Competitions for MLA Publication Awards

Annual Prizes with Competitions in 2008 William Riley Parker Prize - Definition: For an outstanding article in PMLA. Eligibility: Articles published in the October 2007, January 2008, March 2008, and May 2008 issues of PMLA. Commissioned articles and special features are not eligible for this award. Authors must be current members of the MLA. James Russell Lowell Prize - Deadline: 1 March 2008. Definition: For an outstanding literary or linguistic study, a critical edition of an important work, or a critical biography. Open to studies dealing with literary theory, media, cultural history, or interdisciplinary topics. Eligibility: Books published in 2007; authors must be current members of the MLA. Copies required: Six. MLA Prize for a First Book - Deadline: 1 April 2008. Definition: Same as for James Russell Lowell Prize. Eligibility: Book must have been published in 2007 as the first book-length publication of a current member of the MLA. Copies required: Six. MLA Prize for Independent Scholars - Deadline: 1 May 2008. Definition: For a scholarly book in the field of English or other modern languages and literatures. Eligibility: Books published in 2007. At the time of publication of the book, author must not be enrolled in a program leading to an academic degree or hold a tenured, tenure-accruing, or tenure-track position in postsecondary education. Authors or publishers must request an application form from the MLA. Authors need not be members of the MLA. Copies required: Six. Return completed application with copies. Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize - Deadline: 1 May 2008. Definition: For an outstanding book published in English in the field of Latin American and Spanish literatures and cultures. Competing books should be broadly interpretive works that enhance understanding of the interrelations among literature, the other arts, and society. Eligibility: Books published in 2007; authors need not be members of the MLA. Copies required: Six. Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies - Deadline: 1 May 2008. Definition: For an outstanding scholarly work in comparative literary studies involving at least two literatures. Eligibility: Books published in 2007; authors must be current members of the MLA. Copies required: Four. Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for French and Francophone Studies - Deadline: 1 May 2008. Definition: For an outstanding scholarly work in French or francophone linguistic or literary studies. Eligibility: Books published in 2007; authors must be current members of the MLA. Copies required: Four. Kenneth W. Mildenberger Prize - Deadline: 1 May 2008. Definition: For a work in the fields of language, culture, literacy, or literature with strong application to the teaching of languages other than English. Eligibility: Books published in 2007; authors need not be members of the MLA. Copies required: Four. Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize - Deadline: 1 May 2008. Definition: For a work in the fields of language, culture, literacy, or literature with strong application to the teaching of English. Eligibility: Books published in 2007; authors need not be members of the MLA. Copies required: Four. Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Publication Award for a Manuscript in Italian Literary Studies - Deadline: 1 August 2007. Definition: For an outstanding manuscript dealing with any aspect of the languages and literatures of Italy. Eligibility: Manuscripts approved or ready for publication before award deadline; authors must be current members of the MLA residing in the United States or Canada. Copies required: Four, plus contact and biographical information. William Sanders Scarborough Prize - Deadline: 1 May 2008. Definition: For an outstanding scholarly study of black American literature or culture. Eligibility: Books published in 2007; authors need not be members of the MLA. Copies required: Four. MLA Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies - Deadline: 1 May 2008. Definition: For an outstanding scholarly study in any language of United States Latina and Latino or Chicana and Chicano literature or culture. Eligibility: Books published in 2007; authors must be current members of the MLA. Copies required: Four. Biennial Prizes in 2008 MLA Prize for a Distinguished Bibliography - Deadline: 1 May 2008. Definition: For an outstanding enumerative or descriptive bibliography. Eligibility: At least one volume must have been published in 2006 or 2007. Editors need not be members of the MLA. Copies required: Four. Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Germanic Languages and Literatures - Deadline: 1 May 2008. Definition: For an outstanding scholarly work on the linguistics or literatures of any of the Germanic languages (Danish, Dutch, German, Norwegian, Swedish, Yiddish). Eligibility: Books published in 2006 or 2007; authors must be members of the MLA. Copies required: Four. Howard R. Marraro Prize - Deadline: 1 May 2008. Definition: For an outstanding scholarly work on any phase of Italian literature or comparative literature involving Italian. Eligibility: Books published in 2007; authors must be members of the MLA. Copies required: Four. Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Literary Work - Deadline: 1 April 2008. Definition: For an outstanding translation into English of a book-length literary work. Eligibility: Translations published in 2007; translators need not be members of the MLA. Copies required: Six, plus 12-15 pages of text in original language. Note: The Lois Roth Award for a Translation of a Literary Work is given each odd-numbered year, while the Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Literary Work is given each even-numbered year. Each competition is open to translations published in the year preceding the year in which the award is given. Definitions and criteria are the same for both awards. Fenia and Yaakov Leviant Memorial Prize in Yiddish Studies - Deadline: 1 May 2008. Definition: For an outstanding scholarly work in the field of Yiddish. Eligibility: Scholarly work in the field of Yiddish published between 2004 and 2007; authors need not be members of the MLA. Copies required: Four. Note: This prize will be awarded alternately to an outstanding translation or an outstanding scholarly work in the field of Yiddish. For 2010, the prize will be awarded to an outstanding English translation of a Yiddish literary work published between 2006 and 2009. Biennial Prizes with Competitions in 2009 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Scholarly Study of Literature - Deadline: 1 May 2009 Definition: For an outstanding translation into English of a book-length work of literary history, literary criticism, philology, or literary theory. Eligibility: Books published in 2007 or 2008; translators need not be members of the MLA. Copies required: Four. Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Slavic Languages and Literatures - Deadline: 1 May 2009 Definition: For an outstanding scholarly work on the linguistics or literatures of the Slavic languages. Eligibility: Books published in 2007 or 2008; authors need not be members of the MLA. Copies required: Four. Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Italian Studies - Deadline: 1 May 2009 Definition: For an outstanding scholarly work on any phase of Italian literature or culture or comparative literature involving Italian. Eligibility: Books must be published in 2008; authors must be members of the MLA. Copies required: Four. Morton N. Cohen Award for a Distinguished Edition of Letters - Deadline: 1 May 2009 Definition: For an outstanding edition of letters. Editions may be in single or multiple volumes. Eligibility: At least one volume must have been published in 2007 or 2008; editors need not be members of the MLA. Copies required: Four. MLA Prize for a Distinguished Scholarly Edition - Deadline: 1 May 2009 Definition: For an outstanding scholarly edition. Editions may be in single or multiple volumes. Eligibility: At least one volume must have been published in 2007 or 2008; editors need not be members of the MLA. Copies required: Four. Lois Roth Award for a Translation of a Literary Work - Deadline: 1 May 2009 Definition: For an outstanding translation into English of a book-length literary work. Eligibility: Translations published in 2008; translators need not be members of the MLA. Copies required: Six, plus 12-15 pages of text in original language. Note: The Lois Roth Award for a Translation of a Literary Work is given each odd-numbered year, while the Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Literary Work is given each even-numbered year. Each competition is open to translations published in the year preceding the year in which the award is given. Definitions and criteria are the same for both awards.