CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
LAURENCE WYLIE PRIZE IN FRENCH CULTURAL STUDIES
2020-2021
Created in 1995 to honor the memory of Laurence Wylie, Professor of French Civilization at Harvard University, the Laurence Wylie Prize in French Cultural Studies is awarded every second year to the best book in French cultural or social studies. Since 2017, the Prize has been administered by the faculty of NYU’s Institute of French Studies.
This year, nominated books must have been published in 2020 or 2021. Eligibility:
Nominated books must be scholarly essays dealing with French society or culture concerning any historical period. France is conceived in broad geographic terms, including the Caribbean, Africa, the Maghreb, the Indian Ocean, South and Southeast Asia, etc.
Books may be written in English or French, and book authors may be of any nationality, but the author must reside in North America.
While fiction and literary criticism are excluded, nominated books may combine literature with other disciplines.
Authors at any stage of their career may submit books. All things being equal, however, the Prize Committee will give preference to an author’s first significant book.
Essay or source collections, reeditions, etc. are not eligible.
The deadline for submissions is January 31, 2022. The prize will be announced in the spring of 2022 and awarded at NYU the following fall. Presses may submit more than one book. For further inquiries, please contact the committee chair, John Shovlin (john.shovlin@nyu.edu). The 2018-2019 Wylie Prize was awarded to Catherine Clark (History and French Studies, MIT), for her book Paris and the Cliché of History: The City and Photographs, 1860-1970 (Oxford University Press, 2018).
Please send a copy of each nominated book to the members of the Prize Committee by January 31, 2022 (total of four copies):
Catherine Clark
1200 E. California Blvd.
MC 101-40
Pasadena, CA 91125
Jennifer Johnson
4 Lorimer Avenue
Providence, RI 02906
Kathryn Kleppinger
1264 Hamlin St. NE
Washington, DC 20017
John Shovlin (non-voting Chair)
125 Pearl Street
Cambridge MA 02139-4007