Citation for Barbara Cantalupo (Lifetime Achievement Award)

Barbara Cantalupo has had a long and distinguished career as a Poe scholar. She founded The Edgar Allan Poe Review in 2000, transforming an eight-page newsletter into a world-class scholarly journal dedicated to the analysis and appreciation of Poe. She continued to edit the journal, with one break, for twenty-five years. She initiated special sections that still endure: Heyward Ehrlich’s “Poe in Cyberspace,” Chris Semtner’s “Poe in Richmond,” and various authors’ “Critical Reassessments.” And she has conducted and published in the journal many valuable, illuminating interviews with Poe scholars. Furthermore, Barbara organized the Third International Edgar Allan Poe Conference: The Bicentennial in Philadelphia in 2009, later editing a collection of essays that emerged from the conference, Poe’s Pervasive Influence. And she co-organized the Fourth International Edgar Allan Poe Conference in New York City in 2015.Additionally, Barbara made many scholarly Poe presentations and wrote many scholarly Poe publications, including articles and book chapters and the field-defining volume Poe and the Visual Arts, for which the Poe Studies Association gave her the Patrick F. Quinn Award. She has repeatedly shown the vital importance of beauty in Poe’s life and his works. And throughout her career as a Poe scholar, she has built community—intangible, but itself a work of art. In view of her great contribution to Poe scholarship and the community of Poe scholars in the United States and abroad, the Poe Studies Association, with pride and gratitude, presents Barbara Cantalupo with its Lifetime Achievement Award.Congratulations, Barbara!