ACLA - Harry Levin and René Wellek Prizes


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		The Harry Levin and René Wellek Prizes, given in alternate years, are this country's most prestigious book awards in the discipline of comparative literature. Editions, collections of essays, and reference works are not eligible for these prizes. The winner will receive complimentary conference registration and a complimentary banquet ticket, as well as full reimbursement for travel expenses related to the annual meeting, to facilitate the recipient attending the 2011 conference In Vancouver at which the prize will be awarded. 2011 Harry Levin Prize Those books eligible for the Harry Levin Prize emphasize literary history or criticism as opposed to theory; in the spirit of comparative literature, they are engaged with more than one national literature or with issues of literary study in general. Editions and commentaries on texts are not normally considered for this prize. The 2011 Harry Levin Prize comprises books published in the triennium 2008-2010, and the award will be presented at the ACLA Annual Meeting in Vancouver in 2011. HOW TO NOMINATE A BOOK If you wish to nominate one or more titles for the 2011 Harry Levin Prize, please send a brief letter to that effect and a copy of the book to each member of the 2011 Harry Levin Prize Committee, including the ACLA Secretariat. The 2011 Harry Levin Prize Committee members are: Gail Finney (chair) Chair of German Department University of California 524 Sproul Hall One Shields Avenue Davis, CA 95616-8606 Dominique Jullien Director of French Graduate Studies University of California 5206 Phelps Hall Santa Barbara, CA 93106-4140 Rita Felski University of Virginia 219 Bryan Hall PO Box 400121 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4121 ACLA Secretariat University of Texas at Austin Program in Comparative Literature 1 University Station B5003 Austin, TX 78712-0196 The deadline for submission is September 15, 2010. The ACLA encourages the submission of titles as early as possible, as the committee usually receives a large number of submissions at the end of the year, and can devote proportionately less time to them than to those that arrive early. A selective approach to nominations is also recommended, in order that a few books of superior quality may stand out. 2010 René Wellek Prize The the René Wellek Prize recognizes an outstanding work in the field of literary and cultural theory. The 2012 René Wellek Prize comprises books published in the triennium 2009-2011, and the award will be presented at the ACLA Annual Meeting in 2012. Congratulations to the 2010 winner of the René Wellek Prize: Anne-Lise François. Open Secrets: The Literature of Uncounted Experience. Stanford: Stanford UP, 2007. (CITATION) Congratulations to the 2010 Special Mention of the René Wellek Prize: Barbara Johnson. Persons and Things. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2008. (CITATION) HOW TO NOMINATE A BOOK If you wish to nominate one or more titles for the 2012 René Wellek Prize, please send a brief letter to that effect and a copy of the book to each member of the 2012 René Wellek Prize Committee, including the ACLA Secretariat. The 2012 René Wellek Prize Committee members are: Jonathan Culler (chair) Chair of Romance Studies Cornell University 303 Morrill Hall Ithaca, NY 14853 Rebecca Walkowitz English Department Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey 510 George Street, Murray Hall, Room 042 New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1167 Marc Redfield English Department School of Arts & Humanities Claremont Graduate University 121 East Tenth Street Claremont, CA 91711 ACLA Secretariat University of Texas at Austin Program in Comparative Literature 1 University Station B5003 Austin, TX 78712-0196 The deadline for submission corresponds to the eligibility period and thus is December 31, 2011. The ACLA encourages the submission of titles as early as possible, as the committee usually receives a large number of submissions at the end of the year, and can devote proportionately less time to them than to those that arrive early. A selective approach to nominations is also recommended, in order that a few books of superior quality may stand out. Previous Levin Prize winners: 2009 Ross Hamilton. Accident: A Philosophical and Literary History. (Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2007) (CITATION) Adam Potkay. The Story of Joy: From the Bible to Late Romanticism. (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2007) (CITATION) 2007: Lois Parkinson Zamora. The Inordinate Eye: New World Baroque and Latin American Fiction. (Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2006) (CITATION) Honorable Mention: Wai Chee Dimock. Through Other Continents: American Literature Across Deep Time. (Princeton: Princeton UP, 2006) (CITATION) 2005: Seth Lerer, Error and The Academic Self: The Scholarly Imagination, Medieval To Modern (Columbia UP, 2002) (CITATION) 2003: Julie Stone Peters, Theatre of the Book, 1480-1880: Print, Text and Performance in Europe (Oxford UP, 2000) (CITATION) 2001: Leonard Barkan, Unearthing the Past: Archeology and Aesthetics in the Making of Renaissance Culture (Yale UP, 1999) (CITATION) 1999: Gauri Viswanathan, Outside the Fold: Conversion, Modernity, and Belief (Princeton UP, 1998) (CITATION) 1997: Paul Alpers, What Is Pastoral? (U of Chicago P, 1996) (CITATION) 1995: Marie-Hélène Huet, Monstrous Imagination (Harvard UP, 1993) (CITATION) 1993: J. Hillis Miller, Illustration (Harvard UP) 1990: Mary E. Wack, Lovesickness in the Middle Ages: The Viaticum and Its Commentaries (U of Pennsylvania P, 1990) (CITATION) 1987: Annabel Patterson, Pastoral and Ideology: Virgil to Valéry (U of California P, 1987) (CITATION) and David Hayman, Re-Forming the Narrative: Towards a Mechanics of Modernist Fiction (Cornell UP, 1987) (CITATION) 1985: Virgil Nemoianu, The Taming of Romanticism: European literature and the age of Biedermeier (Princeton UP, 1985) Previous René Wellek Prize winners: 2008: Joseph Slaughter, Human Rights, Inc.: The World Novel, Narrative Form, and International Law (Fordham UP, 2007) (CITATION) Honorable Mention: Natalie Melas, All the Difference in the World: Postcoloniality and the Ends of Comparison (Stanford UP, 2007) (CITATION) 2006: Peggy Kamuf, Book of Addresses (Stanford UP, 2005) (CITATION) 2004: Barrett Watten, The Constructivist Moment: From Material Text to Cultural Poetics (Wesleyan UP, 2003) (CITATION) Honorable Mentions: Margaret W. Ferguson, Dido's Daughters: Literacy, Gender and Empire in Early Modern England and France (U of Chicago P, 2003) (CITATION) and Eric L. Santner, On the Psychotheology of Everyday Life: Reflections on Freud and Rosenzweig (U of Chicago P, 2001) (CITATION) 2002: Rei Terada, Feeling in Theory: Emotion after the 'Death of the Subject' (Harvard UP, 2001) 2000: N. Katherine Hayles, How We Became Posthuman (U of Chicago P, 1998) 1998: Geoffrey H. Hartman, The Fateful Question of Culture (Columbia UP, 1997) (CITATION) 1996: Haun Saussy, The Problem of a Chinese Aesthetic (Stanford UP, 1993) (CITATION) and Gary Saul Morson, Narrative and Freedom: The Shadows of Time (Yale UP, 1994) (CITATION) 1994: John Guillory, Cultural Capital: The Problem of Literary Canon Formation (U of Chicago P, 1993) 1992: Umberto Eco, The Limits of Interpretation (Indiana UP, 1990) (CITATION) and Thomas G. Pavel, The Feud of Language: A History of Structuralist Thought (Basil Blackwell, 1989) (CITATION) 1988: Barbara A. Johnson, A World of Difference (Johns Hopkins UP, 1987) 1986: Suzanne Gearhart, The Open Boundary of History and Fiction (Princeton UP, 1985) (CITATION)


