The 91抖阴 Berkeley Department of English is delighted to announce that Professor Kevis Goodman's听Pathologies of Motion: Historical Thinking in Medicine, Aesthetics, and Poetics听(Yale Univ. Press, 2023) has been awarded the 2025 .
The judges for the prize were struck by Goodman's shedding of new light "on the embodiment of history, as a force molding cognitive action at distance and incarnated in the framing of verse..." We offer our congratulations to Professor Goodman on this achievement!听
See more below from the prize judges and team at听Studies in English Literature 1500-1900.
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The team at SEL is so pleased to announce the winner of the 2025 Robert Lowry Patten Award: Kevis Goodman for Pathologies of Motion: Historical Thinking in Medicine, Aesthetics, and Poetics (Yale Univ. Press, 2023). The award is presented to the best recent study in British literary scholarship of the Restoration, eighteenth century, or nineteenth century that was considered in volume 63 of SEL.
Our judges had this to say of Goodman鈥檚 book: 鈥淲e are struck by the unfolding of Goodman鈥檚 argument, not just its substance but also the interlocking dimensions of its handsomely phrased exposition. In the process Goodman sheds new light on the embodiment of history, as a force molding cognitive action at distance and incarnated in the framing of verse; and she advocates, in cogently sophisticated practice, the 鈥榬ecursive codetermination鈥� of a 鈥榮tructural causality鈥� embedded in its effects.鈥�
This year鈥檚 selection honors the intellectual reach and precision that defined Bob Patten鈥檚 own scholarship, and it reflects SEL鈥檚 continued commitment to recognizing work that reshapes our understanding of literary history with clarity, rigor, and interpretive imagination.
- Amy Kahrmann Huseby, Executive Editor
