
December 5, 2025
Modern Language Association Prize for a First Book Winners
2024
- Joseph Albernaz, Columbia University, for Common Measures: Romanticism and the Groundlessness of Community (Stanford Univ. Press, 2024)
- Shortlisted: Laura E. Helton, University of Delaware, Newark, for Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History (Columbia Univ. Press, 2024)
- Shortlisted: Naomi Levine, Yale University, for The Burden of Rhyme: Victorian Poetry, Formalism, and the Feeling of Literary History (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2024)
- Shortlisted: Mary Zaborskis, Penn State University, Harrisburg, for Queer Childhoods: Institutional Futures of Indigeneity, Race, and Disability (New York Univ. Press, 2024)
See the list of winners on the MLA site.
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