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Kristin Bluemel, Ph.D., associate dean of the McMurray School of Humanities and Social Sciences, professor of English, and Wayne D. McMurray Endowed Chair in the Humanities, earned a place on the Modernist Studies Association (MSA) Book Prize shortlist<\/a> for “Enchanted Wood: Engraving a Place for Women Artists in Rural Britain<\/a>” (University of Minnesota Press, 2025).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The award goes to the best monograph published in the previous year by an established modernist scholar. A panel of judges determines the book that made the most significant contribution to modernist studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Enchanted Wood” tells the overlooked story of four women wood engravers who helped reshape the visual and literary landscape of modern Britain. These craftswomen flourished during Depression-era British publishing, where they illustrated children\u2019s and adult\u2019s books by reworking Thomas Bewick\u2019s eighteenth-century naturalist print traditions for modern reflections on gender, marriage, and motherhood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bluemel joins four scholars from internationally renowned research universities whose books were also shortlisted for the MSA Book Prize.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bluemel recently lectured on her research<\/a> at the Lit & Phil in Newcastle, England. Her work was also highlighted in “The Art of the Everyday<\/a>,” which appeared in the Fall\/Winter 2025 edition of Monmouth Magazine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kristin Bluemel, Ph.D., associate dean of the McMurray School of Humanities and Social Sciences, professor of English, and Wayne D. McMurray Endowed Chair in the Humanities, earned a place on the Modernist Studies Association (MSA) Book Prize shortlist for “Enchanted Wood: Engraving a Place for Women Artists in Rural Britain” (University of Minnesota Press, 2025). […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":545,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[417,912,444,423,170],"tags":[7682,432],"person":[881],"audience":[11,8],"school":[110],"program":[],"class_list":["post-40802298075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards-publications-research","category-cec-news","category-monmouth-now","category-faculty-perspectives","category-research","tag-modernist-studies-association","tag-newsletter","person-kbluemel","audience-current-student","audience-faculty","school-english"],"squareimage":{"id":40802263008,"rendered":"\"Interim","original":{"url":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2022\/03\/DSC_2721-684x1024-1-e1646840340792.jpg","width":683,"height":683}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802298075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/545"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40802298075"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802298075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40802298140,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802298075\/revisions\/40802298140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40802298075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40802298075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40802298075"},{"taxonomy":"person","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person?post=40802298075"},{"taxonomy":"audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/audience?post=40802298075"},{"taxonomy":"school","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/school?post=40802298075"},{"taxonomy":"program","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/program?post=40802298075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}