MLA Prize for Bibliographical or Archival Scholarship Winners
2020–21
- Catherine D’Ignazio, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Lauren F. Klein, Emory University, for Data Feminism (MIT Press, 2020)
- Suzanne W. Churchill, Davidson College; Linda A. Kinnahan, Duquesne University; and Susan Rosenbaum, University of Georgia, for Mina Loy: Navigating the Avant-Garde (https://mina-loy.com/)
- Honorable mention: Sarah Chihaya, Princeton University; Merve Emre, University of Oxford; Katherine Hill, Adelphi University; and Juno Jill Richards, Yale University, for The Ferrante Letters: An Experiment in Collective Criticism (Columbia Univ. Press, 2020)
- Honorable mention: Mollie Godfrey, James Madison University, for Conversations with Lorraine Hansberry (Univ. Press of Mississippi, 2020)
2018–19
- Leah Knight, Brock University, and Wendy Wall, Northwestern University, editors for The Pulter Project: Poet in the Making (http://pulterproject.northwestern.edu/)
- Honorable mention: Gillian Pink, University of Oxford, et al., for Les œuvres complètes de Voltaire, vol. 145 (Voltaire Foundation, 2019)
2016–17
- Mark Nixon, University of Reading; Dirk Van Hulle, University of Antwerp; Pim Verhulst, University of Antwerp; E. Magessa O’Reilly, Memorial University; and Vincent Neyt, University of Antwerp, for the Beckett Digital Manuscript Project (www.beckettarchive.org)
- Honorable mention: Cait Coker, Texas A&M University, College Station, and Kate Ozment, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, for Women in Book History Bibliography (womensbookhistory.org)
2014–15
- P. Gabrielle Foreman, University of Delaware; Jim Casey, University of Delaware; and Sarah Lynn Patterson, University of Delaware, for The Colored Conventions Project team, for The Colored Conventions Project (coloredconventions.org/)
2012–13
- Roger E. Stoddard, Harvard University (emeritus), and David R. Whitesell, University of Virginia, for A Bibliographical Description of Books and Pamphlets of American Verse Printed from 1610 through 1820 (Penn State University Press for the Bibliographical Society of America, 2012)
- Thomas J. Hinnebusch, University of California, Los Angeles; Arturo Diaz, University of California, Los Angeles; and Barbara Blankenship, University of California, Los Angeles, for the UCLA Language Materials Project (http://www.lmp.ucla.edu)
2010–11
- Phyllis S. Morgan, Albuquerque, New Mexico, for N. Scott Momaday: Remembering Ancestors, Earth, and Traditions: An Annotated Bio-bibliography (Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 2010)
2008–09
- Anatoly Liberman, University of Minnesota, for A Bibliography of English Etymology: Sources and Word List (Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2009)
2006–07
- Eleanor Selfridge-Field, Stanford University, for A New Chronology of Venetian Opera and Related Genres, 1660–1760 (Stanford Univ. Press, 2007)
2004–05
- Patrick Spedding, Monash University, for A Bibliography of Eliza Haywood (Pickering and Chatto, 2004)
- Honorable Mention: James L. Harner, Texas A&M University, for World Shakespeare Bibliography Online (Johns Hopkins Univ. Press; http://www.worldshakesbib.org)
2002–03
- Bege K. Bowers, Youngstown State University, and Mark Allen, University of Texas, San Antonio, for Annotated Chaucer Bibliography, 1986–1996 (Univ. of Notre Dame Press, 2002)
2000–01
- Hamdi el-Sakkout, American University in Cairo, for The Arabic Novel: Bibliography and Critical Introduction, 1865–1995 (American Univ. in Cairo Press, 2001)
1998–99
- David W. Forbes, Honolulu, Hawai'i, for Hawai'ian National Bibliography, 1780–1900, I: 1780–1830 (Univ. of Hawai'i Press, 1999)
1996–97
- Kathleen L. Scott, Amherst, Massachusetts, for Later Gothic Manuscripts, 1390–1490, 2 vols. (Harvey Miller Publishers, 1997)
* From 1996 to 2012, the prize was known as the MLA Prize for a Distinguished Bibliography. From 2013 to 2018, it was known as the MLA Prize for a Bibliography, Archive, or Digital Project. From 2019 to 2021, it was known as the MLA Prize for Collaborative, Bibliographical, or Archival Scholarship.