Aldridge Prize:
Winner: Allison Gibeily, Aleppo’s Other Storybooks: Scottish Physicians, Maronite Ḥakawātīs, and Improvisational Literature
Bernheimer Prize:
Winner: Melissa Karp, An Enemy Within: Imagining the Collaborator in Transwar France and Korea
Honorable Mention: Tianyun Hua, Coolie Crossings: Transnational Labor Migration and Modern Chinese Literature, 1900-1949
Frenz Prize:
Winner: Anh Nguyen, Routing South-South Solidarity: Vietnam-Palestine, Third World Travel Narratives, and Subaltern Internationalisms
Honorable Mention: Alya Ansari, Fear and Self-Loathing: The Call Center in Contemporary Fiction
Honorable Mention: Ruoshui Zhang, From Technological Subject to Ecological Self: Towards a Daoist Poetics in Wallace Stevens’ “A Rabbit as King of the Ghosts”
Levin Prize:
Winner: Stephanie Bosch Santana, Forms of Mobility: Genre, Language, and Media in African Literary Cultures
Presidential Undergraduate Prize:
Winner: Diana Deng, Between China and Chile: Transpacific Cultural Diplomacy and Poetic Collaboration in the 1960s
Wellek Prize, Monograph:
Winner: Bruce Robbins, Atrocity: A Literary History
Honorable Mention: Kyla Wazana Tompkins, Deviant Matter: Ferment, Intoxicants, Jelly, Rot
Wellek Prize, Edited Collection:
Winner: Marlene L. Daut and Kaiama L. Glover, A History of Haitian Literature
Honorable Mention: Philip Gleissner and Bradley A. Gorski, Red Migrations: Transnational Mobility and Leftist Culture after 1917
Tartar Subvention:
Winner: Rijuta Mehta, Speculative Struggles: Anticolonial Agency and Indian Visual Archives, 1857–1947
Winner: Kalyan Nadiminti, Unendurable Freedom: US Empire and Postcolonial Literature After 9/11
Winner: Erika Rodriguez, Eugenics Before Eugenics: Disability, Degeneration, and Futurity in Modern Spain
If you heard an outstanding presentation by a graduate student at the 2026 Annual Meeting, consider nominating the paper for the Horst Frenz Prize, awarded to the best paper presented by a graduate student at the annual meeting of the ACLA. You'll find additional details and the nomination form on our website. If you're unsure of a name or paper title, please check the online schedule or program PDF.