Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Italian Studies
Competition in 2025 for Books Published in 2024
Open Only to Members of the Association
The Committee on Honors and Awards of the Modern Language Association invites authors to enter the competition for the thirteenth Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Italian Studies. The prize, established by the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Endowment Fund, is awarded each odd-numbered year to the author of an outstanding scholarly book on any phase of Italian literature or culture or comparative literature involving Italian. This shall include works that study literary or cultural theory, science, history, art, music, society, politics, cinema, and linguistics, preferably but not necessarily relating other disciplines to literature. For the next competition, the committee solicits submission of works published in 2024 by current members of the association. The Scaglione Prize for Italian Studies, which consists of a cash award and a certificate, will be presented to the winning author at the association's annual convention in January 2026.
Authors or publishers who wish to submit a work are asked to fill out a submission form.
- If you are an author submitting a work, please use this form.
- If you are a publisher submitting a work, please use this form.
Publishers may submit more than one title. Provided they meet eligibility requirements, books entered in this competition may also compete for one of the following prizes: the James Russell Lowell Prize or the MLA Prize for a First Book, or the MLA Prize for an Edited Collection. Entries may be submitted at any time but must be received by 1 May 2025. The winning author will be contacted in September, and a public announcement will be made in early December. Because of the volume of submissions, we regret that we are unable to contact each entrant individually.
For further information, write the coordinator of book prizes (awards@mla.org).
Note: From 1996 to 2000, the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Italian Literary Studies was awarded jointly with the Howard R. Marraro Prize, which is now awarded separately in even-numbered years.
Past winners of this prize