All Future Plunges to the Past: James Joyce in Russian Literature by José Vergara (Northern Illinois University Press, 2021)
Internationalist Aesthetics: China and Early Soviet Culture by Edward Tyerman (Columbia University Press, 2021)
Joseph Brodsky and Collaborative Self-Translation by Natasha Rulyova (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Love for Sale: Representing Prostitution in Imperial Russia by Colleen Lucey (Northern Illinois University Press, 2021)
Medical Storyworlds: Health, Illness, and Bodies in Russian and European Literature at the Turn of the Twentieth Century by Elena Fratto (Columbia University Press, 2021)
Nikolai Gogol: Performing Hybrid Identity by Yuliya Ilchuk (University of Toronto Press, 2021)
On Russian Soil: Myth and Materiality by Mieka Erley (Northern Illinois University Press, 2021)
Snapshots of the Soul: Photo-Poetic Encounters in Modern Russian Culture by Molly Thomasy Blasing (Cornell University Press, 2021)
Best Book in Literary/Cultural Studies:
All Future Plunges to the Past: James Joyce in Russian Literature by José Vergara (Northern Illinois University Press, 2021)
Art Work by Katja Praznik (Toronto University Press, 2021)
Breaking Free from Death: The Art of Being a Successful Russian Writer, by Galina Rylkova (Academic Studies Press, 2020)
Chekhov’s Children: Context and Text in Late Imperial Russia, by Nadya L. Peterson (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2021)
Contested Russian Tourism: Cosmopolitanism, Nation, and Empire in the Nineteenth Century, by Susan Layton (Academic Studies Press, 2021)
Eurasia without Borders: The Dream of a Leftist Literary Commons, 1919–1943, by Katerina Clark (Harvard University Press, 2021)
Feeling Revolution by Anna Toropova (Oxford University Press, 2020)
The Ghost of Shakespeare: Collected Essays, by Anna Frajlich and edited by Ronald Meyer (Academic Studies Press, 2020)
Ideas Against Ideocracy: Non-Marxist Thought of the Late Soviet Period (1953-1991) by Mikhail Epstein (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Internationalist Aesthetics: China and Early Soviet Cultureby Edward Tyerman (Columbia University Press, 2021)
Joseph Brodsky and Collaborative Self-Translation by Natasha Rulyova (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Love for Sale: Representing Prostitution in Imperial Russia by Colleen Lucey (Cornell University Press, 2021)
Mandelstam's Worlds by Andrew Kahn (Oxford University Press, 2020)
Medical Storyworlds: Health, Illness, and Bodies in Russian and European Literature at the Turn of the Twentieth Century by Elena Fratto (Columbia University Press, 2021)
Men Out of Focus by Marko Dumancic (Toronto University Press, 2021)
Nikolai Gogol: Performing Hybrid Identity by Yuliya Ilchuk (University of Toronto Press, 2021)
“The Nose”: A Stylistic and Critical Companion to Nikolai Gogol’s Story, by Ksana Blank (Academic Studies Press, 2021)
On Russian Soil: Myth and Materiality by Mieka Erley (Cornell University Press, 2021)
Prague: Belonging in the Modern City, by Chad Bryant (Harvard University Press, 2021)
Russomania by Rebecca Beasley (Oxford University Press, 2020)
She Animates: Soviet Female Subjectivity in Russian Animation, by Michele Leigh and Lora Mjolsness (Academic Studies Press, 2020)
Snapshots of the Soul: Photo-Poetic Encounters in Modern Russian Culture by Molly Thomasy Blasing (Cornell University Press, 2021)
Songs in Dark Times: Yiddish Poetry of Struggle from Scottsboro to Palestine, by Amelia M. Glaser (Harvard University Press, 2021)
The Sound of Modern Polish Poetry: Performance and Recording after World War II, by Aleksandra Kremer (Harvard University Press, 2021)
Survival as Victory: Ukrainian Women in the Gulag, by Oksana Kis (Harvard University Press, 2021)
Ukraine’s Nuclear Disarmament: A History, by Yuri Kostenko (Harvard University Press, 2021)
