The Charles Waddell Chesnutt Association awarded Susanna Ashton and Bill Hardwig the 2018 Sylvia Lyons Render Award “in recognition of outstanding scholarship on the life and works of Charles Waddell Chesnutt.”  Ashton and Hardwig received the award for their work editing “Approaches to Teaching the Works of Charles W. Chesnutt” (MLA Press, 2017).