THE LORRAINE AWARD WINNERS
1991–1999

Thanks to the generous donations of Lorraine K. Lawton’s family and many friends, Purdue University has established the LORRAINE AWARD in her memory.

Dr. Lawton received her Ph.D. from Purdue posthumously in December of 1991 in recognition of her proven scholarship as manifested by her publications in English, Italian, and French, and her work in progress on her dissertation: Golden Necklace, Leaden Chain: Socio-Biological Destiny and the Female Artist. She argued that “women are torn, in a manner unknown to men, between their biologically and socially influenced urge to create offspring and to nurture, and their desire to express themselves individually outside the confines of family.” A lieutenant in the United States Army Reserve, she died tragically near Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, on July 10, 1991, as she rushed to care for her soldiers during the Gulf War.

This yearly award of $1,000 is intended to encourage and acknowledge research and writing by and or about women in Italian literature and/or film as presented at the Purdue University Conference on Romance Languages, Literatures, & Film and/or published in the Romance Languages Annual.

While we continue to grieve the loss of Lorraine, we are happy to announce the winner of the eighth LORRAINE AWARD:

1999
Daniela Orlandi
University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana

La schizofrenia come forma poetica
e come forma clinica nella scrittura di Alda Merini

1998
Cosetta Gaudenzi
University of Georgia
WOMEN AND COLONIAL PROPAGANDA IN ITALY:
CAROLINA INVERNIZIO’S ODIO DI ARABA

1997
Cristina Perissinotto
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Di vincitori, di vinti e d’idee. Fanciulli e filosofia nei romanzi di Stefano Benni

1996
MARGARET E. KERN
University of Chicago
SOLITUDE AND SOLIDARITY:
FEMININE SPACE IN THE SHORT STORIES OF CATERINA PERCOTO

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MEREDITH KENNEDY RAY
University of Chicago
SETTLING THE DEBT: VERONICA FRANCO’S LITERARY ECONOMICS

1995
DOROTHÉE BONNIGAL
Université de Bourgogne
RETRAINED WOMEN AND ARTISTIC EMANCIPATION: AUTHORITY AND RESISTANCE
IN FEDERICO FELLINI’S GIULIETTA DEGLI SPIRITI AND JOHN CASSAVETES’S
A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE

1994
edvige giunta
Union College
Blending “Literary” Discourses:
Helen Barolini’s Italian/American Narratives

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Virginia Picchietti
Indiana University
‘Tornare indietro verso l’allegria del futuro’: Daughterhood and ‘Revisionary Mythopoesis’ in Dacia Maraini’s “Demetra ritrovata”

1993
dana E. stewart
Stanford University
A matter of perspective:
optics and Poetics in the early italian love lyric

1992
ANNA CAMAITI-HOSTERT
Loyola University, Chicago
Potere dell’alteritÀ—alteritÀ del potere:
una lettura del libro di dacia maraini
La lunga vita di marianna ucria

1991
Cristina Della Coletta
University of California, Los Angeles
Aldo Palazzeschi. Esordi Poetici