Best Edited Multi-Author Scholarly Volume:
The Akunin Project. Ed. by Elena Baraban and Stephen Norris (Toronto University Press, 2021)
Cinemasaurus: Russian Film in Contemporary Context, edited by Nancy Condee, Alexander Prokhorov, and Elena Prokhorova (Academic Studies Press, 2020)
Dostoevsky at 200. Ed. by Katherine Bowers and Kate Holland (Toronto University Press, 2021)
Goncharov in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Ingrid Kleespies and Lyudmila Parts (Academic Studies Press, 2021)
Lolita in the Afterlife: On Beauty, Risk, and Reckoning with the Most Indelible and Shocking Novel of the Twentieth Century, Ed. by Jenny Minton Quigley (Vintage, 2021)
The Palgrave Handbook of Russian Thought. Edited by Marina Bykova, Michael Forster and Lina Steiner (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
The Rhetorical Rise and Demise of “Democracy” in Russian Political Discourse, Volume 1: The Path from Disaster toward Russian “Democracy”, by David Cratis Williams, Marilyn J. Young, and Michael K. Launer (Academic Studies Press, 2021)
Russian TV Series in the Era of Transition: Genres, Technologies, Identities, edited by Alexander Prokhorov, Elena Prokhorova, and Rimgaila Salys (Academic Studies Press, 2021)
Theory in the “Post” Era: A Vocabulary for the 21st-Century Conceptual Commons. Ed. by Alexandru Matei, Christian Moraru, and Andrei Terian (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Three Loves for Three Oranges. Gozzi, Meyerhold, Prokofiev. Edited by Dassia N. Posner and Kevin Bartig. With Maria De Simone (Indiana University Press, 2021)
Best Literary / Scholarly Translation into English:
Abigail by Magda Szabó. Translated by Len Rix (New York Review Books, 2020)
Contemporary Queer Plays by Russian Playwrights. Edited and translated by Tatiana Klepikova (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Countries That Don’t Exist: Selected Nonfiction by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky. Edited by Jacob Emery and Alexander Spektor (Columbia University Press, 2021)
From the Vilna Ghetto to Nuremberg: Memoir and Testimony by Abraham Sutzkever. Translated by Justin Cammy (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2021)
Here in Our Auschwitz and Other Stories by Tadeusz Borowski. Translated from the Polish by Madeline G. Levine (Yale University Press, 2021)
Kin by Miljenko Jergović. Translated from the Croatian by Russell Scott Valentino (Archipelago Books, 2021).
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk: Selected Stories of Nikolai Leskov by Nikolai Leskov. Translated from the Russian by Donald Rayfield, Robert Chandler, William Edgerton. (New York Review Books, 2020)
Other Worlds: Peasants, Pilgrims, Spirits, Saints by N. Teffi. Translated by Robert Chandler, Elizabeth Chandler, and others (New York Review Books, 2021)
“Quiet Spiders of the Hidden Soul”: Mykola (Nik) Bazhan’s Early Experimental Poetry. Edited by Oksana Rosenblum, Lev Fridman, and Anzhelika Khyzhnya (Academic Studies Press, 2020)
Sketches of the Criminal World by Varlam Shalamov. Translated from Russian by Donald Rayfield (New York Review Books, 2020)
The Symphonies by Andrei Bely, translated by Jonathan Stone (Columbia University Press, 2021)
Temptation by János Székely translated from Hungarian by Mark Baczoni (New York Review Books, 2020)
Unwitting Street by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky. Translated from Russian by Joanne Turnbull (New York Review Books, 2020)
The Voice over: Poems and Essays by Maria Stepanova, edited by Irina Shevelenko (Columbia University Press, 2021)
Linguistics And Language Pedagogy:
Corpus Approaches to Language, Thought and Communication by Wei-lun Lu, Naděžda Kudrnáčová, Laura A. Janda (John Benjamins, 2021)
Decoding the 1920s: A Reader for Advanced Learners of Russian by Nila Friedberg (Portland State University Library, 2021)
