Call for Nominations:

2024 SSAG Award for Best Scholarly Monograph on the American Gothic

The recently-launched Society for the Study of the American Gothic (SSAG) invites nominations for its inaugural Award for Best Scholarly Monograph. This award is open to all scholarly monographs published in the past two years that focus on some aspect of the American Gothic. The winner of the award will be announced at the Society for the Study of the American Gothic business meeting, at the American Literature Association conference in May 2024 (exact date TBA).

Eligibility
This award is open to all scholarly monographs that focus on some aspect of the American Gothic in its many forms. To be considered, nominations must be book-length monographs (no edited volumes), and have a 2022 or 2023 first edition publication date.

Nominations
Nominations should be submitted using the online nominations form. ( https://forms.gle/SC4faAbtV93iP13Q6 )  Anyone is welcome to nominate a book (authors, publishers, others), though nominators are advised to coordinate with publishers/authors to supply copies of books to the awards committee. Electronic copies of books are strongly encouraged.

Deadline
All nominations must be submitted by Friday, January 5, 2024. No nominations will be accepted after this date.

Please direct any questions to the chair of the SSAG Awards committee, Tom Hillard, at thomashillard@boisestate.edu

For more information about the Society for the Study of the American Gothic, please visit https://americangothicsociety.com/