Greetings.
Last year, the generosity of Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione enabled the Modern Language Association to create the Scaglione Prize for East Asian Studies, to be awarded annually to an outstanding scholarly work in East Asian literary studies. Works of literary history, literary criticism, philology, and literary theory are eligible, as are works dealing with literature and other arts and disciplines, including cinema.
The inaugural award was conferred at the recent MLA conference in Philadelphia to Edward Mack (U of Washington) for Acquired Alterity: Migration, Identity, and Literary Nationalism (U of California P, 2022). At the same time, Brian Hurley (U of Texas Austin) was awarded Honorable Mention for his Confluence and Conflict: Reading Transwar Japanese Literature and Thought (Harvard U Asia Center, 2022).
The MLA is now inviting authors of books published in 2023 in East Asian literary studies to submit their works for consideration. Membership in the MLA is not required to be considered, but submission of required materials must be made before May 1, 2024. For further information, see the MLA announcement.
Please feel free to help spread the word about this prize by forwarding this announcement to relevant authors and publishers.
Note: books that are primarily translations are not eligible for this award but translators may wish to consider the biennially awarded Scaglione Prize for Translation of a Scholarly Study of Literature or the annual Scaglione Prize for Translation of a Literary Work or the Lois Roth award, also for the translation of literature.
Best,
Members of the Selection Committee for the Scaglione Prize in East Asian Studies