Etazhi: Second Year Russian Language and Culture by Evgeny Dengub and Susanna Nazarova (Georgetown University Press, 2021)
Faces of Contemporary Russia: Advanced Russian Language and Culture by Olga M. Mesropova (Georgetown University Press, 2019)
Kinotalk by Olga Mesropova (Routledge, 2020)
Language Contact in the Territory of the Former Soviet Union. Editors Diana Forker, Lenore A. Grenoble (John Benjamins, 2021)
Linguistics: Microvariation in the South Slavic Noun Phrase by Steven Franks (Slavica, 2021)
Russian: From Novice High to Intermediate by Anna S. Kudyma (Routledge, 2021)
Russian in Plain English. A Very Basic Russian Starter for Complete Beginners by Natalia V. Parker (Routledge, 2020)
Russian through Art For Intermediate to Advanced Students by Anna Kudyma and Olga Kagan (Routledge, 2019)
Teaching Lolita in the Time of #MeToo. Ed. by Elena Rakhimova-Summers (Lexington Books, 2021)
Transformative Language Learning and Teaching by Betty Lou Leaver, Dan Davidson, and Christine Campbell (Cambridge University Press, 2021)
Nominees for the 2021 AATSEEL book prizes
Best First Book Award:
From Internationalism to Postcolonialism: Literature and Cinema between the Second and the Third World by Rossen Djagalov (McGill-Queen's UP, 2020)
Picturing the Page by Megan Swift (University of Toronto Press, 2020)
Superfluous Women by Jessica Zychowicz (University of Toronto Press, 2020)
Pushkin's Monument and Allusion by Sidney Eric Dement (University of Toronto Press, 2019)
Bridging East and West by Yuliya Ladygina (University of Toronto Press, 2019)
Ukrainian Women Writers and the National Imaginary by Oleksandra Wallo (University of Toronto Press, 2019)
Psychomotor Aesthetics: Movement and Affect in Modern Literature and Film by Ana Hedberg Olenina (Oxford University Press, 2020)
Dostoevsky and the Ethics of Narrative Form: Suspense, Closure, Minor Characters by Greta Matzner-Gore (Northwestern University Press, 2020)
Reader as Accomplice: Narrative Ethics in Dostoevsky and Nabokov by Alexander Spektor (Northwestern University Press, 2020)
Russia’s Capitalist Realism: Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Chekhov by Vadim Shneyder (Northwestern University Press, 2020)
Queer Transgressions in Twentieth-Century Polish Fiction: Gender, Nation, Politics by Jack J. Hutchens (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2020)
It Will Be Fun and Terrifying: Nationalism and Protest in Post-Soviet Russia by Fabrizio Fenghi (University of Wisconsin Press, 2020).
Best Book in Literary/Cultural Studies:
From Internationalism to Postcolonialism: Literature and Cinema between the Second and the Third World by Rossen Djagalov (McGill-Queen's UP, 2020)
Conspiracy Culture by Keith A. Livers (University of Toronto Press, 2020)
Picturing the Page by Megan Swift (University of Toronto Press, 2020)
Superfluous Women by Jessica Zychowicz (University of Toronto Press, 2020)
Ukrainian Epic and Historical Song by Natalie Kononenko (University of Toronto Press, 2019)
Pushkin's Monument and Allusion by Sidney Eric Dement (University of Toronto Press, 2019)
Bridging East and West by Yuliya V. Ladygina (University of Toronto Press, 2019)
Ukrainian Women Writers and the National Imaginary by Oleksandra Wallo (University of Toronto Press, 2019)
Travels from Dostoevsky’s Siberia: Encounters with Polish Literary Exiles by Elizabeth Blake (Academic Studies Press, 2020)
Breaking Free from Death: The Art of Being a Successful Russian Writer by Galina Rylkova (Academic Studies Press, 2020)
The Ghost of Shakespeare by Anna Frajlich (Academic Studies Press, 2020)
She Animates: Soviet Female Subjectivity in Russian Animation by Michele Leigh & Lora Mjolsness (Academic Studies Press, 2020)
A Reader’s Companion to Mikhail Bulgakov’s “The Master and Margarita” by J. A. E. Curtis (Academic Studies Press, 2019)
