Patterson Prize 2024 (French submission)

Deadline: March 15, 2024

Prize: $500 USD and publication in Simone de Beauvoir Studies, vol. 35, no.
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The award is named after Yolanda Astarita Patterson, one of the founding
editors of Simone de Beauvoir Studies and Editor in Chief of the journal
for more than thirty years (1985-2016). The Patterson Prize is awarded
annually to a work that demonstrates excellence in writing while also
embodying modes of thought and expression characteristic of Beauvoir’s
oeuvre.

Hallmarks of Beauvoir’s writing include a capacity to speak to the most
pressing issues of our time; rigorous thinking that attends to the
complexity and ambiguity of lived experience; a remarkable openness to new
ideas; detailed attention to marginalized voices and first-person accounts
of phenomena; the capacity to utilize multiple modes of expression; and a
courageous insistence on challenging oppression in all its forms. The
Patterson Prize Committee invites submissions from authors writing from any
cultural, disciplinary, interdisciplinary, and stylistic perspective. We
especially invite submissions on topics relevant to Beauvoir’s legacy such
as gender and sexuality, race and culture, literature, existentialism,
global politics, and others.

Winning articles represent original and cutting-edge work; term papers,
papers that discuss basic understandings of Beauvoir’s views, and papers
that do not reflect an awareness of previously published literature in
Beauvoir studies will not be considered. We encourage authors to read the
winning texts from prior years, as well as other articles published in Simone
de Beauvoir Studies to gain a sense of the quality and originality expected
of winning submissions.



Eligibility:

Any work of previously unpublished writing that has been authored by
individuals at any stage of their careers who have not published a
monograph in the area of submission at the time of submission. (For
example, authors who submit an academic article cannot have published an
academic monograph).

Submissions should not exceed 8000 words including references and they
should follow SdBS style described in the Author Guide.


All questions regarding the 2024 Patterson Prize should be addressed to
editor-in-chief Claudia Bouliane: [log in to unmask]

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