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Finalist, 2020 National Book Award in Nonfiction

How to Make a Slave and Other Essays by Jerald Walker

Finalist, 2022 World Fantasy Awards

Speculative Fiction for Dreamers: A Latinx Anthology Edited by Alex Hernandez, Matthew David Goodwin, and Sarah Rafael García

Winner of the 2022 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Prize for Best fiction.

The Age of Discovery and Other Stories by Becky Hagenston

Winner, 2021 Association for the Rhetoric of Science, Technology, and Medicine Book Award

Zoetropes and the Politics of Humanhood by Allison L. Rowland

Finalist, 2021 Association for the Rhetoric of Science, Technology, and Medicine Book Award

Vaccine Rhetorics by Heidi Yoston Lawrence

Winner, 2021 Cultural Studies Association First Book Prize

Diagnosing Desire: Biopolitics and Femininity into the Twenty-First Century by Alyson K. Spurgas

Honorable Mention, 2021 CCCC Best Book in Technical or Scientific Communication

Vaccine Rhetorics by Heidi Yoston Lawrence

Finalist, 2021 Rhetoric Society of America Book of the Year Award

Zoetropes and the Politics of Humanhood by Allison L. Rowland

Winner, 2021 CCCC Outstanding Book Award

Finalist, 2021 MLA Prize for Independent Scholars

Migrating Fictions: Gender, Race, and Citizenship in U.S. Internal Displacements by Abigail G. H. Manzella

Inconvenient Strangers: Transnational Subjects and the Politics of Citizenship by Shui-Yin Sharon Yam

Finalist, 2021 Judy Grahn Award in Lesbian Nonfiction from the Publishing Triangle

Just an Ordinary Woman Breathing by Julie Marie Wade

2020 Margaret Wade Labarge Prize, Canadian Society of Medievalists

Death and the Pearl Maiden by David K. Coley

2020 Outstanding Book Award, Critical/Cultural Studies Division of the National Communications Association

Culturally Speaking: The Rhetoric of Voice and Identity in a Mediated Culture by Amanda Nell Edgar

2020 Will Eisner Comic Industry Award Nominees

Best Comics-Related Periodical/Journalism
Inks: The Journal of the Comic Studies Society

Best Academic/Scholarly Work
Producing Mass Entertainment: The Serial Life of the Yellow Kid by Christina Meyer

2020 Victorian Society in America Book Award

Hotel London by Barbara Black

2020 Council of Editors of Learned Journals Phoenix Award for Significant Editorial Achievement

Adoption & Culture Edited by Emily Hipchen

2019 Schwartz Prize, Federation of State Humanities Councils

Not Far from Me: Stories of Opioids and Ohio Edited by Daniel Skinner and Berkeley Franz

2019 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title

Reimagining the Middle Passage: Black Resistance in Literature, Television, and Song by Tara T. Greene

2019 MLA Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies

Shaming into Brown: Somatic Transactions of Race in Latina/o Literature by Stephanie Fetta

2019 Lambda Literary Award Winner

Out of Step by Anthony Moll

2019 Lambda Literary Award nominee

Apocalypse, Darling by Barrie Jean Borich

2019 Will Eisner Comic Industry Award Nominees

Best Academic/Scholarly Work
Between Pen and Pixel: Comics, Materiality, and the Book of the Future by Aaron Kashtan

The Goat-Getters: Jack Johnson, the Fight of the Century, and How a Bunch of Raucous Cartoonists Reinvented Comics by Eddie Campbell
Copublished with the Library of American Comics and IDW

2018 Will Eisner Comic Industry Award nominee

Best Academic/Scholarly Work
Ethics in the Gutter: Empathy and Historical Fiction in Comics by Kate Polak

2018 Choice Outstanding Academic title

Migrating Fictions; Gender, Race, and Citizenship in U.S. Internal Displacements by Abigail G. H. Manzella

2018 College Language Association Award for Creative Scholarship

James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, and the Rhetorics of Black Male Subjectivity by Aaron Ngozi Oforlea

2017 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards

Silver Winner, Biography Through a Long Absence: Words from My Father’s Wars by Joy Passanante

Honorable Mention, Biography A Mother’s Tale by Phillip Lopate

2017 Library Journal Best New Magazine

Inks: The Journal of the Comic Studies Society

2017 Lambda Classical Caucus's Rehak Award

Ancient Sex: New Essays
Edited by Ruby Blondell and Kirk Ormand

2017 Women's Classical Caucus Barbara McManus Award for Best Article

Ancient Sex: New Essays
Edited by Ruby Blondell and Kirk Ormand

2017 Choice Outstanding Academic Title

In Search of an Alternative Biopolitics: Anti-Bullfighting, Animality, and the Environment in Contemporary Spain
Katarzyna Olga Beilin

