Department of English

Prof. S. Pearl Brilmyer’s The Science of Character: Human Objecthood and the Ends of Victorian Realism has won the 2024 Sonya Rudikoff Prize for the Best First Book in Victorian Studies, awarded by the Northeast Victorian Studies Association.

The Sonya Rudikoff Award for the best first book in Victorian Studies was established by the Robert Gutman family in honor of Mr. Gutman’s late wife. Sonya Rudikoff was an active member of the Northeast Victorian Studies Association and a recognized scholar. Her book, Ancestral Houses: Virginia Woolf and the Aristocracy, was published posthumously.