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)