Rob Kroes Publication Award

EAAS Rob Kroes Publication Award

Call for Manuscript Submissions ~ Closing Date:
Jan. 30
th
, 2017.

2024 EAAS Rob Kroes Publication Award

The 2024 Rob Kroes Book Award has been awarded to Elena Furlanetto for her manuscript  “Ambiguity: Dis/Ambiguated Texts and Selves in North America: 1643-1883”.
An honorary mention goes to Francesco Bacci for his manuscript "Racial Conflicts in Academia: Black Campus Novels."

 

EAAS ROB KROES PUBLICATION AWARD

The Rob Kroes Book Award for 2022 has been awarded to Tuula Kolehmainen for her manuscript "'Like Men They Stood': Black Male Vulnerability in Fiction Written by African American Women.”

  

Previous awards

The Rob Kroes Book Award for 2021 has been awarded to Giulia Crisanti for her manuscript “Europeans Are Lovin’ it? Coca Cola, McDonald’s, and the Responses to American Global Business in Italy and France, 1886-2015.”

The Rob Kroes Book Award for 2020 has been awarded to:

Pia Wiegmink for “Reconfiguring the Nation: Transnationalism and Gender in Nineteenth-Century American Abolitionist Literature”

The manuscript provides a fresh assessment of classic material through an interdisciplinary, transnational, gendered lens and adds dimension and texture to understandings of American abolitionist writing by pushing its boundaries beyond the US and onto the global stage.

Martina Mastandrea for “F. Scott Fitzgerald on Silent Film”

The manuscript does a highly competent job of bringing everything that is known about the silent film adaptations of Fitzgerald’s works together into one readable and entertaining body of work.

 

The winner of the 2015 EAAS Rob Kroes Publication Award was Dr. Ahu Tanrisever for Fathers, Warriors, and Vigilantes: Post-Heroism and the U.S. Cultural Imaginary in the Twenty-First Century, now vol. 10, 2016 (Rob Kroes Publication Award 2015), xvi +273p., ISBN 978-3-8253-6578-3, € 39 (also as e-book).

 

The 2013 EAAS Rob Kroes biennial Publication Award for the best book manuscript in American Studies went to Andrew S. Gross for The Pound Reaction: Liberalism and Lyricism in Midcentury American Literature, now vol. 7, 2015 (Rob Kroes Publication Award 2013). viii + 262p., ISBN 978-3-8253-6470-0, € 36. Order on line (also as e-book).

 

The 2011 EAAS Rob Kroes biennial Publication Award went to Dr Frank Mehring (John F. Kennedy Institut, Freie Universität Berlin) for The Democratic Gap: Transcultural Confrontations of German Immigrants and the Promise of American Democracy. It is now vol. 5 (2014) of the series European Views of the United States. xxiv, 403 p., 38 unpag. color plates, ISBN 978-3-8253-6170-9, € 50.Order on line (also e-book)

 

The 2009 Kroes Prize winner was Astrid Franke of the University of Tübingen, Germany. It was published as vol. 2 vol. 2, 2010 of the series European Views of the United States. xiv, 281 p., ISBN 978-8253-5751-1, € 39.

 

Franke Cover The Democratic Gap The Pound Reaction - cover   9783825365783  

See the section "EAAS Biennial Conference Volumes and Other EAAS Publications" for details.