The Western Literature Association’s Past Presidents
Invite Nominations
for the
Thomas J. Lyon Book Award
in Western American Literary and Cultural Studies
Forty-three
years after the founding of the Western Literature Association and Western
American Literature, scholarship of the literary West is thriving
in both quantity and quality. To honor outstanding, single-author
scholarly books on the literature and culture of the American West,
the Western Literature Association announces the tenth annual Thomas
J. Lyon Book Award. Books qualifying for this monetary award will
have a 2009 publication
date.
TO QUALIFY FOR THIS AWARD, BOOKS MUST
- have a 2009 publication
date
- be an outstanding, single-author, book-length study on the literature and culture of the American West
TO NOMINATE A BOOK FOR THIS AWARD
send a statement of support and three copies of the book by May
20, 2010
to
William R. Handley
Department of English
Taper Hall of the Humanities 404
University of Southern California
Los Angeles CA 90089-0354
If you have questions, please e-mail handley@usc.edu.
| 2009 Award Recipient: Tom Lynch, Xerophelia: Ecocritical Explorations in Southwestern Literature |
| 2008 Award Recipient: Robert McKee Irwin, Bandits, Captives, Heroines, and Saints: Cultural Icons of Mexico's Northwest Borderlands |
| 2007 Award Recipient: John-Michael Rivera, The Emergence of Mexican America: Recovering Stories of Mexican Peoplehood in US Culture |
| 2006 Award Recipient: David Dorado Romo, Ringside Seat to a Revolution: An Underground Cultural History of El Paso and Juárez 1893-1923 |
| 2005 Award Recipient: Stephanie LeMenager, Manifest and Other Destinies: Territorial Fictions of the Nineteenth-Century United States (University of Nebraska Press, 2004)
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2004 Award Recipient:
Nathaniel Lewis, Unsettling the Literary West: Authenticity and Authorship (University of Nebraska Press, 2003) |
2003 Award Recipient:
Audrey Goodman, Translating Southwestern Landscapes: The Making of an Anglo Literary Region (University of Arizona Press, 2002) |
2002 Award Recipient:
James M. Cahalan, Edward Abbey: A Life (University of Arizona Press, 2001) |
2001 Award Recipient:
Gary Scharnhorst, Bret Harte: Opening the American Literary West (University of Oklahoma Press, 2000) |
2000 Award Recipient:
Susan Rosowski, Birthing a Nation: Gender, Creativity, and the West in American Literature (University of Nebraska Press, 1999) |
1999 Award Recipient:
Thomas Pilkington, State of Mind: Texas Literature and Culture (Texas A&M University Press, 1998) |
1998 Award Recipient:
Andrew Elkins, The Great Poem of the Earth: A Study of the Poetry of Thomas Hornsby Ferril (University of Idaho Press, 1997) |
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