The Mark-Madoff Prize was created in 1990 to honour the memory of the late Mark Madoff. Each year Lumen awards a $250 prize to two students for the best essay written in English and the best in French published in its annual issue. The committee responsible for selecting these two essays each year includes the guest editors (the editors of the annual issue) as well as the two editors of the journal.
Past Recipients
2022Francesca Francoeur, «Des déclinaisons de l’illusion et de son rôle dans le Discours sur le bonheur d’Émilie du Châtelet»
Anders Muskens, "The Importance of a Rhetorical Approach for the Historically Informed Performance of Music: 1740–1830"
2021
Florian Ponty, « Les traductions des voyages imaginaires : exotisme et adaptation »
Vanessa Van Puyvelde, "Beyond Boundaries: Negotiations of National Identity in Den Vlaemschen Indicateur (1779-87) and the Journal des Pays-Bas autrichiens (1786)"
2020
Jérémie Leclerc, "'Wise Passiveness' - Wordsworth, Spinoza, and the Ethic of Passivity"
2019
Sarah Carter, "'Our Modern Priapus': Thauma and the Isernian Simulacra"
2017
Laetitia Saintes (Université Catholique de Louvain), « Germaine de Staël, citoyenne du monde : Le cosmopolitisme dans l'œuvre staëlien »
Constantine C. Vassiliou (University of Toronto), "'Le système de John Law' and the Spectre of Modern Despotism in the Political Thought of Montesquieu"
2013
Johanna Danciu (York University), « L'hybridité du vaudeville lors de son passage de l'Ancien Régime au XIXe siècle »
Ruth Scobie (Worcester College, Oxford), "'To dress a room for Montagu': Pacific Cosmopolitanism and Elizabeth Montagu's Feather Hangings"
2007
Tobias Heinrich (Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for the History and Theory of Biography, Vienna), "'This, I believe, is the only means of defying death': Johann Gottfried Herder's Concept of Intellectual Biography"
2006
Morgan Rooney (University of Ottawa), "Reading History in a Revolutionary Age: Strategies for Interpreting 1688 in Richard Price, James Mackintosh, and Edmund Burke"
2005
Emmanuel Bouchard (Université de Montréal), « Marques d'ironie dans les Avantures de Monsieur Robert Chevalier, dit de Beauchêne d'Alain-René Lesage »
2004
Noelle Gallagher (University of Chicago), "Point of View and Narrative Form in Moll Flanders and the Eighteenth-Century Secret History"
Marc-André Nadeau (University of Ottawa), « Le scepticisme de Rousseau dans la Profession de foi du vicaire savoyard »
2003
Mitia Rioux-Beaulne (Université de Montréal), « Aller retour: Fonction épistémologique et reflexive de l’altérité chez le Diderot de l’Encyclopédie »
Lauren Craig Stephen (McMaster University), "'Preternatural Pollutions': Nature, Culture, and Same-Sex Desire in Edward Ward's 'Of the Mollies Club'"
2002
Annie Cloutier (Université Laval), « L'œil mobile: Louis Sébastien Mercier et l'écriture de l'instant »
Darryl P. Domingo (University of Toronto), "'The Various Modes of Nature's Least Admirable Workes': or, The Collected Dunciad"
2001
Martin Nadeau (École des hautes études en sciences sociales), « Le théâtre de Marivaux et la Terreur »
Suzanne Stewart (University of Saskatchewan), "'Beyond that Small Circle All is Foreign to Us': Spatial and Social Cohesion in Sarah Scott's Millenium Hall"
2000
Sébastien Charles (Université d'Ottawa), « Existence et temporalité au Siècle des lumières. Turgot lecteur de Maupertuis et Berkeley »
Patricia Simmons (Cambridge University), "John Locke, Memory, and Narratives of Origin"
1999
Adam Budd (University of Toronto), "Moral Correction: The Refusal of Revision in Henry Fielding's Amelia"
Ugo Dionne (Université de Paris III), « Admirable et cavalier : le XVIIIe siècle de Philippe Sollers »
1998
Hélène Cussac (Université de Clermont-Ferrand II), « Bonheur et vie matérielle d'après le Tableau de Paris de Louis-Sébastien Mercier »
Ellie Kennedy (Queen's University), "Rousseau and Werther: In Search of a Sympathetic Soul"
1997
Jean Coutin (Université de Paris-IV, Sorbonne), « L'utopie sexuelle devant l'histoire. La temporalité ambiguë du roman pornographique français du XVIIIe siècle »
1996
Richard Pickard (University of Alberta), "Environmentalism and "Best Husbandry": Cutting Down Trees in Augustan Poetry"
1995
Deborah McLeod (University of Alberta), "Doth a Single Monk a Gothic Make?: Constructing the Boundaries to Keep the Fictional Hordes at Bay"
1994
Stephen Snobelen (University of Victoria), "The Argument over Prophecy: An Eighteenth-Century Debate between William Whiston and Anthony Collins"
1992
Noel Elizabeth Currie (Vancouver), "Cook and the Cannibals: Nootka Sound, 1778"
1991
Jean Coates Cleary (University of Victoria), "'The Knife which Amputates the Morbid Limb': The Domestication of Female Desire in Late Georgian Feminocentric Conduct-Book Fiction"
