鈥檚 essay received the following commendation from the prize judges: 鈥淎 truly impressive paper that says something new about McCullers’s most discussed work and themes. The comparison with Dostoevsky’s ‘The Idiot’ is convincing and provides an important and overlooked context for discussions of character, region, nonconformity and narrative silence.鈥� In addition to a $100 honorarium, Dr. Leachman received public recognition though the Carson McCullers Society website, Facebook page and annual newsletter. This essay forms part of Dr. Leachman鈥檚 broader scholarship exploring the connections between literatures of Russia and the US South, which Carson McCullers identifies as a 鈥渃ousinly resemblance鈥� in her 1941 essay, 鈥淭he Russian Realists and Southern Literature.鈥�
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