Awards

Longlisted for the REFORMA National Book Award:

Through Fences, written by Frederick Luis Aldama and illustrated by Oscar Garza

Nominated for the Bouchercon New Orleans 2025 Anthony Awards, Best Critical/Non-Fiction:

On Edge: Gender and Genre in the Work of Shirley Jackson, Patricia Highsmith, and Leigh Brackett by Ashley Lawson

Shortlisted for the 2025 Comics Studies Society Charles Hatfield Book Prize:

Petrochemical Fantasies: The Art and Energy of American Comics by Daniel Worden

Shortlisted for the 2025 Comics Studies Society Edited Book Prize:

Drawing (in) the Feminine: Bande Dessinée and Women, edited by Margaret C. Flinn

2025 Will Eisner Comic Industry Award Nominees

Best Academic/Scholarly Work:
Drawing (in) the Feminine: Bande Dessinée and Women, edited by Margaret C. Flinn

Petrochemical Fantasies: The Art and Energy of American Comics by Daniel Worden

Best Comics-Related Periodical/Journalism: INKS: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society, edited by Susan Kirtley

Honor Book, 2025 Children’s Literature Association Book Award:

Growing Up Graphic: The Comics of Children in Crisis by Alison Halsall

Winner, 2025 College Language Association Book Award:

Pitfalls of Prestige: Black Women and Literary Recognition by Laura Elizabeth Vrana

Honorable Mention, Popular Culture Association Emily Toth Award For Best Single Work In Women’s Studies:

On Edge: Gender and Genre in the Work of Shirley Jackson, Patricia Highsmith, and Leigh Brackett by Ashley Lawson

Winner, 2025 Society of Midland Authors Award for Adult Fiction:

The Registry of Forgotten Objects: Stories by Miles Harvey

Winner, 2025 Sonya Rudikoff Award for the Best First Book in Victorian Studies from the Northeast Victorian Studies Association:

The Necromantics: Reanimation, the Historical Imagination, and Victorian British and Irish Literature by Renée Fox

Finalist, California Book Award in Poetry:

Softly Undercover by Hanae Jonas

Honor Winner, Jean Flynn Award for Best Young Adult Book from the Texas Institute of Letters:

Through Fences, written by Frederick Luis Aldama and illustrated by Oscar Garza

Winner, 2025 Texas Association of Chicanos in Higher Education Outstanding Book Award, Fiction Category:

Through Fences, written by Frederick Luis Aldama and illustrated by Oscar Garza

Honorable Mention, 2025 Association for Asian American Studies Book Award, Literary Studies category:

Asian American Players: Masculinity, Literature, and the Anxieties of War by Audrey Wu Clark

Finalist, 2025 Oregon Book Awards, Sarah Winnemucca Award For Creative Nonfiction:

Night Mother: A Personal and Cultural History of The Exorcist by Marlena Williams

Nominated for the Mystery Writers of America’s 2025 Edgar Awards, Best Critical/Biographical:

On Edge: Gender and Genre in the Work of Shirley Jackson, Patricia Highsmith, and Leigh Brackett by Ashley Lawson

Longlisted for the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award in Autobiography:

Women Surrounded by Water: A Memoir by Patricia Coral

Honorable Mention, 2024 MLA Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Middle Eastern Studies:

Muslim Comics and Warscape Witnessing by Esra Mirze Santesso

2024 Choice Outstanding Academic Title:

Lost Literacies: Experiments in the Nineteenth-Century US Comic Strip by Alex Beringer

Longlisted, 2024 PEN America Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay:

Twenty Square Feet of Skin by Megan Baxter

Honorable Mention, 2024 NCA Public Address Division’s Marie Hochmuth Nichols Award:

Nuclear Decolonization: Indigenous Resistance to High-Level Nuclear Waste Siting by Danielle Endres

Finalist, 2024 Housatonic Book Award, Nonfiction:

The Hunger Book: A Memoir from Communist Poland by Agata Izabela Brewer

Winner, 2023 North American Victorian Studies Association First Book Prize:

The Feeling of Letting Die: Necroeconomics and Victorian Fiction by Jennifer MacLure

Honorable Mention, 2023 North American Victorian Studies Association First Book Prize:

The Necromantics: Reanimation, the Historical Imagination, and Victorian British and Irish Literature by Renée Fox

Winner, 2023 Writers’ League of Texas Book Award for Poetry:

SEX DEPRESSION ANIMALS: Poems by Mag Gabbert

Honorable Mention, Alma Flor Ada Best Latino Focused Children’s Picture Book Award from the International Latino Book Awards:

Las aventuras de Chupacabra Charlie by Frederick Luis Aldama, illustrated by Chris Escobar

Finalist, 2024 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing, Nonfiction Category:

I Would Meet You Anywhere: A Memoir by Susan Kiyo Ito

Honorable Mention, 2024 American Council for Irish Studies Donald Murphy Prize for Distinguished First Book:

The Necromantics: Reanimation, the Historical Imagination, and Victorian British and Irish Literature by Renée Fox

Winner, 2024 Children’s Literature Association Book Award:

Monstrous Youth: Transgressing the Boundaries of Childhood in the United States by Sara Austin

Winner, 2024 RSA Book Award:

Constellating Home: Trans and Queer Asian American Rhetorics by V. Jo Hsu

Runner-Up, 2023 Victorian Popular Fiction Association First Book Prize:

Pregnancy in the Victorian Novel by Livia Arndal Woods

Shortlisted for the 2024 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing, Nonfiction Category, and the 2024 Indiana Authors Awards, Debut Category:

The Hunger Book: A Memoir from Communist Poland by Agata Izabela Brewer

Winner, 2024 Winifred Bryan Horner Outstanding Book Award:

Constellating Home: Trans and Queer Asian American Rhetorics by V. Jo Hsu

Winner, 2024 Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize:

Birding While Indian: A Mixed-Blood Memoir by Thomas C. Gannon

Winner, BASEES George Blazyca Award in East European Studies:

Comics and Nation: Power, Pop Culture, and Political Transformation in Poland by Ewa Stańczyk

Finalist, American Academy of Religion’s Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion, Constructive-Reflexive Studies:

The Dreamer and the Dream: Afrofuturism and Black Religious Thought by Roger A. Sneed

Finalist, 2023 ASTR Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theatre History:

The Healing Stage: Black Women, Incarceration, and the Art of Transformation by Lisa Biggs

Finalist, 2023 National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography:

I Would Meet You Anywhere: A Memoir by Susan Kiyo Ito

Winner, Innovations in Community Writing Book Award from the Conference on Community Writing:

Constellating Home: Trans and Queer Asian American Rhetorics by V. Jo Hsu

Winner, 2023 ASTR Errol Hill Award:

The Healing Stage: Black Women, Incarceration, and the Art of Transformation by Lisa Biggs

Winner, 2023 NCA Diamond Anniversary Book Award:

Constellating Home: Trans and Queer Asian American Rhetorics by V. Jo Hsu

Winner, 2023 NCA Ethnography Division’s Best Book Award:

Everyday Dirty Work: Invisibility, Communication, and Immigrant Labor by Wilfredo Alvarez

Winner, 2023 NCA Lilla A. Heston Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Interpretation and Performance Studies:

The Healing Stage: Black Women, Incarceration, and the Art of Transformation by Lisa Biggs

Winner, 2023 Comics Studies Society Charles Hatfield Book Prize:

Comics and Nation: Power, Pop Culture, and Political Transformation in Poland by Ewa Stańczyk

Honorable Mention, 2023 Comics Studies Society Charles Hatfield Book Prize:

How Comics Travel: Publication, Translation, Radical Literacies by Katherine Kelp-Stebbins

Winner, 2023 Comics Studies Society Edited Collection Prize:

Beyond the Icon: Asian American Graphic Narratives by Eleanor Ty

2023 Will Eisner Comic Industry Award Nominees

Best Comics-Related Book: Resurrection: Comics in Post-Soviet Russia by José Alaniz

Best Academic/Scholarly Work: How Comics Travel: Publication, Translation, Radical Literacies by Katherine Kelp-Stebbins

Winner, 2023 RSA Book Award:

American Magnitude: Hemispheric Vision and Public Feeling in the United States by Christa J. Olson

Winner, 2023 RSA Fellows’ Early Career Award:

