MLA Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies Winners
2021–22
- Carmen E. Lamas, University of Virginia, for The Latino Continuum and the Nineteenth-Century Americas: Literature, Translation, and Historiography (Oxford Univ. Press, 2021)
2019–20
- Yomaira C. Figueroa-Vásquez, Michigan State University, for Decolonizing Diasporas: Radical Mappings of Afro-Atlantic Literature (Northwestern Univ. Press, 2020)
- Honorable mention: Catherine S. Ramírez, University of California, Santa Cruz, for Assimilation: An Alternative History (Univ. of California Press, 2020)
- Honorable mention: Simón Ventura Trujillo, New York University, for Land Uprising: Native Story Power and the Insurgent Horizons of Latinx Indigeneity (Univ. of Arizona Press, 2020)
2017–18
- Stephanie Fetta, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, for Shaming into Brown: Somatic Transactions of Race in Latina/o Literature (Ohio State Univ. Press, 2018)
- Licia Fiol-Matta, New York University, for The Great Woman Singer: Gender and Voice in Puerto Rican Music (Duke Univ. Press, 2017)
- Honorable mention: Leticia Alvarado, Brown University, for Abject Performances: Aesthetic Strategies in Latino Cultural Production (Duke Univ. Press, 2018)
2015–16
- Ylce Irizarry, University of South Florida, for Chicana/o and Latina/o Fiction: The New Memory of Latinidad (Univ. of Illinois Press, 2016)
2013–14
- Julie Avril Minich, University of Texas, Austin, for Accessible Citizenships: Disability, Nation, and the Cultural Politics of Greater Mexico (Temple Univ. Press, 2014)
- Honorable mention: Urayoán Noel, New York University, for In Visible Movement: Nuyorican Poetry from the Sixties to Slam (Univ. of Iowa Press, 2014)
2011–12
- Nicole M. Guidotti-Hernández, University of Texas, Austin, for Unspeakable Violence: Remapping U.S. and Mexican National Imaginaries (Duke Univ. Press, 2011)
- Honorable mention: Antonio López, George Washington University, for Unbecoming Blackness: The Diaspora Cultures of Afro-Cuban America (New York Univ. Press, 2012)
2010
- Laura G. Gutiérrez, University of Arizona, for Performing Mexicanidad: Vendidas y Cabareteras on the Transnational Stage (Univ. of Texas Press, 2010)
- Honorable mention: Genaro M. Padilla, University of California, Berkeley, for The Daring Flight of My Pen: Cultural Politics and Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá’s Historia de la Nueva Mexico, 1610 (Univ. of New Mexico Press, 2010)
2009
- Crystal Parikh, New York University, for An Ethics of Betrayal: The Politics of Otherness in Emergent U.S. Literatures and Cultures (Fordham Univ. Press, 2009)
- Honorable mention: Ramón E. Soto-Crespo, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, for Mainland Passage: The Cultural Anomaly of Puerto Rico (Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2009)
2008
- Laura Lomas, Rutgers University, Newark, for Translating Empire: José Martí, Migrant Latino Subjects, and American Modernities (Duke Univ. Press, 2008)
- Honorable mention: Sheila Marie Contreras, Michigan State University, for Blood Lines: Myth, Indigenism, and Chicana/o Literature (Univ. of Texas Press, 2008)
2007
- Antonio Viego, Duke University, for Dead Subjects: Toward a Politics of Loss in Latino Studies (Duke Univ. Press, 2007)
2006
- Alicia Arrizón, University of California, Riverside, for Queering Mestizaje: Transculturation and Performance (Univ. of Michigan Press, 2006)
- Ramón Saldívar, Stanford University, for The Borderlands of Culture: Américo Paredes and the Transnational Imaginary (Duke Univ. Press, 2006)
2005
- Ralph E. Rodriguez, Brown University, for Brown Gumshoes: Detective Fiction and the Search for Chicana/o Identity (Univ. of Texas Press, 2005)
- Honorable Mention: Michelle Habell-Pallán, University of Washington, for Loca Motion: The Travels of Chicana and Latina Popular Culture (New York Univ. Press, 2005)
2004
- Frederick Luis Aldama, Ohio State University, for Dancing with Ghosts: A Critical Biography of Arturo Islas (Univ. of California Press, 2004)
2003
- Rosa-Linda Fregoso, University of California, Santa Cruz, for MeXicana Encounters: The Making of Social Identities on the Borderlands (Univ. of California Press, 2003)
2002
- Mary Pat Brady, Cornell University, for Extinct Lands, Temporal Geographies: Chicana Literature and the Urgency of Space (Duke Univ. Press, 2002)
- Honorable mention: Raúl Homero Villa, Occidental College, for Barrio-Logos: Space and Place in Urban Chicano Literature and Culture (Univ. of Texas Press, 2000)