Wingless Desire in Modernist Russia: Envy and Authorship in the 1920s by Yelena Zotova (Lexington Books, 2020)
Psychomotor Aesthetics: Movement and Affect in Modern Literature and Film by Ana Hedberg Olenina (Oxford University Press, 2020)
The Bilingual Muse: Self-Translation among Russian Poets by Adrian Wanner (Northwestern University Press, 2020)
Dostoevsky and the Ethics of Narrative Form: Suspense, Closure, Minor Characters by Greta Matzner-Gore (Northwestern University Press, 2020)
The Soviet Writers’ Union and Its Leaders: Identity and Authority under Stalin by Carol Any (Northwestern University Press, 2020)
Reader as Accomplice: Narrative Ethics in Dostoevsky and Nabokov by Alexander Spektor (Northwestern University Press, 2020)
Pelevin and Unfreedom: Poetics, Politics, Metaphysics by Sofya Khagi (Northwestern University Press, 2020)
Hunting Nature: Ivan Turgenev and the Organic World by Thomas P. Hodge (Cornell University Press, 2020)
Haunted Empire: Gothic and the Russian Imperial Uncanny by Valeria Sobol (Cornell University Press, 2020)
It Will Be Fun and Terrifying: Nationalism and Protest in Post-Soviet Russia by Fabrizio Fenghi (University of Wisconsin Press, 2020)
Faster, Stronger, Higher, Comrades!: Sports, Art, and Ideology in Late Russian and Early Soviet Culture by Tim Harte (University of Wisconsin Press, 2020)
Songs in Dark Times: Yiddish Poetry of Struggle from Scottsboro to Palestine by Amelia M. Glaser (Harvard University Press, 2020)
Survival on the Margins. Polish Jewish Refugees in the Wartime Soviet Union by Eliyana R. Adler (Harvard University Press, 2020)
Moscow Monumental: Soviet Skyscrapers and Urban Life in Stalin's Capital by Katherine Zubovich (Princeton University Press, 2020)
Stalin: Passage to Revolution by Ronald Grigor Suny (Princeton University Press, 2020)
Late Stalinism by Evgeny Dobrenko (Yale University Press, 2020)
The Collector. The Story of Sergei Shchukin and His Lost Masterpieces by Natalya Semenova with André Delocque (Yale University Press, 2020)
Best Edited Multi-Author Scholarly Volume:
Cinemasaurus: Russian Film in Contemporary Context. Edited by Nancy Condee, Alexander Prokhorov, and Elena Prokhorova (Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2020)
Comintern Aesthetics, ed. by Amelia M. Glaser and Steven S. Lee (University of Toronto Press, 2020)
H.G. Wells and All Things Russian. Ed. by Galya Diment (Anthem Press, 2020)
A Companion to Soviet Children's Literature and Film. Ed. by Olga Voronina (Brill, 2019)
Cold War II: Hollywood's Renewed Obsession with Russia, ed. By Tatiana Prorokova-Konrad (University Press of Mississippi, 2020)
Best Translation into English:
Newcomers: Book 2 by Lojze Kovačič. Translated into English from the Slovenian by Michael Biggins (Archipelago Books, 2020)
21: Russian Short Prose from the Odd Century edited by Mark Lipovetsky (Academic Studies Press, 2020)
Permanent Evolution: Selected Essays on Literature, Theory and Film by Yuri Tynianov. Translated and edited by Ainsley Morse & Philip Redko. With an introduction by Daria Khitrova (Academic Studies Press, 2019)
A New Orthography by Serhiy Zhadan. Poems translated by John Hennessy & Ostap Kin (Lost Horse Press, 2020)
Smokes by Yuri Izdryk. Poems translated by Roman Ivashkiv & Erin Moure (Lost Horse Press, 2019)
Pray to the Empty Wells by Iryna Shuvalova. Poems translated by Olena Jennings & the Author (Lost Horse Press, 2019)
Mountain & Flower: Selected Poems of Mykola Vorobiov. Poems translated by Maria G. Rewakowicz (Lost Horse Press, 2020)
Juri Lotman - Culture, Memory and History. Essays in Cultural Semiotics. Ed. Marek Tamm. Translated from the Russian by Brian James Baer (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)
