2013: Sarah Bull, “Purveyor of Garbage? Charles Carrington and the Marketing of Sexual Science in Late-Victorian Britain”

2014: Holly Furneaux, “Children of the Regiment: Soldiers, Adoption, and Military Tenderness in Victorian Culture”

2015: Ann-Marie Dunbar, “Making the Case: Detection and Confession in Lady Audley’s Secret and The Woman in White”

2016: Aviva Briefel, “Spectral Matter: The Afterlife of Clothes in the Nineteenth-Century Ghost Story”

2017: Deborah Lutz, “Emily Brontë’s Paper Work”

2018: Doreen Thierauf, “Daniel Deronda, Marital Rape, and the End of Reproduction”

2019: Lisa Hager, “A Case for a Trans Studies Turn in Victorian Studies: ‘Female Husbands’ of the Nineteenth Century”

2021: Anna Berman, “The Problem with Brothers in the Nineteenth-Century English Novel”

2022: Jill Galvan, “Love Story’s Ontology: Species Feeling in New Grub Street”