Category Archives: Awards
Ricks to Receive Award at MLA
Christopher Ricks to receive distinguished scholar award from the Keats-Shelley Association of America, presented by former ALSCW president Susan Wolfson at MLA. The Keats-Shelley Association of America’s annual awards dinner (at MLA) will be held this year on Saturday January … Continue reading
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Campion Receives Larry Levis Reading Prize
Literary Imagination Editor Peter Campion has won the thirteenth annual Larry Levis Reading prize given by Virginia Commonwealth University for the best first or second book of poetry published in that year. The winning book, The Lions, was published by … Continue reading
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Gans Awarded ENDURING QUESTIONS Grant from NEH
Congratulations are in order to ALSC member Bruce Gans, who has been awarded a $15,000 Enduring Questions grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The Enduring Questions grant seeks to encourage both faculty and undergraduates to “grapple with the … Continue reading
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Christopher Ricks Receives a Knighthood
Christopher Ricks, our Immediate Past President, has been knighted for “services to Scholarship” as part of the Queen’s Birthday Honours. Others recognized this year include former British poet laureate Andrew Motion. In responding to this honor “for services to Scholarship,” … Continue reading
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Peter Campion Awarded Rome Prize
The ALSC is proud to announce that Literary Imagination editor-in-chief Peter Campion has recently been awarded the Rome Prize, bestowed by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. This prize, which entails a one-year residency at the American Academy in … Continue reading
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Daniel Hoffman Awarded L. E. Phillabaum Poetry Award
The ALSC is proud to announce that longstanding member and Former Poet Laureate Daniel Hoffman was recently awarded the L. E. Phillabaum Poetry Award for his latest collection, The Whole Nine Yards. The prize, established to honor Louisiana State University … Continue reading
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Adelaide M. Russo Wins Prize for French and Francophone Studies
We are honored to announce that Adelaide M. Russo, professor of comparative literature and French studies at Louisiana State University and contributing-level member of the ALSC, has received the sixteenth annual Aldo and Jeanna Scaglione Prize, which is awarded by … Continue reading
The First Innovations in Reading Prize, Application Now Available
A reprint of a press release of interest. Each year, the National Book Foundation will award a number of prizes of up to $2,500 each to individuals and institutions–or partnerships between the two–that have developed innovative means of creating and … Continue reading
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ALSC Members Selected as National Book Award Finalists
Three ALSC members were recently named finalists for the 2008 National Book Award for poetry: Frank Bidart for Watching the Spring Festival (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), Reginald Gibbons for Creatures of a Day (Louisiana State University Press), and Richard Howard … Continue reading