Empiriomonism: Essays in Philosophy Books 1-3 by Alexander Bogdanov, edited and translated by David G. Rowley (Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2020)
Russia Washed in Blood A novel in fragments by Artyom Vesyoly, translated by Kevin Windle, with an introduction by Kevin Windle and Elena Govor (New York & London, Anthem Press, 2020)
The Nose and Other Stories by Nikolai Gogol, translated by Susanne Fusso (Columbia University Press, 2020)
Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow by Alexander Radishchev translated by Andrew Kahn and Irina Reyfman (Columbia University Press, 2020)
To the Ashes by Anzhelina Polonskaya, translated from Russian by Andrew Wachtel (Zephyr Press, 2019)
Paper-Thin Skin by Aigerim Tazhi, translated from Russian by J. Kates (Zephyr Press, 2019)
Breathing Technique by Marija Knežević, translated from Serbian by Sibelan Forrester (Zephyr Press, 2020)
Night Truck Driver by Marcin Świetlicki, translated from Polish by Elżbieta Wójcik-Leese (Zephyr Press, 2020)
Abigail by Magda Szabo, translated by Len Rix (New York Review Books, 2020)
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk: Selected Stories of Nikolai Leskov, translated by Donald Rayfield, Robert Chandler and William Edgerton (New York Review Books, 2020)
Unwitting Street by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky, translated by Joanne Turnbull (New York Review Books, 2020)
Sketches of the Criminal World: Further Kolyma Stories by Varlam Shalamov, translated by Donald Rayfield (New York Review Books, 2020)
Stalingrad by Vasily Grossman, translated by Robert Chandler and Elizabeth Chandler (New York Review Books, 2019)
Rock Paper Scissors: And Other Stories by Maxim Osipov, translated by Boris Dralyuk, Alex Fleming, and Anne Marie Jackson (New York Review Books, 2019)
Twenty Years in a Siberian Gulag: Memoir of a Political Prisoner at Kolyma by Leonid Petrovich Bolotov, translated by Irina Y. Barclay (McFarland, 2020)
Linguistics And Language Pedagogy:
Decoding the 1920s: A Reader for Advanced Learners of Russian by Nila Friedberg (2021, PDXOpen: Open Educational Resources. 33.
https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/pdxopen/33)
The Art of Teaching Russian. Edited by Evgeny Dengub, Irina Dubinina, and Jason Merrill (Georgetown University Press, 2020)
Nominees for the 2020 AATSEEL book prizes
Best Book in Literary/Cultural Studies (books published in 2018 and 2019 eligible):
The Power of Language by Richard S. Wortman (Bloomsbury, 2019)
Russia in the Time of Cholera by John P. Davis (Bloomsbury, 2019)
Russia's 20th Century A Journey in 100 Histories by Michael Khodarkovsky (Bloomsbury, 2019)
The Image of Christ in Russian Literature: Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Bulgakov, Pasternak by John Givens (Northern Illinois University Press, 2018)
Memory Politics in Contemporary Russia: Television, Cinema and the State by Mariëlle Wijermars (Routledge, 2018)
The Firebird and the Fox. Russian Culture under Tsars and Bolsheviks by Jeffrey Brooks (Cambridge University Press, 2019)
Antisemitism and the Russian Revolution by Brendan McGeever (Cambridge University Press, 2019)
The Russian Graphosphere, 1450-1850 by Simon Franklin (Cambridge University Press, 2019)
Nabokov and Indeterminacy: The Case of The Real Life of Sebastian Knight by Priscilla Meyer (Northwestern University Press, 2018)
How Women Must Write: Inventing the Russian Woman Poet by Olga Peters Hasty (Northwestern University Press, 2019)
Everything Has Already Been Written: Moscow Conceptualist Poetry and Performance by Gerald Janecek (Northwestern University Press, 2018)
Polish Literature and the Holocaust: Eyewitness Testimonies, 1942-1947 by Rachel F. Brenner (Northwestern University Press, 2019)
The Birth and Death of Literary Theory: Regimes of Relevance in Russia and Beyond by Galin Tihanov (Stanford University Press, 2019).
