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Shortlisted Books in 2023

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).