CALLFOR SUBMISSIONS
LAURENCEWYLIE 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 WyliePrize in French Cultural Studies is awarded every second year to the best bookin French social or cultural studies. Nominated books must be scholarlyessays dealing with French society or culture (any period) published in 2008 or2009. While fiction and literarycriticism are excluded, contributions may bring together literature andculture. Books may be written in Englishor French, but the author must reside in North America. The 2006-08 WyliePrize was awarded to Rebecca DeRoo (Washington University) for her book TheMuseum Establishment and Contemporary Art: The Politics of Artistic Display inFrance after 1968 (Cambridge University Press, 2006).
The deadline for submissions is January 30, 2010. The prize will be announced in the spring of2010 and awarded at NYU the following fall. Presses may submit more than one book. For further inquiries, please contact thePrize 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, 4th 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. BrigitteLane
c/o Dept. of Romance Languages
Rm 212 - Olin Center
Tufts University
Medford, MA O2155