Nominated Books for AATSEEL Book Prizes






    Nominees for the 2022 AATSEEL book prizes

    Best First Book Award:


  • 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)