Previous Book Award Winners

The MMLA Book Award

The MMLA would like to congratulate the 2025 Book Award winner, Patrick McKelvey for his book Disability Works: Performance after Rehabilitation. 

 

Previous Winners

MMLA Convention Publication Category Scholar(s) Title of Award-Winning Book
2025 Scholarly Patrick McKelvey, University of Pittsburgh Disability Works: Performance after Rehabilitation
2024 Creative

Jennifer Chukwu, University of Chicago

Amina Gautier, University of Miami

The Unfortunates

The Best That You Can Do
2023 Scholarly Justine S. Murison, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Faith in Exposure: Privacy and Secularism in the Nineteenth-Century United States
2022 Creative Eds. Donald G. Evans and Robin Metz, with a Foreword by Carlo Rotella Wherever I'm At: An Anthology of Chicago Poetry
2021 Scholarly Leah Milne, the University of Indianapolis Novel Subjects: Authorship as Radical Self-Care in Multiethnic American Narratives
2019 Creative Derrick Spires, Cornell University The Practice of Citizenship: Black Politics and Print Culture in the Early United States