The Filmmaker's Philosopher: Merab Mamardashvili and Russian Cinema by Alyssa DeBlasio (Edinburgh University Press, 2019)
Travels from Dostoevsky’s Siberia: Encounters with Polish Literary Exiles edited and translated by Elizabeth A. Blake (Academic Studies Press, 2019)
That Savage Gaze: Wolves in the Nineteenth-Century Russian Imagination by Ian Helfant (Academic Studies Press, 2019)
Tolstoy’s On Life (from the Archival History of Russian Philosophy) by Inessa Medzhibovskaya (Tolstoy Studies Journal, 2019)
Plots against Russia: Conspiracy and Fantasy after Socialism by Eliot Borenstein (Cornell University Press, 2019)
Life Is Elsewhere: Symbolic Geography in the Russian Provinces, 1800–1917 by Anne Lounsbery (Cornell University Press, 2019)
'The Epistolary Art of Catherine the Great' by Kelsey Rubin-Detlev (Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, 2019)
A History of Russian Literature. By Andrew Kahn, Mark Lipovetsky, Irina Reyfman, and Stephanie Sandler (Oxford University Press, 2018)
Devastation and Laughter: Satire, Power, and Culture in the Early Soviet State (1920s–1930s) by Annie Gérin (University of Toronto Press, 2018)
Between rhyme and reason: Vladimir Nabokov, translation, and dialogue by Stanislav Shvabrin (University of Toronto Press, 2019)
Ukrainian epic and historical song: folklore in context by Natalie Kononenko (University of Toronto Press, 2019)
Pushkin's Monument and Allusion: Poem, Statue, Performance by Sidney Eric Dement (University of Toronto Press, 2019)
Selling the Story: Transaction and Narrative Value in Balzac, Dostoevsky, and Zola by Jonathan Paine (Harvard University Press, 2019).
Teffi: A Life of Letters and of Laughter by Edythe Haber (London-New York: I.B. Tauris, 2019).
Make It the Same. Poetry in the Age of Global Media
by Jacob Edmond (Columbia University Press, 2019)
Noble Subjects: The Russian Novel and the Gentry, 1762–1861 by Bella Grigoryan
(Cornell University Press, 2019)
Lyric Complicity. Poetry and Readers in the Golden Age of Russian Literature by Daria Khitrova (University of Wisconsin Press, 2019)
Revolution Rekindled: The Writers and Readers of Late Soviet Biography by Polly Jones (Oxford University Press, 2019)
Best First Book Award:
Russia in the Time of Cholera by John P. Davis (Bloomsbury, 2019)
Memory Politics in Contemporary Russia: Television, Cinema and the State by Mariëlle Wijermars (Routledge, 2018)
Pushkin's Monument and Allusion: Poem, Statue, Performance by Sidney Eric Dement (University of Toronto Press, 2019)
The Epistolary Art of Catherine the Great by Kelsey Rubin-Detlev (Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, 2019)
Only Among Women: Philosophies of Community in the Russian and Soviet Imagination, 1860-1940 by Anne Eakin Moss (Northwestern University Press, 2019)
Best Edited Multi-Author Scholarly Volume:
Tolstoy and His Problems: Views from the Twenty-First Century edited by Inessa Medzhibovskaya (Northwestern University Press, 2018)
Russian Science Fiction Literature and Cinema: A Critical Reader edited and introduced by Anindita Banerjee (Academic Studies Press, 2019)
A Dostoevskii Companion: Texts and Contexts edited by Katherine Bowers, Connor Doak, and Kate Holland (Academic Studies Press, 2019)
Taming the Corpus: From Inflection and Lexis to Interpretation. Editors: Masako Fidler, Václav Cvrček (New York: Springer, 2018)