V. Jo Hsu, author of Constellating Home: Trans and Queer Asian American Rhetorics

Honor book, 2023 Black Caucus of the American Library Association (BCALA) literary awards, poetry category:

Claim Tickets for Stolen People by Quintin Collins

Finalist, 2022 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award:

a more perfect Union by Teri Ellen Cross Davis

Winner, 2022 Alison Piepmeier Prize from the National Women’s Studies Association:

The Political Economy of Stigma: HIV, Memoir, Medicine, and Crip Positionalities by Ally Day

Winner, 2022 New Mexico-Arizona Book Award, Autobiography/Memoir category:

Finding Querencia: Essays from In-Between By Harrison Candelaria Fletcher

Finalist, 2022 World Fantasy Awards;
Finalist, 2022 Utopia Awards;
Finalist, 2022 Ignyte Awards:

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

finalist for the 2022 LAMBDA literary award in bisexual nonfiction

Dark Tourist: Essays by Hasanthika Sirisena

Finalist for the 2022 ASLE Book Award for Creative Writing

Sign Here If You Exist and Other Essays by Jill Sisson Quinn

Finalist, 2020 National Book Award in Nonfiction

How to Make a Slave and Other Essays by Jerald Walker

Winner, 2021 Massachusetts Book Award in Nonfiction

How to Make a Slave and Other Essays by Jerald Walker

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, 2022 Comic Studies Society Charles Hatfield Award for Best Monograph

Typical Girls: The Rhetoric of Womanhood in Comic Strips by Susan E. Kirtley

Winner, 2022 Marie Hochmuth Nichols Award from the National Communication Association

American Magnitude: Hemispheric Vision and Public Feeling in the United States by Christa J. Olson

Winner, BGSU Center for Archival Collections’ 2021 Local History Publication Award—Book Category, Professional Division:

A History of Hate in Ohio: Then and Now by Michael E. Brooks and Bob Fitrakis

Bronze medalist in the autobiography and memoir category, 2021 Foreword Reviews INDIES Awards:

Supremely Tiny Acts: A Memoir of a Day by Sonya Huber

Longlisted, 2021 PEN America Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay:

Like Love by Michele Morano

Winner, 2021 Perkins Prize (International Society for the Study of Narrative)

We-Narratives: Collective Storytelling in Contemporary Fiction by Natalya Bekhta

Winner, 2021 Northeast Popular Culture Association's Peter C. Rollins Book Prize

Diverse Futures: Science Fiction and Authors of Color by Joy Sanchez-Taylor

Winner, 2021 Society for the Study of American Women Writers Book Award

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

Winner, 2021 Housatonic Book Award

Just an Ordinary Woman Breathing by Julie Marie Wade

2021 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Titles

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

Apocalypse Man: The Death Drive and the Rhetoric of White Masculine Victimhood by Casey Ryan Kelly

Literary Afrofuturism in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Isiah Lavender III and Lisa Yaszek

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

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

Finalist, 2021 MLA Prize for Independent Scholars

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

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 by 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 by Suzanne Keen

Annual Lambda Literary Award Finalist 2014

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

Finalist of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award 2013

Blood Prism by Edward Haworth Hoeppner

Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2012

Narrative Theory: Core Concepts and Critical Debates by 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 by Stuart Goldberg

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

International Gothic Association's Allan Lloyd Smith Memorial Prize 2010

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

Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2010

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

Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2009

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

The Age of Eclecticism: Literature and Culture in Britain, 1815–1885 by 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 by Paula Marie Seniors

Samuel and Ronnie Heyman Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Publication 2008

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

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

Nursing and the Privilege of Prescription, 1893–2000 by 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 by 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 by Sophia Andres

Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2006

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

American Journal of Nursing 2005 Most Valuable books of the Year

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

Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2005

Elusive Childhood: Impossible Representations in Modern Fiction by 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 by Tom Olson and Eileen Walsh

A Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2003

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

Suburban Steel: The Magnificent Failure of the Lustron Corporation, 1945–1951 by 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 by Elizabeth Langland

Predicting Politics by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita

2001 National Book Critics Circle award for poetry

Saving Lives: Poems by Albert Goldbarth

A Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2001

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

Ordinary Pleasures: Couples, Conversation, and Comedy by Kay Young