2025 AUHE Prize for Literary Scholarship: Shortlist and Winner

We are pleased to announce the winner of the 2025 AUHE Prize for Literary Scholarship (edited collections and critical editions): Dashiell Moore and Philip Morrissey (editors), Lionel Fogarty in Poetry and Politics (Palgrave, 2025). Congratulations! The shortlisted volumes are the following: To read the Judges’ comments on the works, please click here.

AUHE Prize for Literary Scholarship 2024

AUHE is pleased to announce that the winner of the AUHE Prize for Literary Scholarship 2024 is Claire Knowles, Della Cruscan Poetry, Women and the Fashionable Newspaper (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023). Congratulations! AUHE also congratulates Eric Parisot and Emmett Stinson on being shortlisted for the Prize.Please find here the Judges’ Report.

Judges’ Report: 2023 Voss Literary Prize

It is equally a pleasure to announce the Winner of the Voss Literary Prize, thanks to judges Elaine Lindsay (chair), Jumana Bayeh, Christian Bök, Suzie Gibson, and Ann Vickery. (From the Judges’ Report – please download and read the full version here) From a field of 42 novels, the winner of the 2023 Voss LiteraryContinue reading “Judges’ Report: 2023 Voss Literary Prize”

AUHE Prize for Literary Scholarship 2023: Announcement of Shortlist and Winner

It is a pleasure to announce the Shortlist and Winner of the 2023 AUHE Prize for Literary Scholarship: (from the Judges’ Report)Judging Panel: Prof. Emerita Lyn McCredden (chair), Prof. Denise Varney, and Dr Lorraine Sim.There were 13 submissions for the 2023 AUHE Prize for Literary Scholarship, in whatthe judges saw as a robust field. WithinContinue reading “AUHE Prize for Literary Scholarship 2023: Announcement of Shortlist and Winner”

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). The judges commented: Among an impressively strong and diverse field of nominated books, The Planetary Clock is preeminent by virtue of its authoritative engagement with theory and its outstandingly transnational and interdisciplinary range.Continue reading “2021 AUHE Prize for Literary Scholarship Announcement”

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). The judges commented: Among an impressively strong and diverse field of nominated books, The Planetary Clock is preeminent by virtue of its authoritative engagement with theory and its outstandinglyContinue reading “2021 AUHE Prize for Literary Scholarship Announcement”

The 2020 AUHE Prize in Literary Scholarship Announced

Congratulations to Paul Sharrad, winner of the 2020 AUHE Prize for Literary Scholarship for his study Thomas Keneally’s Career and the Literary Machine (Anthem Press). The judges commented: Paul Sharrad’s Thomas Keneally’s Career and the Literary Machine is a highly engaging, deeply researched and richly sourced analysis of Keneally’s multi-faceted career and its shifting receptionContinue reading “The 2020 AUHE Prize in Literary Scholarship Announced”

2019 AUHE Prize in Literary Scholarship Judges Report

Panel: Ann Vickery (Chair), Tom Clark, Ben Etherington Winner Guy Davidson, Categorically Famous: Literary Celebrity and Sexual Liberation in 1960s America In his deep study of the careers and work of James Baldwin, Susan Sontag, and Gore Vidal, Guy Davidson demonstrates how their negotiation of literary celebrity was integrally tied to their sexual identity, somethingContinue reading “2019 AUHE Prize in Literary Scholarship Judges Report”