Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for French and Francophone Studies Winners
2022
- Michael Lucey, University of California, Berkeley, for What Proust Heard: Novels and the Ethnography of Talk (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2022)
2021
- Jill Jarvis, Yale University, for Decolonizing Memory: Algeria and the Politics of Testimony (Duke Univ. Press, 2021)
- Honorable mention: Megan Moore, University of Missouri, Columbia, for The Erotics of Grief: Emotions and the Construction of Privilege in the Medieval Mediterranean (Cornell Univ. Press, 2021)
2020
- Christy Wampole, Princeton University, for Degenerative Realism: Novel and Nation in Twenty-First-Century France (Columbia Univ. Press, 2020)
- Honorable mention: Judith G. Coffin, University of Texas, Austin, for Sex, Love, and Letters: Writing Simone de Beauvoir (Cornell Univ. Press, 2020)
- Honorable mention: Alyce Mahon, University of Cambridge, for The Marquis de Sade and the Avant-Garde (Princeton Univ. Press, 2020)
2019
- Katie Chenoweth, Princeton University, for The Prosthetic Tongue: Printing Technology and the Rise of the French Language (Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 2019)
- Maya Angela Smith, University of Washington, for Senegal Abroad: Linguistic Borders, Racial Formations, and Diasporic Imaginaries (Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 2019)
2018
- Diana Holmes, University of Leeds, for Middlebrow Matters: Women’s Reading and the Literary Canon in France since the Belle Époque (Liverpool Univ. Press, 2018)
2017
- George Hoffmann, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, for Reforming French Culture: Satire, Spiritual Alienation, and Connection to Strangers (Oxford Univ. Press, 2017)
2016
- Andrew Joseph Counter, University of Oxford, for The Amorous Restoration: Love, Sex, and Politics in Early Nineteenth-Century France (Oxford Univ. Press, 2016)
- Maurice Samuels, Yale University, for The Right to Difference: French Universalism and the Jews (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2016)
2015
- Hannah Freed-Thall, Brown University, for Spoiled Distinctions: Aesthetics and the Ordinary in French Modernism (Oxford Univ. Press, 2015)
2014
- Irving Goh, University of Cambridge, for The Reject: Community, Politics, and Religion after the Subject (Fordham Univ. Press, 2014)
2013
- Valérie Loichot, Emory University, for The Tropics Bite Back: Culinary Coups in Caribbean Literature (Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2013)
2012
- Christopher Braider, University of Colorado, Boulder, for The Matter of Mind: Reason and Experience in the Age of Descartes (Univ. of Toronto Press, 2012)
2011
- Larry F. Norman, University of Chicago, for The Shock of the Ancient: Literature and History in Early Modern France (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2011)
- Honorable mention: Louisa Mackenzie, University of Washington, Seattle, for The Poetry of Place: Lyric, Landscape, and Ideology in Renaissance France (Univ. of Toronto Press, 2011)
2010
- John Culbert, University of British Columbia, for Paralyses: Literature, Travel, and Ethnography in French Modernity (Univ. of Nebraska Press, 2010)
2009
- Maurice Samuels, Yale University, for Inventing the Israelite: Jewish Fiction in Nineteenth-Century France (Stanford Univ. Press, 2009)
2008
- Willa Z. Silverman, Penn State University, University Park, for The New Bibliopolis: French Book Collectors and the Culture of Print, 1880–1914 (Univ. of Toronto Press, 2008)
- Honorable mention: Dawn Fulton, Smith College, for Signs of Dissent: Maryse Condé and Postcolonial Criticism (Univ. of Virginia Press, 2008)
2007
- Adelaide M. Russo, Louisiana State University, for Le peintre comme modèle du surréalisme à l'extrême contemporain (Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 2007)
2006
- Lawrence D. Kritzman, editor, Dartmouth College, for The Columbia History of Twentieth-Century French Thought (Columbia Univ. Press, 2006)
- Honorable Mention: Sharon Kinoshita, University of California, Santa Cruz, for Medieval Boundaries: Rethinking Difference in Old French Literature (Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 2006)
2005
- Karen Sullivan, Bard College, for Truth and the Heretic: Crises of Knowledge in Medieval French Literature (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2005)
2004
- Jeffrey N. Peters, University of Kentucky, for Mapping Discord: Allegorical Cartography in Early Modern French Writing (Univ. of Delaware Press, 2004)
- Honorable mention: Jack I. Abecassis, Pomona College, for Albert Cohen: Dissonant Voices (Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2004)
2003
- R. Howard Bloch, Yale University, for The Anonymous Marie de France (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2003)
- Honorable mention: Réda Bensmaïa, Brown University, for Experimental Nations; or, The Invention of the Maghreb (Princeton Univ. Press, 2003)
2002
- Joan DeJean, University of Pennsylvania, for The Reinvention of Obscenity: Sex, Lies, and Tabloids in Early Modern France (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2002)
2001
- Melanie C. Hawthorne, Texas A&M University, College Station, for Rachilde and French Women's Authorship: From Decadence to Modernism (Univ. of Nebraska Press, 2001)
- Honorable mention: Michèle Longino, Duke University, for Orientalism in French Classical Drama (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2001)
2000
- Timothy Hampton, University of California, Berkeley, for Literature and Nation in the Sixteenth Century: Inventing Renaissance France (Cornell Univ. Press, 2000)
1999
- Margaret Cohen, New York University, for The Sentimental Education of the Novel (Princeton Univ. Press, 1999)
- Philip Watts, University of Pittsburgh, for Allegories of the Purge: How Literature Responded to the Postwar Trials of Writers and Intellectuals in France (Stanford Univ. Press, 1999)
1998
- George Hoffmann, Boston University, for Montaigne's Career (Oxford Univ. Press, 1999)
1997
- Suzanne Guerlac, Emory University, for Literary Polemics: Bataille, Sartre, Valéry, Breton (Stanford Univ. Press, 1997)
- Kathryn A. Hoffmann, University of Hawaii, Manoa, for Society of Pleasures: Interdisciplinary Readings in Pleasure and Power during the Reign of Louis XIV (St. Martin's Press, 1997)
1996
- Lynn A. Higgins, Dartmouth College, for New Novel, New Wave, New Politics: Fiction and the Representation of History in Postwar France (Univ. of Nebraska Press, 1996)
1995
- Cynthia J. Brown, University of California, Santa Barbara, for Poets, Patrons, and Printers: Crisis of Authority in Late Medieval France (Cornell Univ. Press, 1995)
- Helen Solterer, Duke University, for The Master and Minerva: Disputing Women in French Medieval Culture (Univ. of California Press, 1995)
1994
- Janet L. Beizer, University of Virginia, for Ventriloquized Bodies: Narratives of Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century France (Cornell Univ. Press, 1994)
1993
- Thomas M. Kavanagh, University of California, Berkeley, for Enlightenment and the Shadows of Chance (Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1993)
1992
- Jody Enders, University of California, Santa Barbara, for Rhetoric and the Origins of Medieval Drama (Cornell Univ. Press, 1992)