Cat Lambert has received an Honorable Mention in the Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography Annual Essay Prize for her article, "The Ancient Entomological Bookworm," published in Arethusa 53 (2020: 1-24). Summing up her piece, the Essay Prize Committee wrote, "What kinds of readers are bookworms, anyway? Lambert marshals bibliographical, literary, and biological evidence, showing us how bookworms tunneled through books and how people used the bookworm as a metaphor in the ancient Mediterranean world. Through the bookworm, authors represented their anxieties about the survival of their writings and who was reading them, and how. Lambert offers us a cogent model for pursuing the social history of reading when material evidence is scant."
A full citation of the Essay Prize can be found here.
Cat Lambert