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The University of Southern California Book Prize in Literary and Cultural Studies, established in 2009, and sponsored by the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Southern California, is awarded annually for an outstanding monograph published on Russia, Eastern Europe or Eurasia in the fields of literary and cultural studies in the previous calendar year.
The University of Southern California Book Prize in Literary and Cultural Studies carries a cash award. The award is presented in November at the ASEEES Annual Convention.
2012 University of Southern California Book Prize in Literary and Cultural Studies Committee
The winner of the USC Book Prize in Literary and Cultural Studies will be chosen by the following scholars:
- Robert Bird, University of Chicago; Committee Chair, 2010-2012
(mailing address):
Robert Bird
Slavic Languages and Literatures
Foster 405
The University of Chicago
1130 E. 59th St.
Chicago, IL 60637 - Julie Buckler, Harvard University; 2012-2014
(mailing address):
Julie Buckler
183 Allerton Road, Apt 2
Newton Highlands, MA 02461
- Sarah Pratt, University of Southern California; 2012-2013
(mailing address):
Sarah Pratt
2593 Page Dr
Altadena, CA 91001
Rules of eligibility
Rules of eligibility for the University of Southern California Book Prize in Literary and Cultural Studies competition are as follows:
- The copyright date inside the book must list the previous calendar year as the date of publication (for example, the book must have been published in 2011 to be eligible for the 2012 competition).
- The book must be originally in the form of a monograph, preferably by a single author, or by no more than two authors.
- Authors may be of any nationality as long as the work is originally published in English.
- Works may deal with any area of Russia, Eastern Europe, or Eurasia.
- The competition is open to works of scholarship in literary and cultural studies, including studies in the visual arts, cinema, music, and dance.
- Textbooks, collections, translations, bibliographies, and reference works are ineligible.
Nominating Instructions
Send one copy of eligible monograph to each Committee member (see addresses above) AND to the ASEEES main office (address in the footnote; electronic notifications to newsnet@pitt.edu). Nominations must be received no later than May 7.
Submissions should be clearly marked “University of Southern California Book Prize Nomination.” If you would like to receive an acknowledgment that your nomination was received please enclose with the copy mailed to the ASEEES main office a note with your e-mail address or a self-addressed stamped envelope or a postcard.
Past winners of the USC Book Prize
The following scholars received the USC Book Prize in the past:
- 2011 - James Loeffler for The Most Musical Nation: Jews and Culture in the Late Russian Empire (Yale University Press)
- 2010 - Claudia R. Jensen for Musical Cultures in Seventeenth-Century Russia (Indiana University Press)
- 2009 — Priscilla Meyer for How the Russians Read the French: Lermontov, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy (University of Wisconsin Press)