Honorable Mention for the ISSN 2015 Perkins Prize

Narrative Theory Unbound: Queer and Feminist Interventions
Edited by Robyn Warhol and Susan S. Lanser

2015 Choice Outstanding Academic Title

Narrative Theory Unbound: Queer and Feminist Interventions
Edited by Robyn Warhol and Susan S. Lanser

2015 Teaching Literature Book Award

From Abortion to Pederasty: Addressing Difficult Topics in the Classics Classroom
Edited by Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz and Fiona McHardy

Phi Beta Kappa Society Annual Book Awards 2015 Short List (Christian Gauss Award)

Thomas Hardy’s Brains: Psychology, Neurology, and Hardy’s Imagination
Suzanne Keen

Annual Lambda Literary Award Finalist 2014

The Queer Limit of Black Memory: Black Lesbian Literature and Irresolution
Matt Richardson

Finalist of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award 2013

Blood Prism
Edward Haworth Hoeppner

Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2012

Narrative Theory: Core Concepts and Critical Debates
David Herman, James Phelan, Peter J. Rabinowitz, Brian Richardson, and Robyn Warhol

Hemingway and the Black Renaissance
Edited by Gary Edward Holcomb and Charles Scruggs

After Testimony: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Holocaust Narrative for the Future
Edited by Jakob Lothe, Susan Rubin Suleiman, and James Phelan

Choice Outstanding Title for 2011

Mandelstam, Blok, and the Boundaries of Mythopoetic Symbolism
Stuart Goldberg

The Governance of Friendship: Law and Gender in the Decameron
Michael Sherberg

International Gothic Association's Allan Lloyd Smith Memorial Prize 2010

Gothic Riffs: Secularizing the Uncanny in the European Imaginary, 1780–1820
Diane Long Hoeveler

Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2010

Imagining Minds: The Neuro-Aesthetics of Austen, Eliot, and Hardy
Kay Young

Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2009

Paper Money Men: Commerce, Manhood, and the Sensational Public Sphere in Antebellum America
David Anthony

The Age of Eclecticism: Literature and Culture in Britain, 1815–1885
Christine Bolus-Reichert

Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Prize 2009
The Association of Black Women Historians

Beyond Lift Every Voice and Sing: The Culture of Uplift, Identity, and Politics in Black Musical Theater
Paula Marie Seniors

Samuel and Ronnie Heyman Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Publication 2008

The Crisis of Action in Nineteenth–Century English Literature
Stefanie Markovits

Lavinia Dock Award for Best Book 2007
American Association for the History of Nursing

Nursing and the Privilege of Prescription, 1893–2000
Arlene W. Keeling

Lavinia Dock Award for Best Book 2006
American Association for the History of Nursing

Unlikely Entrepreneurs: Catholic Sisters and the Hospital Marketplace, 1865–1925
Barbra Mann Wall

South Central Modern Language Association Book Award 2006

The Pre-Raphaelite Art of the Victorian Novel: Narrative Challenges to the Visual Gendered Boundaries
Sophia Andres

Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2006

Nurse-Midwifery: The Birth of a New American Profession
Laura E. Ettinger

American Journal of Nursing 2005 Most Valuable books of the Year

Dying to Be Beautiful: The Fight For Safe Cosmetics
Gwen Kay

Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2005

Elusive Childhood: Impossible Representations in Modern Fiction
Susan Honeyman

Lavinia Dock Award for Best Book 2004

Handling the Sick: The Women of St. Luke’s and the Nature of Nursing, 1892–1937
Tom Olson and Eileen Walsh

A Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2003

Roman Fever: Domesticity and Nationalism in Nineteenth–Century American Women’s Writing
Annamaria Formichella Elsden

Suburban Steel: The Magnificent Failure of the Lustron Corporation, 1945–1951
Douglas Knerr

The Margaret Atwood Society's 2003 "Best Book on Atwood's Work" Award

Margaret Atwood’s Textual Assassinations: Recent Poetry and Fiction
Edited by Sharon Rose Wilson

A Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2002

Telling Tales: Gender and Narrative Form in Victorian Literature and Culture
Elizabeth Langland

Predicting Politics
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita

2001 National Book Critics Circle award for poetry

Saving Lives: Poems
Albert Goldbarth

A Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2001

Animating the Letter: The Figurative Embodiment of Writing from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance
Laura Kendrick

Ordinary Pleasures: Couples, Conversation, and Comedy
Kay Young