Joseph Conrad
He has also pursued a parallel career as a Conrad scholar and editor with three monographs on Joseph Conrad: "Joseph Conrad: Betrayal and Identity" (1992), "Cross-Cultural Encounters in Joseph Conrad's Malay Fiction" (2000) and "Conrad's Secrets" (2013). "Conrad's Secrets" received the first-place prize for the Adam Gillon Award (2015) from the Joseph Conrad Society of America for the best recent work on Joseph Conrad. In 2017, he received the Ian P. Watt Award from the Joseph Conrad Society of America for excellence in Conrad studies. Previous recipients of this life-long achievement award include Norman Sherry and J. Hillis Miller. He has subsequently been awarded the third-place prize for the Adam Gillon Award (2018) for the collection of essays, "Conrad and Language" (Edinburgh U. P. 2016), which he co-edited with Katherine Isobel Baxter.