Judith Ruderman Has Been Named Winner of the 2017 Harry T. Moore Award

The Executive Committee of the D. H. Lawrence Society of North America (DHLSNA) has named Judith Ruderman, Visiting Professor in the English at Duke University and Paul Poplawski, Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Leicester as recipients of the 2017 Harry T. Moore Award for Lifetime Achievement in Lawrence Studies.  The Harry T. Moore Award was first awarded in 1984 to James Cowan and was last presented to Lindeth Vassey at the Gargnano Conference in 2014.

This award will be conferred at the 14th International Lawrence Conference, “London Calling,” July 3-8, 2017 at the New College of Humanities in Bedford Square and surrounding venues in London.  The conference is organized by the DHLSNA and the D.H. Lawrence Society (UK) and is authorized by Coordinating Committee for International Lawrence conferences.

The committee recognized Ruderman’s life-long engagement with important contributions to Lawrence studies, especially books on Lawrence’s works including Race and Identity in D. H. Lawrence:  Indians, Gypsies, and Jews published in 2014.  This work was noted in her nomination as asking “difficult, unsettling questions that Lawrence scholars almost uniformly choose not to ask.  It pulls no punches without being in any way polemical.  Race and Identity in D. H. Lawrence is also the most impressively researched and documented Lawrence study in recent memory.  It is truly a book that will make a difference.” 

The 2017 Harry T. Moore Award for Lifetime Achievement in Lawrence Studies also recognizes the significance of Ruderman’s (1984) book D.H. Lawrence and the Devouring Mother:  The Search for a Patriarchal Ideal of Leadership and articles on Lawrence’s The Fox.