Best Special Issue Award

A special issue from the previous Fall/Winter or current year may be submitted. The journal editor must include a paragraph in the cover letter explaining why the submitted special issue is exceptional. Submissions without the editor’s endorsement will not be considered. A journal may submit only one special issue for this award.

  • 2022: Ground Works, “Vibrant Ecologies of Research,” guest edited by Aaron D. Knochel; Honorable Mention: biography (vol. 44, no. 2&3), "Graphic Medicine," guest edited by Erin La Cour and Anna Poletti

  • 2021: American Literary History (vol. 32, no. 4), “Genealogies of Black Modernity,” edited by Gordon Hutner and Derrick Spires

  • 2020: American Quarterly, vol. 71, no. 3, “Origins of Biopolitics in the Americas,” guest edited by Greta La Fleur and Kyla Schuller

  • 2019: differences, “Sexual Politics, Sexual Panics”

  • 2018: American Literature for the special issue on “Queer about Comics” and Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies for the special issue on “The Bible and English Readers;" Honorable mention: Victorian Literature and Culture for the special issue on “Keywords for Victorian Literature and Culture"

  • 2017: Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly, "Indigenous Conversations"

  • 2016: American Quarterly, "Pacific Currents"

  • 2015: positions: asia critique for the special issue on "reconsidering the 2006 MIT visualizing cultures controversy"

  • 2014: Technology and Culture Architecture and Culture

  • 2013: American Quarterly for the special issue on “Race, Empire and the Crisis of the Subprime” and Radical History for the special issue on “Water;" Honorable mention: New Literary History on “A New Europe?"

  • 2012: Biography for the special issue on "Post Human Lives;" Honorable mentions: Symploke for the special issue on "Hunger" and Philip Roth Studies for the special issue on "Roth and Women"

  • 2011: South Atlantic Quarterly; Honorable Mention: Material Religion

  • 2010: GLQ: Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies and positions: east asia culture critique

  • 2009: American Quarterly; Honorable Mention: Radical History Review

  • 2008: positions: war capital trauma

  • 2007: African American Review, "The Curse of Caste;" Runner-Up: Eighteenth-Century Fiction, "War/La Guerre;" Honorable Mention: Fashion Theory, Vol.11, Issue 2/3

  • 2006: College Literature, "Cognitive Shakespeare: Criticism and Theory in the Age of Neuroscience" and Representation, "Redress;" Runner-Up: Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, "Thinking through Cinema: Film as Philosophy;" Honorable Mention: Philosophia Mathematica, "Kurt Gödel (1906-1978) on Mathematics and Logic"

  • 2005: Radical History Review; Runner-up: Public Culture

  • 2004: Radical History Review

  • 2003: GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies

  • 2002: Critical Inquiry

  • 2001: Poetics Today

  • 2000: Public Culture

  • 1999: New Literary History

  • 1998: American Literature

  • 1997: Arizona Quarterly

  • 1996: Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature

  • 1995: Eighteenth-Century Life, "The South Pacific in the Eighteenth Century: Narratives and Myths;" Runner-up: Women's Studies Quarterly, "Working-Class Studies"

  • 1994: American Literary History, "Curriculum and Criticism;" Runner-Up: North Dakota Quarterly, "Out of Yugoslavia"

  • 1993: Social Research; Runner-up: College Literature

  • 1992: Callaloo, "Haiti, The Literature and Culture;" Honorable mentions: Mosaic, Southwest Review, Strategies, Studies in Twentieth Century Literature, Romance Philology

  • 1991: Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature; Honorable mentions: New Literary History, South Atlantic Quarterly, College Literature

  • 1990: South Atlantic Quarterly , "The Politics of Liberal Education;" Honorable mentions: Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies, "The New Philology"; New Literary History, "History and..."; Modern Fiction Studies, "Narratives of Colonial Resistance"; Exemplaria, "Reconceiving Chaucer"

  • 1989: South Atlantic Quarterly, "Displacing Homophobia"

  • 1988: Critical Inquiry, "The Sociology of Literature"

  • 1987: New Literary History, "Studies in Historical Change"

  • 1986: The Southern Quarterly, "Art and Artists: From a Southern Point of View"

  • 1985: Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, "Feminist Issues in Literary Theory"

  • 1984: Eighteenth Century Life

  • 1983: Studies in Romanticism

  • 1982: New Literary History, "On Convention: I"

  • 1981: Critical Inquiry