Shortlisted books for the 2023 AATSEEL book prizes
Best First Book Award:
Architecture of Life: Soviet Modernism and the Human Sciences by Alla Vronskaya (University of Minnesota Press, 2022)
Formalists against Imperialism: The Death of Vazir-Mukhtar and Russian Orientalism by Anna Aydinyan (University of Toronto Press, 2022)
How the Soviet Jew Was Made by Sasha Senderovich (Harvard University Press, 2022)
The Origins of Russian Literary Theory: Folklore, Philology, Form by Jessica Merrill (Northwestern University Press, 2022)
Best Book in Literary Studies:
Resurrection: Comics in Post-Soviet Russia by Jose Alaniz (The Ohio State University Press, 2022)
The Family Novel in Russia and England, 1800-1880 by Anna A. Berman (Oxford University Press, 2022)
Blood of Others: Stalin's Crimean Atrocity and the Poetics of Solidarity by Rory Finnin (University of Toronto, 2022)
Writing Fear: Russian Realism and the Gothic by Katherine Bowers (University of Toronto Press, 2022)
The Svetlana Boym Best Book in Cultural Studies:
A Woman’s Empire: Russian Women and Imperial Expansion in Asia by Katya Hokanson (University of Toronto Press, 2022)
Creolizing the Modern: Transylvania across Empires by Anca Parvulescu and Manuela Boatcă (Cornell University Press, 2022)
Flowers Through Concrete: Explorations in Soviet Hippieland by Juliane Fürst (Oxford University Press, 2021)
Haunted Dreams: Fantasies of Adolescence in Post-Soviet Culture by Jenny Kaminer (Cornell University Press, 2022)
Best Edited Multi-Author Scholarly Volume:
Energy Culture: Work, Power, and Waste in Russia and the Soviet Union. Edited by Jillian Porter, Maya Vinokour (Palgrave Macmillan 2022)
Remapping Cold War Media: Institutions, Infrastructures, Translations. Edited by Alice Lovejoy and Mari Pajala (Indiana University Press, 2022)
The Pedagogy of Images: Depicting Communism for Children. Edited by Marina Balina and Serguei A. Oushakine (University of Toronto Press, 2021)
Best Literary/Scholarly Translation into English:
Living Pictures by Polina Barskova. Translated by Catherine Ciepiela. Introduction by Eugene Ostashevsky (New York Review Books, 2022)
For the Shrew by Anna Glazova. Translated by Alex Niemi (Zephyr Press, 2022)
Kin by Miljenko Jergović. Translated by Russell Scott Valentino (Archipelago Books, 2021)
The Voices of Babyn Yar by Marianna Kiyanovska. Introduction by Polina Barskova. Translated by Oksana Maksymchuk and Max Rosochinsky (Harvard University Press, 2022)
Best Book in Linguistics and Pedagogy:
Pro-dvizhenie: Advanced Russian through Film and Media by Alyssa DeBlasio and Izolda Savenkova (Georgetown University Press, 2022)
The Art of Teaching Russian. Edited by Evgeny Dengub, Irina Dubinina and Jason Merrill (Georgetown University Press, 2020).