Wylie Prize in French Cultural Studies

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LAURENCE WYLIE PRIZE IN FRENCH CULTURAL STUDIES

2008-09

Created in 1995 to honor the memory of Laurence Wylie, Professor of French Civilization at Harvard University, the Laurence Wylie Prize in French Cultural Studies is awarded every second year to the best book in French social or cultural studies.  Nominated books must be scholarly essays dealing with French society or culture (any period) published in 2008 or 2009. While fiction and literary criticism are excluded, contributions may bring together literature and culture. Books may be written in English or French, but the author must reside in North America. The 2006-08 Wylie Prize was awarded to Rebecca DeRoo (Washington University) for her book The Museum Establishment and Contemporary Art: The Politics of Artistic Display in France after 1968 (Cambridge University Press, 2006).

The deadline for submissions is January 30, 2010. The prize will be announced in the spring of 2010 and awarded at NYU the following fall. Presses may submit more than one book. For further inquiries, please contact the Prize Committee Chair, Stéphane Gerson (stephane.gerson@nyu.edu).  Please send a copy of each nominated book to the members of the Prize Committee (total of four copies):

Prof. Tom Conley

Dept. of Romance Languages & Literatures

Harvard University

Boylston Hall, 4^th floor

Cambridge - MA 02138

Prof. Laurent Dubois

Professor of History and Romance Studies

205 Language Center, Box 90257

Duke University

Durham, NC 27708-0257

Prof. Stéphane Gerson

Department of French

New York University

19 University Place, 6th floor

New York, NY 10003

Prof. Brigitte Lane

c/o Dept. of Romance Languages

Rm 212 - Olin Center

Tufts University

Medford, MA O2155