Modern Language Association prize for independent scholars

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2014-15     Architectural involutions : writing, staging, and building space, c. 1435–1650 by Mimi Yiu
2012–13     Métaspora : essai sur les patries intimes by Joël Des Rosiers
2011     Amy Lowell, diva poet by Melissa Bradshaw
2010     Gothic romanticism : architecture, politics, and literary form by Tom Duggett
2009     The pen and the people : English letter writers, 1660–1800 by Susan Whyman
2008     Between worlds : the rhetorical universe of Paradise Lost by William Pallister
2007     Traumatic verses : on poetry in German from the concentration camps, 1933–1945 by Andrés J. Nader
2006     Foucault 2.0 : beyond power and knowledge by Eric Edward Paras
2005     Defining the world : the extraordinary story of Dr. Johnson's dictionary by Henry Hitchings
2004     Fictional minds by Alan Palmer; Envisioning Taiwan : fiction, cinema, and the nation in the cultural imaginary by June Chun Yip
2003     The truth of ecology : nature, culture, and literature in America by Dana Phillips
2002     Cybering democracy : public space and the Internet by Diana Saco
2001     In Byron's shadow : Modern Greece in the English and American imagination by David Roessel
2000     Caught between worlds : British captivity narratives in fact and fiction by Joe Snader
1999     The young John Muir : an environmental biography by Steven J. Holmes
1998     Dos Passos and the ideology of the feminine by Janet Galligani Casey
1997     Walt Whitman : a gay life by Gary Schmidgall
1996     Unlocking Mallarmé by Graham Robb; Finalist: Becoming modern : the life of Mina Loy by Carolyn Burke
1995     Previous convictions : a journey through the 1950s by Nora Sayre
1994     Africa on film : beyond black and white by Kenneth M. Cameron; Honorable mention: The photograph--a strange, confined place by Mary Price
1993     French odysseys : Greece in French travel literature from the Renaissance to the Romantic Era by Olga Augustinos; Honorable mention: The soul of wit : joke theory from Grimm to Freud by Carl Hill
1992     The smell of books : a cultural-historical study of olfactory perception in literature by Hans J. Rindisbacher
1991     Possible worlds, artificial intelligence, and narrative theory by Marie-Laure Ryan; Honorable mention: The culture of pain by David B. Morris
1990     The literary vocation of Henry Adams by William Merrill Decker; Honorable mention: History of the American cinema, volume 1 : the emergence of cinema : the American screen to 1907 by Charles Musser
1989     Mary Shelley : romance and reality by Emily W. Sunstein
1988     Centuries of female days : Englishwomen's private diaries by Harriet Blodgett
1987     Claude McKay : rebel sojourner in the Harlem Renaissance by Wayne F. Cooper; Puritan legacies : Paradise lost and the New England tradition, 1630-1890 by Keith W. F. Stavely
1986     Bloomers on the Liffey : eisegetical readings of Joyce's Ulysses by Paul van Caspel
1985     Splendid failure : Hart Crane and the making of The bridge by Edward Brunner
1984     Family themes and Hawthorne's fiction : the tenacious web by Gloria C. Erlich
1983     Joseph Conrad : a chronicle by Zdzislaw Najder