April C. McGinnis has been named the winner of the 2024 Keats-Shelley Prize in the Essay Division for her paper titled “Violence at a Glacial Pace: Reading Shelley’s ‘Mont Blanc’ in an Age of Melting Ice Caps.”
This award, announced in London on April 29, is conferred by the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association.
Winning entries are published in the The Keats-Shelley Review, a leading international journal for the study of British Romanticism.
McGinnis will receive her doctoral degree this month. After graduation, she will serve as teaching assistant professor of English at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina.