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      <image:title>News - 2024 Hennig Cohen Prize Award - The Melville Society's Hennig Cohen Prize Committee has selected its recipient for the best article, book chapter, or essay in a book about Herman Melville published in 2024. The winner is Geoffrey R. Kirsch his essay “Piercing the Corporate Whale: Agents, Principals, and the Personified Impersonal in Moby-Dick,” published in Leviathan, vol. 26, no. 3, pp.55-68.</image:title>
      <image:caption>The award was founded in 1998 in honor of Hennig Cohen (1919–1996), an early member of the Society and a dedicated teacher, scholar, and modern editor of Herman Melville's works. The award is typically made in the year after the article or chapter was published.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>News - 2023 Hennig Cohen Prize Award - The Melville Society's Hennig Cohen Prize Committee has selected its recipient for the best article, book chapter, or essay in a book about Herman Melville published in 2023. The winner is Sari Altschuler for her essay “Babo’s ‘Mute’-ny: Deaf Culture and Black Testimony in Antebellum America,” published in PMLA, vol. 138, no. 5, 2023, pp. 1149-1164.</image:title>
      <image:caption>The award was founded in 1998 in honor of Hennig Cohen (1919–1996), an early member of the Society and a dedicated teacher, scholar, and modern editor of Herman Melville's works. The award is typically made in the year after the article or chapter was published.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>January 3-5, 2025 at the New Bedford Whaling Museum</image:caption>
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      <image:title>News - Hennig Cohen Prize Deadline September 15th - Since 1998, the Melville Society has honored the memory of Professor Hennig Cohen with an annual award for the best article, book chapter, or essay in a book about Herman Melville. In addition to his founding roles in the American Studies Association, American Quarterly, and the Melville Society, the late Hennig Cohen (1919-96) was a dedicated teacher, scholar, and modern editor of Herman Melville's works.</image:title>
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      <image:title>News - 2022 Hennig Cohen Prize Award - The Melville Society's Hennig Cohen Prize Committee has selected its recipient for the best article, book chapter, or essay in a book about Herman Melville published in 2022. The winner is Justina Torrance for her essay, “Melville’s Milton: Of the Devil’s Party and Knows It," published in A New Companion to Herman Melville, edited by Wyn Kelley and Christopher Ohge (Blackwell).</image:title>
      <image:caption>The award was founded in 1998 in honor of Hennig Cohen (1919–1996), an early member of the Society and a dedicated teacher, scholar, and modern editor of Herman Melville's works. The award is typically made in the year after the article or chapter was published.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Prof. Dennis Berthold presenting at the 8th International Melville Society Conference in Rome, June 2011</image:caption>
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