Virginia Butler wins Bruce Harkness Young Scholar Award

Presented by the Joseph Conrad Society of America, for her article, "Race, Gender, and Closure in *Lord Jim*."

The Joseph Conrad Society of America was established in 1975 to foster and promote the study of Joseph Conrad. It has long helped support a community of readers interested in the life and work of Joseph Conrad, and continues today to seek out the full diversity of critical and creative approaches to reading Conrad.

The Joseph Conrad Society of America presents an annual Bruce Harkness Young Conrad  Scholar Award, named in honor of Bruce Harkness, Conrad scholar and former president of the society. The award is presented to an outstanding  graduate student who is writing a dissertation on Conrad or to a  recent  Ph.D. who has been teaching for no more than five years and is doing  research on Conrad.  The award consists of a $100 honorarium, one  year's membership in the Joseph Conrad Society of America, and a  complimentary invitation to the annual Conrad Society dinner held  during  the Modern Language Association convention.

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