Awards
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 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 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
Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2015
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