The 1921 Prize is awarded by the American Literature Society (established in 1921) to the best scholarship of the year in American literary studies. We would like to congratulate all following 2024 MELUS winners from the 1921 prizes! You can access and read the winning research below at https://academic.oup.com/melus/pages/1921-prize-winners-2024
Contingent/Non-TT:
Honorable Mentions:
- Susan Cooke Weeber, “Black Radicalism after the Haitian Revolution: Langston Hughes’s Emperor of Haiti,” MELUS (49.3, Fall 2024)
- Haley M. Eazor, “Imagining Aerial Surveillance: (Eco)Poetics and War in Solmaz Sharif’s Look,” MELUS (49.2, Summer 2024)
Tenure Track:
Co-Winner
- Allison N. Harris, “Indian Removal and the Plantation South: Cherokee Present-Absence in Three Neo-Slave Narratives,” MELUS (48.4, Winter 2023, published Jan. 2024)
Honorable Mention:
- Rebecca Foote, ” ‘I Am Unhide-able’: Conditions of Visibility in The Poet X,” MELUS (49.1, Spring 2024)
Tenured:
Winner:
- Stephen Knadler, “Fugitive Figurations of Chronic Disability: Reconstructing Black Disability Politics in Frances Harper’s Iola Leroy,” MELUS (49.1, Spring 2024)
Honorable Mention:
- Megan Cole Paustian, “Laughing through the Mask in Invisible Man,” MELUS (49.3, Fall 2024)