Winners
1. Best New Journal
1983 Rhetorica
1984 South Central Review
1985 Journal of the Society for Armenian Studies
1986 Studies in American Drama, 1945–Present
1987 Portuguese Studies
1988 The Gettysburg Review
1989 The Yale Journal of Criticism
1990 Journal of World History
1990 Honorable mentions: Journal of Women's History, American Literary History
1991 Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies
1991 Honorable mentions: Manoa, Hellas
1992 Public Culture
1992 Honorable mentions: Colonial Latin American Literature, Joyce Studies Annual, Journal of Indigenous Culture
1993 Narrative
1993 Runner up: American Short Fiction
1994 North Carolina Literary Review
1994 Runner up: Journal of Information Ethics
1995 positions: east asia cultures critique
1995 Runner up: Modernism/modernity
2. Best Special Issue
1981 Critical Inquiry
1982 New Literary History, "On Convention: I"
1983 Studies in Romanticism
1984 Eighteenth Century Life
1985 Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, "Feminist Issues in Literary Theory"
1986 The Southern Quarterly, "Art and Artists: From a Southern Point of View"
1987 New Literary History, "Studies in Historical Change"
1988 Critical Inquiry, "The Sociology of Literature"
1989 South Atlantic Quarterly, "Displacing
Homophobia"
1990 South Atlantic Quarterly , "The Politics of Liberal Education"
1990 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"
1991 Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature
1991 Honorable mentions: New Literary History, South Atlantic Quarterly, College Literature
1992 Callaloo, "Haiti, The Literature and Culture"
1992 Honorable mentions: Mosaic, Southwest Review, Strategies, Studies in Twentieth Century Literature, Romance Philology
1993 Social Research
1993 Runner up: College Literature
1994 American Literary History, "Curriculum and Criticism"
1994 Runner Up: North Dakota Quarterly, "Out of Yugoslavia"
1995 Eighteenth-Century Life, "The South Pacific in the Eighteenth Century: Narratives and Myths"
1995 Runner Up: Women's Studies Quarterly, "Working-Class Studies"
3. Best Journal Design
1981 Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies
1982 Bulletin of Research in the Humanities
1983 Queens Quarterly
1984 Queens Quarterly
1985 Rhetoric Review
1986 English Literary Renaissance
1987 Southwest Review
1988 The Gettysburg Review
1989 Planet: The Welsh Internationalist
1990 Women: A Cultural Review
1990 Honorable mentions: Prairie Schooner, American Literary History
1991 Queen's Quarterly
1991 Honorable mentions: Modern Philology, Prairie Schooner
1992 The Library Chronicle
1992 Honorable mentions: American Literature, James Joyce Quarterly, Georgia Review, Gettysburg Review, American Short Fiction
1993 VIJ: Victorians Institute Journal
1993 Runner up: Critical Inquiry
1994 Parabola
1994 Runner up: Sycamore Review
1995 The Gettysburg Review
1995 Runner up: College Literature
4. Phoenix Award for Significant Editorial Achievement
1987 Revue André Malraux
1988 Victorians Institute Journal
1989 Susquehanna University Studies
1990 John Serio, The Wallace Stevens Journal
Honorable mention: Robert
Snyder, Christianity and Literature
1991 College Literature
1991 Honorable mentions: Studies in Canadian Literature Études en littérature canadienne, Queen's Quarterly
1992 Arion
1992 Honorable mentions: Journal of Value Inquiry, Russian Review, Australian Journal of Communication, INTI
1993 Review: Latin American Literature and Arts
1993 Runner up: George Sand Review
1994 Tampa Review
1994 Runner up: Modern Language Quarterly
1995 Critical Matrix
1995 Runner Up: Hispania
5. Distinguished Retiring Editor
1981 Helmut Gerber, English Literature in Transition (posthumous)
1982 Blake Nevius, Nineteenth Century Fiction
1983 Joel Conarroe, PMLA
1984 Donald Stanford, Southern Review
1985 Lewis Simpson, Southern Review
1986 Jill Levenson, Modern Drama
1987 Philip Mitchell, Journal of English and Germanic Philology
1988 Claude Rawson, Modern Language Review and The Yearbook of English Studies
1989 Andrew Parkin
1990 John Stasny, Victorian Poetry
1991 James Wilbur, Journal for Value Inquiry
1991 Honorable Mentions: Jim Raymond, College English
1992 John W. Kronik, PMLA
1992 Honorable mentions:Frank Lentricchia, SAQ, Charles Oliver, The Hemingway Review
1993 Gary A. Olson, Journal of Advanced Composition
1993 Runner up: Richard J. Calhoun, South Carolina Review
1994 Donald Lawler, Victorians Institute Journal
1994 Runner up: Joanne Dobson, Legacy
1995 Valters Nollendorfs, Monatshefte
1995 Runner up: John Peradotto, Arethusa