Slavic on the Language Map of Europe: Historical and Areal-Typological Dimensions (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs) ed. by Andrii Danylenko and Motoki Nomachi (De Gruyter Mouton, 2019)
Russian Performances: Word, Object, Action, eds. J. Buckler, J. Cassiday, B. Wolfson (University of Wisconsin Press, 2018)
A/Z: Essays in Honor of Alexander Zholkovsky, eds. D. Ioffe, M. Levitt, etc. (Academic Studies Press, 2018)
And Thus You Are Everywhere Honored: Studies Dedicated To Brian D. Joseph. James J. Pennington, Victor A. Friedman, and Lenore A. Grenoble (eds.) (Slavica, 2019)
Global Russian Cultures edited by Kevin M. F. Platt (University of Wisconsin Press, 2019)
The Poetry and Poetics of Olga Sedakova edited by Stephanie Sandler, Maria Khotimsky, Margarita Krimmel, and Oleg Novikov (University of Wisconsin Press, 2019)
Reframing Russian Modernism edited by Irina Shevelenko (University of Wisconsin Press, 2018)
Best Translation into English:
Pray to the Empty Wells by Iryna Shuvalova, translated by Olena Jennings and the author (Lost Horse Press, 2019)
Smokes by Yuri Izdryk, translated by Roman Ivashkiv and Erín Moure (Lost Horse Press, 2019)
On Life: A Critical Edition by Leo Tolstoy, edited by Inessa Medzhibovskaya, translated from the Russian by Michael Denner and Inessa Medzhibovskaya (Northwestern University Press, 2018)
Night and Day by Abdulhamid Sulaymon o’g’li Cho’lpon, translated from the Uzbek by Christopher Fort (Academic Studies Press, 2019)
Beyond Tula: A Soviet Pastoral by Andrei Egunov-Nikolev, translated from the Russian by Ainsley Morse (Academic Studies Press, 2019)
New York Elegies: Ukrainian Poems on the City, edited by Ostap Kin (Academic Studies Press, 2019)
EEG by Daša Drndić, translated by Celia Hawkesworth (New Directions, 2019)
Doppelganger by Daša Drndić, translated by Celia Hawkesworth (New Directions, 2019)
Illegible: A Novel by Sergey Gandlevsky. Translated by Susanne Fusso (Cornell University Press, 2019)
Rock, Paper, Scissors: And Other Stories by Maxim Osipov, preface by Svetlana Alexievich, edited by Boris Dralyuk, translated by Boris Dralyuk, Alex Fleming, and Anne Marie Jackson (NYRB Classics, 2019)
Stalingrad by Vasily Grossman, translated by Robert and Elizabeth Chandler (NYRB Classics, 2019)
Necropolis by Vladislav Khodasevich, translated by Sarah Vitali (Columbia University Press, 2019)
New Russian Drama edited by Maksim Hanukai and Susanna Weygandt (Columbia University Press, 2019)
Nikolai Nikolaevich and Camouflage by Yuz Aleshkovsky, translated by Duffield White, edited by Susanne Fusso (Columbia University Press, 2019)
Best Contribution to Language Pedagogy Award:
LLC Commons by Shannon Spasova and Liudmila Klimanova (University of Arizona Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy (CERCLL) and Michigan State University, 2019). Open access: https://llccommons.arizona.edu/
Lexical Layers of Identity Words, Meaning, and Culture in the Slavic Languages by Danko Šipka (Cambridge University Press, 2019)
Faces of Contemporary Russia. Advanced Russian Language and Culture by Olga M. Mesropova (Georgetown University Press, 2019)
Rodnaya Rech'. An Introductory Course for Heritage Learners of Russian by Irina Dubinina and Olesya Kisselev (Georgetown University Press, 2019)