Distinguished Editor Award
Any editor is eligible. The editor must be nominated by the new editor or by a member of the current or past editorial board. Supporting documentation may include any of the following: other letters of nomination by colleagues familiar with the editor's work; a brief CV in narrative format highlighting aspects of the editorship; selected sample issues of the journal illustrating key qualities of the editor's work; any other materials that can demonstrate the editor's influence on the journal's field of scholarship.
2023 (co-winners): Tani Barlow, positions: asia critique, and Paul Bové, boundary 2
2022: Tina Chen, Verge: Studies in Global Asias
2021: Jean Lee Cole, American Periodicals
2020: Zong-qi Cai, editor of Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture; Prism: Theory and Modern Chinese Literature; the Lingnan Journal of Chinese Studies
2019: Chon A. Noriega, editor of Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies
2018: Susan Green, Huntington Library Quarterly
2017: Laura Stevens, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature
2016: David Scott, Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
2015: John Bryant, Leviathan
2013: Nicholas L. Sturgeon, Philosophical Review
2012: Robert L. Patten, SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900
2011: John Serio, Wallace Stevens Journal
2010: Peter Holquist and Michael David-Fox, Kritika
2009: Ralph Cohen, New Literary History
2008: Ronald Bayor, Journal of American Ethnic History
2007: George D. Greenia, La Corónica and Holly Laird, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature; Honorable Mention: Rick Emmerson, Speculum
2006: Carolyn Dinshaw and David Halperin, GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies; Runner-Up: Donald G. Davis, Libraries & Culture; Honorable Mention: Marianne Hirsch, PMLA
2005: Joe Weixlmann, African American Review; Runner-up: Raquel Chang-Rodriguez, Colonial Latin American Review
2004: Eva-Marie Kröller, Canadian Literature
2002: Walter Cummins, Literary Review: An International Journal of Contemporary Writing
2000: Joseph T. Skerrett, Jr., MELUS
1999: Cathy N. Davidson, American Literature
1998: Henry W. Johnstone, Philosophy and Rhetoric
1997: Joseph M. Schwartz, Renascence
1996: Robert C. Post, Technology and Culture
1995: Valters Nollendorfs, Monatshefte; Runner up: John Peradotto, Arethusa
1994: Donald Lawler, Victorians Institute Journal; Runner-up: Joanne Dobson, Legacy
1993: Gary A. Olson, Journal of Advanced Composition; Runner-up: Richard J. Calhoun, South Carolina Review
1992: John W. Kronik, PMLA; Honorable mentions: Frank Lentricchia, SAQ; Charles Oliver, The Hemingway Review
1991: James Wilbur, Journal for Value Inquiry; Honorable Mention: Jim Raymond, College English
1990: John Stasny, Victorian Poetry
1989: Andrew Parkin
1988: Claude Rawson, Modern Language Review and The Yearbook of English Studies
1987: Philip Mitchell, Journal of English and Germanic Philology
1986: Jill Levenson, Modern Drama
1985: Lewis Simpson, Southern Review
1984: Donald Stanford, Southern Review
1983: Joel Conarroe, PMLA
1982: Blake Nevius, Nineteenth Century Fiction
1981: Helmut Gerber, English Literature in Transition (posthumous)