AATI Book Award
2023 Competition
The Book Award Committee will make the awards in the following categories:
- Award for Performance and Visual Culture (includes media, theatre, art history, film)
- Award for Literary, Critical Theory, and Cultural Studies
- Award for First Book
Participation:
In order to participate in the competition, authors must be members of the AATI two years prior to entry. Eligible are single-authored monographs that focus on any theme related to Italian Studies in English or Italian. In order to qualify in the competition, the first edition/printing of the books must have occurred within two years prior to the competition year (i.e. the 2023 competition is for books published from 2022-2023). Books may only be submitted once for consideration. If an author chooses to enter their book into the First Book competition, they are kindly requested to include a CV with complete list of publications. Multi-authored works, translations, textbooks, creative writings, and edited volumes will not be considered.
Award:
The AATI Book Awards consist of a cash award of $500 and a certificate.
Submission:
To enter a book into the competition, authors or publishers should send four print copies (or bound photocopies if the publisher cannot spare additional copies) along with a letter identifying the work by Friday, June16.
Print copies should be sent to:
Prof. Ryan Calabretta-Sajder
2028 W. Lawson St.
Fayetteville, AR 72703
Questions: Contact the committee chairperson, Mark Pietralunga: mpietralunga@fsu.edu
2022 Book Award Winners!
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2022 Book Awards
Category | Winner | Book Title |
Performance and Visual Culture | Mary Ann McDonald Carolan |
Orienting Italy: China through the Lens of Italian Filmmakers |
Literary, Critical Theory, and Cultural Studies | Massimo Scalabrini | Commedia e civiltà: Dinamiche anticonflittuali nella letteratura italiana del Cinquecento |
First Book Award | Daniela D’Eugenio |
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2021 Book Awards
Category | Winner | Book Title |
Medieval – Early Modern Literature | Guy P. Raffa | Dante’s Bones: How a Poet Invented Italy |
18th – Present (including Film Studies) | Clorinda Donato | The Life and Legend of Catterina Vizzani: Sexual Identity, Science and Sensationalism in Eighteenth-Century Italy and England |