Dr Stephen Cheeke, Senior Lecturer in English, has been awarded the Keats-Shelley Association of America’s 2007 essay prize.

Dr Cheeke’s essay, "'What So Many Have Told, Who Would Tell Again?': Romanticism and the Commonplaces of Rome," appeared in the journal European Romantic Review in December 2006.

The prize committee commends the essay for ‘its wide-ranging, evocative exploration of the discursive and cognitive pressures exerted by Rome in the early nineteenth century as Europe's classic site of the double face of the commonplace: at once the worn cliché and the common ground of authentic culture. Bringing together various genres (eg poetry, travelogue, antiquarianism, tourist guides), the essay brings into fresh and sharp focus the cosmopolitan dimension of Romanticism.’