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11about \| annual meeting \| acla prizes \| graduate students \| acla resources

		levin and wellek \|\| aldridge \|\| bernheimer \|\| frenz \|\| presidential master's \|\| presidential undergraduate

		The Harry Levin and René Wellek Prizes, given in alternate years, are this country's most prestigious book awards in the discipline of comparative literature. Editions, collections of essays, and reference works are not eligible for these prizes. The winner will receive complimentary conference registration and a complimentary banquet ticket, as well as full reimbursement for travel expenses related to the annual meeting, to facilitate the recipient attending the 2011 conference In Vancouver at which the prize will be awarded. 2011 Harry Levin Prize Those books eligible for the Harry Levin Prize emphasize literary history or criticism as opposed to theory; in the spirit of comparative literature, they are engaged with more than one national literature or with issues of literary study in general. Editions and commentaries on texts are not normally considered for this prize. The 2011 Harry Levin Prize comprises books published in the triennium 2008-2010, and the award will be presented at the ACLA Annual Meeting in Vancouver in 2011. HOW TO NOMINATE A BOOK If you wish to nominate one or more titles for the 2011 Harry Levin Prize, please send a brief letter to that effect and a copy of the book to each member of the 2011 Harry Levin Prize Committee, including the ACLA Secretariat. The 2011 Harry Levin Prize Committee members are: Gail Finney (chair) Chair of German Department University of California 524 Sproul Hall One Shields Avenue Davis, CA 95616-8606 Dominique Jullien Director of French Graduate Studies University of California 5206 Phelps Hall Santa Barbara, CA 93106-4140 Rita Felski University of Virginia 219 Bryan Hall PO Box 400121 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4121 ACLA Secretariat University of Texas at Austin Program in Comparative Literature 1 University Station B5003 Austin, TX 78712-0196 The deadline for submission is September 15, 2010. The ACLA encourages the submission of titles as early as possible, as the committee usually receives a large number of submissions at the end of the year, and can devote proportionately less time to them than to those that arrive early. A selective approach to nominations is also recommended, in order that a few books of superior quality may stand out. 2010 René Wellek Prize The the René Wellek Prize recognizes an outstanding work in the field of literary and cultural theory. The 2012 René Wellek Prize comprises books published in the triennium 2009-2011, and the award will be presented at the ACLA Annual Meeting in 2012. Congratulations to the 2010 winner of the René Wellek Prize: Anne-Lise François. Open Secrets: The Literature of Uncounted Experience. Stanford: Stanford UP, 2007. (CITATION) Congratulations to the 2010 Special Mention of the René Wellek Prize: Barbara Johnson. Persons and Things. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2008. (CITATION) HOW TO NOMINATE A BOOK If you wish to nominate one or more titles for the 2012 René Wellek Prize, please send a brief letter to that effect and a copy of the book to each member of the 2012 René Wellek Prize Committee, including the ACLA Secretariat. The 2012 René Wellek Prize Committee members are: Jonathan Culler (chair) Chair of Romance Studies Cornell University 303 Morrill Hall Ithaca, NY 14853 Rebecca Walkowitz English Department Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey 510 George Street, Murray Hall, Room 042 New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1167 Marc Redfield English Department School of Arts & Humanities Claremont Graduate University 121 East Tenth Street Claremont, CA 91711 ACLA Secretariat University of Texas at Austin Program in Comparative Literature 1 University Station B5003 