The James Russell Lowell Prize is an annual prize given to an outstanding scholarly book by the
Modern Language Association
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Background
The prize is presented for a book that is an outstanding literary or linguistic study, a critical edition of an important work, or a critical biography.
Eligibility
The Prize is open only to members of the Association.
Notable winners
Past winners of the prize include:
2021 -
Kevin Quashie, Brown University, for Black Aliveness; or, a Poetics of Being
2020 -
Peter Boxall
Peter John Boxall is a former senior Australian public servant and policymaker.
Background and early life
Peter Boxall was brought up on a farm in Victoria. From year nine, he went to boarding school at Ballarat Grammar. He attained a Master ...
, University of Sussex, for The Prosthetic Imagination: A History of the Novel as Artificial Life
2019 -
Lynn Festa, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, for Fiction without Humanity: Person, Animal, Thing in Early Enlightenment Literature and Culture
2018 -
Jonathan P. Eburne, Pennsylvania State University, for Outsider Theory: Intellectual Histories of Unorthodox Ideas
2017 -
Deborah L. Nelson, University of Chicago, for Tough Enough: Arbus, Arendt, Didion, McCarthy, Sontag, Weil
2016 -
Branka Arsić, Columbia University, for Bird Relics: Grief and Vitalism in Thoreau
2015 - Caroline Levine,
Cornell University
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, for Forms: Whole, Rhythm, Hierarchy, Network
2014 -
Anna Brickhouse,
University of Virginia
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, for The Unsettlement of America: Translation, Interpretation, and the Story of Don Luis de Velasco, 1560–1945
2013 -
David Rosen, Trinity College, and
Aaron Santesso Aaron Santesso (born 14 September 1972) is a Canadian literary scholar and professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His primary area of expertise lies in 17th and 18th-century literatur ...
,
Georgia Institute of Technology
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, for The Watchman in Pieces: Surveillance, Literature, and Liberal Personhood
2012 -
Sianne Ngai,
Stanford University
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, for Our Aesthetic Categories: Zany, Cute, Interesting
2011 -
Simon Gikandi
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Princeton University
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, for Slavery and the Culture of Taste (Princeton Univ. Press, 2011)
Stephen Greenblatt
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Harvard University
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, for The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (W. W. Norton, 2011)
2010 - Phillip H. Round,
University of Iowa
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, for Removable Type: Histories of the Book in Indian Country, 1663–1880
2009 - Laura Dassow Walls,
University of South Carolina, for The Passage to Cosmos: Alexander von Humboldt and the Shaping of America
2008 -
Isobel Armstrong
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University of London
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, for Victorian Glassworlds: Glass Culture and the Imagination 1830–1880
2007 - Laura Marcus,
University of Edinburgh
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, for The Tenth Muse: Writing about Cinema in the Modernist Period
2006 -
Martin Puchner Martin Puchner is a literary critic and philosopher. He studied at Konstanz University, the University of Bologna, and the University of California, Santa Barbara, before receiving his Ph.D. at Harvard University. Until 2009 he held the H. Gordon G ...
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Columbia University
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, for Poetry of the Revolution: Marx, Manifestos, and the Avant-Gardes
2005 - Paula R. Backscheider,
Auburn University
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, for Eighteenth-Century Women Poets and Their Poetry: Inventing Agency, Inventing Genre
W. J. T. Mitchell
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University of Chicago
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, for What Do Pictures Want?: The Lives and Loves of Images
2004 - Diana Fuss, Princeton University, for The Sense of an Interior: Four Writers and the Rooms That Shaped Them
2003 - Giancarlo Maiorino,
Indiana University, Bloomington
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, for At the Margins of the Renaissance: Lazarillo de Tormes and the Picaresque Art of Survival
1979 -
Barbara Kiefer Lewalski
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1972 -
Theodore Ziolkowski
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Early life
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