Announcements

A special issue of the MELUS journal is now available, honoring the legacy of Jean Fagan Yellin.

José A. de la Garza Valenzuela’s Fall 2021 MELUS essay, “‘Necessarily Hidden Truth(s)’: Documenting Queer Migrant Experience in Rigoberto González’s Crossing Vines,” has been awarded the 2022 Crompton-Noll Essay Prize. 

The Queer/Trans (Q/T) Caucus of the American Studies Association and Gay and Lesbian/Queer (GL/Q) Caucus of the Modern Language Association award the annual Crompton-Noll essay prize. The Crompton-Noll Award for best essay in lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and/or queer studies/theory in the modern languages/literatures as well as cultural studies (all broadly construed) pays tribute to Louis Crompton, who passed away in 2009, and Dolores Noll (Kent State University), two early scholar/activists who helped found the Gay and Lesbian Caucus. The award recognizes the important work of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and/or queer studies/theory in the modern languages and the history that has helped make this current work possible.

Katherine Fusco and Lynda C. Olman’s MELUS article, “Techniques of Justice: W. E. B. Du Bois’s Data Portraits and the Problem of Visualizing the Race,” has been awarded this year’s 1921 Prize in American literature. Here’s a link to the article: https://academic.oup.com/melus/advance-article/doi/10.1093/melus/mlab031/6408585
The 1921 Prize in American Literature is awarded by the American Literature Society to the best article of the year in any field of American literature, published in a select group of scholarly journals, including MELUS. Here’s more about the prize: https://americanliteraturesociety.wordpress.com/1921-prize-in-american-literature/. At the link, you can find the list of journals from which submissions are invited, and you’ll see that it’s a rather select list. So this is good news for the journal and society, and also a well-deserved recognition of Fusco and Olman’s excellent scholarship!