The Pacific Coast Philology Outstanding Article Award was established in 2017 to celebrate the most innovative, enlightening, and engaging peer-reviewed essays published in PAMLA’s Pacific Coast Philology journal. The award is PAMLA’s way of acknowledging the impressive quality of scholarship published in our journal. We encourage all PAMLA members (and non-members) to submit to our Pacific Coast Philology today!
The annual selection process for the award is lead by PAMLA’s Executive Director or a leader of the association, and includes a judging committee made up of PAMLA members from different disciplines. The committee discusses and deliberates on the merits of the eligible works, and by the end of each year decides on one or two winners.
Congratulations to our Pacific Coast Philology Outstanding Article Award winners (some of these essays are free to read, thanks to Penn State University Press):
- 2023: John Schwetman, “Out in the Street with Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Pinsky”
- 2023 Honorable Mention: Aili Zheng, “Kafka, Jones, and Michelangelo: From Adam to Josef K.”
- 2023 Honorable Mention: James Aubrey, “‘I Want to Be a Society Vampire’: Rudyard Kipling and the New Woman Vampire, 1897–1931”
- 2022: Magdalen Ki, “From Pride and Prejudice to Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Recognition or Radicalization”
- 2022: Judith Saunders, “Punch Lines, Punching Bags, and Mr. Punch: The Villainous Comic Jesters of Harold Pinter’s Short Political Plays”
- 2022 Honorable Mention: David John Boyd and Julie Briand-Boyd, “Glasgow Smiles Better: A Response to Frank Quitely’s Portraiture and The Kelvin Hall Clown (2019)”
- 2021: Stanley Orr, “Taft’s Chair, Serra Cross, and Other Props: Mission Revival Hospitality Pageants with Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft, 1899-1909”
- 2021: Steven Gould Axelrod, “Gingsberg’s Brinksmanship”
- 2020: Leila Silvana May, “All the Reflected Light We Cannot See: (Ghastly) Mirror Imagery in Victorian Fiction”
- 2020 Honorable Mention: Chloe Allmand, “‘Boy, Girl, You Are a Sword’: Male Viewer to Female Character Cross-Gender Identification in Game of Thrones”
- 2019: Kathryn Stevenson, “‘Felons, Not Families’: U.S. Immigration Policies and the Construction of an American Underclass”
- 2019: Jeremiah B. Axelrod, “Mutiny on the Sofa: Historical Patterns of Patriarchy and Family Structure in American Science Fiction, 1945–2018”
- 2018: Alix Mazuet, “The French Revolution and the Dismantlement of the Old Regime’s Private Libraries”