The Henry James Review
Conferences and Calls for Papers

Leon Edel Prize

The Leon Edel Prize will be awarded for the best essay on Henry James by a beginning scholar. The prize carries with it an award of $150, and the prize-winning essay will be published in HJR. The competition is open to applicants who have not held a full-time academic appointment for more than four years. Independent scholars and graduate students are encouraged to apply. Essays should be 20-30 pages (including notes), original, and not under submission elsewhere or previously published. Please follow regular HJR guidelines as to format, and identify essays as submissions for the Leon Edel Prize. A brief curriculum vitae should be included. Deadline: November 1, 2012.

Teaching James

In Fall 1996, HJR published a special forum issue on "Teaching James" in order to open the journal to conversation on the ways in which we teach James. Readers' responses to that issue indicate that the many HJR readers who are teachers of James would like to continue discussing pedagogies. To that end, HJR will now accept submissions of short essays on teaching James. Such essays will undergo HJR's normal, refereed submission process and, if accepted, be published in regular issues of the journal. HJR's primary function will continue to be, of course, the publication of scholarly and critical work on Henry James. Essays on pedagogy will simply become an added, occasional feature of the journal that allows us to explore the ways in which teaching and scholarship nourish one another. I will be happy to consult with authors about potential submissions.