It is equally a pleasure to announce the Winner of the Voss Literary Prize, thanks to judges Elaine Lindsay (chair), Jumana Bayeh, Christian Bök, Suzie Gibson, and Ann Vickery. (From the Judges’ Report – please download and read the full version here) From a field of 42 novels, the winner of the 2023 Voss LiteraryContinue reading “Judges’ Report: 2023 Voss Literary Prize”
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AUHE Prize for Literary Scholarship 2023: Announcement of Shortlist and Winner
It is a pleasure to announce the Shortlist and Winner of the 2023 AUHE Prize for Literary Scholarship: (from the Judges’ Report)Judging Panel: Prof. Emerita Lyn McCredden (chair), Prof. Denise Varney, and Dr Lorraine Sim.There were 13 submissions for the 2023 AUHE Prize for Literary Scholarship, in whatthe judges saw as a robust field. WithinContinue reading “AUHE Prize for Literary Scholarship 2023: Announcement of Shortlist and Winner”
2022 AUHE Prize Judges’ Report
The Judges’ Report for the 2022 AUHE Prize is now available. Please click here to download it.
2021 AUHE Prize for Literary Scholarship Announcement
The winner of the 2021 AUHE Prize for Literary Scholarship is Paul Giles, for The Planetary Clock: Antipodean Time and Spherical Postmodern Fictions (Oxford University Press). The judges commented: Among an impressively strong and diverse field of nominated books, The Planetary Clock is preeminent by virtue of its authoritative engagement with theory and its outstandingly transnational and interdisciplinary range.Continue reading “2021 AUHE Prize for Literary Scholarship Announcement”
2021 AUHE Prize for Literary Scholarship Announcement
The winner of the 2021 AUHE Prize for Literary Scholarship is Paul Giles, for The Planetary Clock: Antipodean Time and Spherical Postmodern Fictions (Oxford University Press). The judges commented: Among an impressively strong and diverse field of nominated books, The Planetary Clock is preeminent by virtue of its authoritative engagement with theory and its outstandinglyContinue reading “2021 AUHE Prize for Literary Scholarship Announcement”
The 2020 AUHE Prize in Literary Scholarship Announced
Congratulations to Paul Sharrad, winner of the 2020 AUHE Prize for Literary Scholarship for his study Thomas Keneally’s Career and the Literary Machine (Anthem Press). The judges commented: Paul Sharrad’s Thomas Keneally’s Career and the Literary Machine is a highly engaging, deeply researched and richly sourced analysis of Keneally’s multi-faceted career and its shifting receptionContinue reading “The 2020 AUHE Prize in Literary Scholarship Announced”
2019 AUHE Prize in Literary Scholarship Judges Report
Panel: Ann Vickery (Chair), Tom Clark, Ben Etherington Winner Guy Davidson, Categorically Famous: Literary Celebrity and Sexual Liberation in 1960s America In his deep study of the careers and work of James Baldwin, Susan Sontag, and Gore Vidal, Guy Davidson demonstrates how their negotiation of literary celebrity was integrally tied to their sexual identity, somethingContinue reading “2019 AUHE Prize in Literary Scholarship Judges Report”
2018 AUHE Judges Report
Winner: Ben Etherington, Literary Primitivism Literary Primitivism is a highly ambitious and brave work of criticism in which Ben Etherington argues persuasively for a reconceptualization of the project of primitivism and a re-evaluation of its significance. Distinguishing it from modernism and expressionism, Etherington demonstrates how primitivism was historically delineated across both the West and non-WestContinue reading “2018 AUHE Judges Report”
Inaugural AUHE Prize for Literary Scholarship Announced
Congratulations to Elizabeth McMahon, winner of the inaugural AUHE prize for literary scholarship for her study Islands, Identity and the Literary Imagination. The award was announced at the AUHE annual meeting on 1 December with congratulations to all of the short-listed authors and excitement about the quality of scholarship exhibited in this new award. The judges’Continue reading “Inaugural AUHE Prize for Literary Scholarship Announced”
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