Teaching Literature Book Award

The Teaching Literature Book Award is an international, juried prize for the best book on teaching literature at the post-secondary or graduate level. The award was created in 2014 by the faculty in the graduate programs in English and the Teaching of English in the Department of English and Philosophy at Idaho State University. It continues to be overseen and conferred by this faculty. The prize is conferred in odd numbered years, and the inaugural award was conferred in 2015. The winning book is honored with a national award and the prize winning author or editor is invited to Idaho State University to give a talk and a training for graduate students in English and other interested members of the campus and wider community.
Winners
2015 Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz and Fiona McHardy, From Abortion to Pederasty: Addressing Difficult Topics in the Classics Classroom (Ohio State UP, 2014)
Jurors
The award is refereed by scholars with experience in the field of university-level pedagogy.
The 2015 Award Committee:
* Tanya Agathocleous, Associate Professor of English, Hunter College, CUNY, and coeditor (with Ann C. Dean) of Teaching Literature: A Companion (Palgrave 2003);
* Jennifer Holberg, Professor of English, Calvin College, and founding coeditor of the journal Pedagogy;
* Steven Lynn, Louise Fry Scudder Professor of English, University of South Carolina, and author of Texts and Contexts (Longman, multiple editions); The Cambridge Introduction to Rhetoric and Composition (Cambridge UP, 2010); and Literature: Reading and Writing with Critical Strategies (Longman, 2012).
The 2017 Award Committee:
* Jesse Matz, William P. Rice Professor of English and Literature, Kenyon College, author of “Perspective” in Options for Teaching Narrative Theory (MLA 2010) and co-author of “Small College, World Literature” (Pedagogy 2015);
* Tison Pugh, Professor of English, University of Central Florida, coeditor of Approaches to Teaching Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde and the Shorter Poems (MLA 2007) and co-author of Literary Studies: A Practical Guide (Routledge, 2014); and
* Laura Wright, Professor of English, Western Carolina University, and lead editor of Approaches to Teaching Coetzee's Disgrace and Other Works (MLA, 2014).
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