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Shortlisted Books in 2021

Shortlisted books 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)

  • Psychomotor Aesthetics: Movement and Affect in Modern Literature and Film by Ana Hedberg Olenina (Oxford University Press, 2020)

  • Russia’s Capitalist Realism: Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Chekhov by Vadim Shneyder (Northwestern University Press, 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 Studies:


  • Wingless Desire in Modernist Russia: Envy and Authorship in the 1920s by Yelena Zotova (Lexington Books, 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)

    Best Book in Cultural Studies:


  • Faster, Stronger, Higher, Comrades!: Sports, Art, and Ideology in Late Russian and Early Soviet Culture by Tim Harte (University of Wisconsin Press, 2020)

  • Moscow Monumental: Soviet Skyscrapers and Urban Life in Stalin's Capital by Katherine Zubovich (Princeton University Press, 2020)

  • Late Stalinism by Evgeny Dobrenko (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)

  • A Companion to Soviet Children's Literature and Film. Ed. by Olga Voronina (Brill, 2019)

    Best Literary Translation into English:


  • To the Ashes by Anzhelina Polonskaya, translated from Russian by Andrew Wachtel (Zephyr Press, 2019)

  • Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow by Alexander Radishchev translated by Andrew Kahn and Irina Reyfman (Columbia University Press, 2020)

  • Abigail by Magda Szabo, translated by Len Rix (New York Review Books, 2020)

    Best Scholarly Translation into English:


  • Juri Lotman - Culture, Memory and History. Essays in Cultural Semiotics. Ed. Marek Tamm. Translated from the Russian by Brian James Baer (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)

  • 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)

    Linguistics And Language Pedagogy:


    Books on Linguistics And Language Pedagogy are not awarded during this competition cycle. The committee invites your nominations for 2022.