...Jesse Zuba The proliferation of first book prizes for poetry reflects the increasingly professionalized academic culture in which poetry was published, written, and read during the 1950s and 1960s. This change threatened the validity of the poetic vocation by formalizing the career and thus opening...

... in global care networks. It creates a crisis of care on multiple levels—the immediate, the dispersed, and the systemic—and it is exceedingly difficult to keep them all in focus. Although Richard Powers’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, The Overstory (2018), is not about illness or pandemic, it can illuminate...

..., is given in recognition of a significant contribution to the study of American literature. Houston Baker is the Susan Fox Beischer and George D. Beischer Arts & Sciences Professor of English and Professor of African and African American Studies at Duke University. 2003 Norman Foerster Prize...

... © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Announcements 2009 Don D. Walker Prize Hsuan L. Hsu’s essay “Vagrancy and Comparative Racialization in Huckleberry Finn and ‘Three Vagabonds of Trinidad’” (December 2009, 687–717) received the 2009 Don D. Walker Prize, awarded annually...

... © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Announcements Leon Edel Prize The Leon Edel Prize is awarded annually for the best essay on Henry James by a beginning scholar. The prize carries with it an award of $150, and the prize-winning essay will be published in the Henry James Review...

... 2006 Announcement Henry James Review: Leon Edel Prize The Henry James Review is accepting applications for the Leon Edel Prize, awarded annually for the best essay on Henry James by a beginning scholar. The competition is open to applicants who have not held a full-time academic...

...- can Literature, is given in recognition of a significant contribution to the study of American literature. 2002 Norman Foerster Prize The Norman Foerster Prize for the best article published in American...

... © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 Announcements 2013 Don D. Walker Prize Kay Yandell’s essay “The Moccasin Telegraph: Sign-Talk Autobiography and Pretty-Shield, Medicine Woman of the Crows” (American Literature 84:3, 533–61), received the 2013 Don D. Walker Prize, awarded...

...; [email protected]) or Kim Cook (440–964–4237; cook@ ashtabula.kent.edu); the conference Web site is httpwww.ashtabula.kent. edu (select ‘‘Literary Conference Call for Submissions: New MLA Book Prize in Black American Literatures and Cultures The Committee on Honors and Awards...

... 2007 Announcements 2006 Norman Foerster Prizes The annual Norman Foerster Prize for the best essay published in American Literature in 2006 was awarded by the American Literature Section of the MLA to Jeff Allred for “From Eye to We: Richard Wright’s 12 Million Black Voices...

... of the Modern Lan- guage Association in recognition of a significant contribution to the field. 2008 Norman Foerster Prizes The 2008 Norman Foerster Prize for the best essay published in American Lit- erature was awarded by the American Literature section of the MLA to Nancy Glazener, University...

... for the founding editor of American Literature, is given by the American Literature Section of the Mod- ern Language Association in recognition of a significant contribution to the field. 2011 Norman Foerster Prize The annual Norman Foerster Prize for the best essay published in American Literature...

... © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 Announcement 2011 Hennig Cohen Prize Cody Marrs was awarded the Hennig Cohen Prize for his essay “A Wayward Art: Battle-­Pieces and Melville’s Poetic Turn” (March 2010, 91–119). The prize is awarded annually by the Melville Society...

... © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Announcement 2014 Don D. Walker Prize Jayson Gonzales Sae-Saue’s essay “Aztlán’s Asians: Forging and Forgetting Cross-Racial Relations in the Chicana/o Literary Imagination” (American Lit- erature 85:3, 563–89), received the 2014 Don D. Walker...

... the value of African American culture today, as it becomes increasingly mar- ketized. Hill chronicles the relationship between African American writers and the expectations of literary prize committees. He explains why blacks received more major literary awards in the seventeen years between 1977...

... 2004 Announcements Nineteenth Century Studies Association Article Prize The Nineteenth Century Studies Association (NCSA) is accepting applica- tions for the annual NCSA Article Prize, awarded in recognition of excellence in scholarly studies on subjects from any discipline focusing...

... © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 Announcements 2008 Don D. Walker Prize Mark Rifkin’s essay “Documenting Tradition: Territoriality and Textuality in Black Hawk’s Narrative” (December 2008, 677–705) received the 2008 Don D. Walker Prize, awarded annually by the Don D. Walker...

... Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 Jessica Hurley’s essay “Impossible Futures: Fictions of Risk in the Longue Durée ” ( American Literature , 89:4, 761–89) received the 2017 Don D. Walker Prize, awarded annually by the Don D. Walker Prize Committee and the Western...

... African American writers and the expectations of literary prize committees. He explains why blacks received more major literary awards in the seventeen years between 1977 and 1993 than in any other period of equal length. Bookended by Toni Morrison’s Song of Solo- mon, which won the National Book...

... by the American Literature Section of the Modern Language Asso- ciation in recognition of a significant contribution to the study of American literature. 2005 Norman Foerster Prize The annual Norman Foerster Prize for the best essay published in American Literature in 2005 was awarded by the American...