James Russell Lowell Prize

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The James Russell Lowell Prize is an annual prize given to an outstanding scholarly book by the Modern Language Association.

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Background

The prize is presented for a book that is an outstanding literary or linguistic study, a critical edition of an important work, or a critical biography. [1]

Eligibility

The Prize is open only to members of the Association. [2]

Notable winners

Past winners of the prize include: [3]

2021 - Kevin Quashie, Brown University, for Black Aliveness; or, a Poetics of Being

2020 - Peter Boxall, University of Sussex, for The Prosthetic Imagination: A History of the Novel as Artificial Life

2019 - Lynn Festa, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, for Fiction without Humanity: Person, Animal, Thing in Early Enlightenment Literature and Culture

2018 - Jonathan P. Eburne, Pennsylvania State University, for Outsider Theory: Intellectual Histories of Unorthodox Ideas

2017 - Deborah L. Nelson, University of Chicago, for Tough Enough: Arbus, Arendt, Didion, McCarthy, Sontag, Weil

2016 - Branka Arsić, Columbia University, for Bird Relics: Grief and Vitalism in Thoreau

2015 - Caroline Levine, Cornell University, for Forms: Whole, Rhythm, Hierarchy, Network

2014 - Anna Brickhouse, University of Virginia, for The Unsettlement of America: Translation, Interpretation, and the Story of Don Luis de Velasco, 1560–1945

2013 - David Rosen, Trinity College, and Aaron Santesso, Georgia Institute of Technology, for The Watchman in Pieces: Surveillance, Literature, and Liberal Personhood

2012 - Sianne Ngai, Stanford University, for Our Aesthetic Categories: Zany, Cute, Interesting

2011 - Simon Gikandi, Princeton University, for Slavery and the Culture of Taste (Princeton Univ. Press, 2011) Stephen Greenblatt, Harvard University, for The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (W. W. Norton, 2011)

2010 - Phillip H. Round, University of Iowa, for Removable Type: Histories of the Book in Indian Country, 1663–1880

2009 - Laura Dassow Walls, University of South Carolina, for The Passage to Cosmos: Alexander von Humboldt and the Shaping of America

2008 - Isobel Armstrong, University of London, for Victorian Glassworlds: Glass Culture and the Imagination 1830–1880

2007 - Laura Marcus, University of Edinburgh, for The Tenth Muse: Writing about Cinema in the Modernist Period

2006 - Martin Puchner, Columbia University, for Poetry of the Revolution: Marx, Manifestos, and the Avant-Gardes

2005 - Paula R. Backscheider, Auburn University, for Eighteenth-Century Women Poets and Their Poetry: Inventing Agency, Inventing Genre W. J. T. Mitchell, University of Chicago, for What Do Pictures Want?: The Lives and Loves of Images

2004 - Diana Fuss, Princeton University, for The Sense of an Interior: Four Writers and the Rooms That Shaped Them

2003 - Giancarlo Maiorino, Indiana University, Bloomington, for At the Margins of the Renaissance: Lazarillo de Tormes and the Picaresque Art of Survival

1979 - Barbara Kiefer Lewalski [4]

1972 - Theodore Ziolkowski

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References

  1. https://www.mla.org/Resources/Career/MLA-Honors-and-Awards/Submissions-and-Nominations/Competitions-for-MLA-Publication-Awards/Annual-Prizes-with-Competitions-in-2017/James-Russell-Lowell-Prize [ dead link ]
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