Announcing the Winner of the 2025 Siegel/McDaniel Prize

The Philip Roth Society is excited to announce that Annesley Anderson has been awarded the 2025 Siegel/McDaniel Prize for her essay "Parables of Modern Belief in Philip Roth and Graham Greene."

Annesley Anderson is a teaching fellow and PhD student in English at The Catholic University of America. She received her Master's in English from Boston College. Her research focuses on religion in literary modernism and twentieth-century fiction, and her work has appeared in Twentieth-Century Literature and Christianity & Literature.

Annesley will work with the editors of Philip Roth Studies with a view to publishing her work in the journal. This award is given in honor of the work of Ben Siegel and John McDaniel, two of the earliest and most influential Roth scholars in the history of American letters. 

Annesley Anderson

Ben Siegel

John McDaniel