The AUHE Prize for Literary Scholarship is awarded to the best book of literary scholarship published by an Australian-based author in the previous twelve months. Works eligible for the prize include single-author or co-written monographs, multi-authored books including edited collections, reference works, born-digital works equivalent to printed books, bibliographic works of substance and other forms of equivalent scholarly production.
All forms of literary scholarship are acceptable, including critical, theoretical, empirical, historical, textual and so on. Interdisciplinary scholarship is not precluded though a work must engage with what is understood as books and writing in whatever form.
The prize is decided by a panel of members nominated by the AUHE Executive.
The winner is announced at the time of the AUHE AGM, usually in late November or early December.
AUHE Prize for Literary Scholarship 2023 Announcement of Shortlist and Winner
(From the Judges’ Report – download it here)
There were 13 submissions for the 2023 AUHE Prize for Literary Scholarship, in what
the judges saw as a robust field. (…)
The three shortlisted works are fine examples of the disciplinary diversity of
contemporary literary scholarship. Shortlisted for the 2023 AUHE Prize for Literary
Scholarship are:
Melinda Cooper
Middlebrow Modernism: Eleanor Dark’s Interwar Fiction, Sydney Studies in
Australian Literature, 2023.
Thomas H. Ford and Justin Clemens
Barron Field in New South Wales: The Poetics of Terra Nullius, Melbourne University Press, 2023.
Roberta Kwan
Shakespeare, the Reformation and the Interpreting Self, Edinburgh University Press,
2023.
(…)
The winner of the 2023 Australian University Heads of English Prize for Literary
Scholarship is Melinda Cooper, Middlebrow Modernism: Eleanor Dark’s Interwar
Fiction, Sydney Studies in Australian Literature, 2023. Congratulations!
2022 AUHE Prize Judges’ Report
The Judges’ Report for the 2022 AUHE Prize is now available. Please click here to download it.
Call for Nominations for the 2022 AUHE Prize for Literary Scholarship
The Australian Universities Heads of English (AUHE) is calling for nominations for the 2022 AUHE Prize for Literary Scholarship, which will be awarded to the best book of literary scholarship published by an Australian-based author in the last twelve months.
Works eligible for the prize include single-author or co-written monographs, multi-authored books including edited collections, reference works, born-digital works equivalent to printed books, bibliographic works of substance and other forms of equivalent scholarly production. All forms of literary scholarship are acceptable, including critical, theoretical, empirical, historical, textual and so on. Interdisciplinary scholarship is not precluded though a work must engage with what is understood as books and writing in whatever form.
Nominated books need to have been published between 1 July 2021 and 30 June 2022.
The prize is decided by a panel of members nominated by the AUHE executive. This year the panel members are: Chris Danta, Tanya Dalziell, and Paul Giles. The winner will be announced at the time of the AUHE AGM, usually in late November or early December.
Please forward all nominations to the Chair of the judging panel, Chris Danta (c.danta@unsw.edu.au) by 5pm, 1st August 2022. Nominators should supply or ensure access to three copies of the nominated text. Either hard or electronic copies are acceptable, with electronic copies preferred. Authors may self-nominate. If nominating a book you have not authored, please contact the author of the text you are nominating to avoid duplicate entries. Publishers may also nominate books.
For any queries, please email the Chair of the judging panel.
2021 AUHE Prize for Literary Scholarship Announcement
The winner of the 2021 AUHE Prize for Literary Scholarship is Paul Giles, for The Planetary Clock: Antipodean Time and Spherical Postmodern Fictions (Oxford University Press). Congratulations!
Read the judges’ comment here.
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