Austin, TX 78712-0196 The deadline for submission corresponds to the eligibility period and thus is December 31, 2011. The ACLA encourages the submission of titles as early as possible, as the committee usually receives a large number of submissions at the end of the year, and can devote proportionately less time to them than to those that arrive early. A selective approach to nominations is also recommended, in order that a few books of superior quality may stand out. Previous Levin Prize winners: 2009 Ross Hamilton. Accident: A Philosophical and Literary History. (Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2007) (CITATION) Adam Potkay. The Story of Joy: From the Bible to Late Romanticism. (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2007) (CITATION) 2007: Lois Parkinson Zamora. The Inordinate Eye: New World Baroque and Latin American Fiction. (Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2006) (CITATION) Honorable Mention: Wai Chee Dimock. Through Other Continents: American Literature Across Deep Time. (Princeton: Princeton UP, 2006) (CITATION) 2005: Seth Lerer, Error and The Academic Self: The Scholarly Imagination, Medieval To Modern (Columbia UP, 2002) (CITATION) 2003: Julie Stone Peters, Theatre of the Book, 1480-1880: Print, Text and Performance in Europe (Oxford UP, 2000) (CITATION) 2001: Leonard Barkan, Unearthing the Past: Archeology and Aesthetics in the Making of Renaissance Culture (Yale UP, 1999) (CITATION) 1999: Gauri Viswanathan, Outside the Fold: Conversion, Modernity, and Belief (Princeton UP, 1998) (CITATION) 1997: Paul Alpers, What Is Pastoral? (U of Chicago P, 1996) (CITATION) 1995: Marie-Hélène Huet, Monstrous Imagination (Harvard UP, 1993) (CITATION) 1993: J. Hillis Miller, Illustration (Harvard UP) 1990: Mary E. Wack, Lovesickness in the Middle Ages: The Viaticum and Its Commentaries (U of Pennsylvania P, 1990) (CITATION) 1987: Annabel Patterson, Pastoral and Ideology: Virgil to Valéry (U of California P, 1987) (CITATION) and David Hayman, Re-Forming the Narrative: Towards a Mechanics of Modernist Fiction (Cornell UP, 1987) (CITATION) 1985: Virgil Nemoianu, The Taming of Romanticism: European literature and the age of Biedermeier (Princeton UP, 1985) Previous René Wellek Prize winners: 2008: Joseph Slaughter, Human Rights, Inc.: The World Novel, Narrative Form, and International Law (Fordham UP, 2007) (CITATION) Honorable Mention: Natalie Melas, All the Difference in the World: Postcoloniality and the Ends of Comparison (Stanford UP, 2007) (CITATION) 2006: Peggy Kamuf, Book of Addresses (Stanford UP, 2005) (CITATION) 2004: Barrett Watten, The Constructivist Moment: From Material Text to Cultural Poetics (Wesleyan UP, 2003) (CITATION) Honorable Mentions: Margaret W. Ferguson, Dido's Daughters: Literacy, Gender and Empire in Early Modern England and France (U of Chicago P, 2003) (CITATION) and Eric L. Santner, On the Psychotheology of Everyday Life: Reflections on Freud and Rosenzweig (U of Chicago P, 2001) (CITATION) 2002: Rei Terada, Feeling in Theory: Emotion after the 'Death of the Subject' (Harvard UP, 2001) 2000: N. Katherine Hayles, How We Became Posthuman (U of Chicago P, 1998) 1998: Geoffrey H. Hartman, The Fateful Question of Culture (Columbia UP, 1997) (CITATION) 1996: Haun Saussy, The Problem of a Chinese Aesthetic (Stanford UP, 1993) (CITATION) and Gary Saul Morson, Narrative and Freedom: The Shadows of Time (Yale UP, 1994) (CITATION) 1994: John Guillory, Cultural Capital: The Problem of Literary Canon Formation (U of Chicago P, 1993) 1992: Umberto Eco, The Limits of Interpretation (Indiana UP, 1990) (CITATION) and Thomas G. Pavel, The Feud of Language: A History of Structuralist Thought (Basil Blackwell, 1989) (CITATION) 1988: Barbara A. Johnson, A World of Difference (Johns Hopkins UP, 1987) 1986: Suzanne Gearhart, The Open Boundary of History and Fiction (Princeton UP, 1985) (CITATION)


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