Awards
Winner, 2023 Comics Studies Society Charles Hatfield Book Prize:
Comics and Nation: Power, Pop Culture, and Political Transformation in Poland by Ewa StańczykHonorable Mention, 2023 Comics Studies Society Charles Hatfield Book Prize:
How Comics Travel: Publication, Translation, Radical Literacies by Katherine Kelp-StebbinsWinner, 2023 Comics Studies Society Edited Collection Prize:
Beyond the Icon: Asian American Graphic Narratives by Eleanor Ty2023 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-StebbinsWinner, 2023 RSA Book Award:
American Magnitude: Hemispheric Vision and Public Feeling in the United States by Christa J. OlsonWinner, 2023 RSA Fellows’ Early Career Award:
V. Jo Hsu, author of Constellating Home: Trans and Queer Asian American RhetoricsHonor book, 2023 Black Caucus of the American Library Association (BCALA) literary awards, poetry category:
Claim Tickets for Stolen People by Quintin CollinsWinner, 2022 Alison Piepmeier Prize from the National Women’s Studies Association:
The Political Economy of Stigma: HIV, Memoir, Medicine, and Crip Positionalities by Ally DayWinner, 2022 New Mexico-Arizona Book Award, Autobiography/Memoir category:
Finding Querencia: Essays from In-Between By Harrison Candelaria FletcherFinalist, 2022 World Fantasy Awards, and finalist, 2022 Utopia Awards
Speculative Fiction for Dreamers: A Latinx Anthology Edited by Alex Hernandez, Matthew David Goodwin, and Sarah Rafael Garcíafinalist 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 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 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, 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
Migrating Fictions: Gender, Race, and Citizenship in U.S. Internal Displacements by Abigail G. H. Manzella
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 Ormand2017 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