Naomi Levine is Shortlisted for the MLA Prize for a First Book: The Burden of Rhyme

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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