American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages

The American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL) is an academic organization founded in 1941. AATSEEL holds an annual conference each January and publishes the Slavic and East European Journal (SEEJ), a peer-reviewed journal of Slavic studies.[1]

AATSEEL Book Awards

Since 2000, the AATSEEL Publications Committee gives annual awards for scholarly contributions to Slavic language are given in various disciplines.

2024 Book Awards

Prize Work Winner(s)
Best First Book Aleksandr Rodchenko: Photography in the Time of Stalin Aglaya Glebova
Best Book in Literary Studies Recording Russia: Trying to Listen in the Nineteenth Century Gabriella Safran
The Svetlana Boym Best Book in Cultural Studies Russian Style: Performing Gender, Power, and Putinism Julie Cassiday
Best Edited Multi-Author Scholarly Volume World Literature in the Soviet Union (ed.) Galin Tihanov, Anne Lounsbery & Rossen Djagalov
Best Literary Translation into English Firebird (translated with intro) Alissa Valles
Best Scholarly Translation into English Babyn Yar: Ukrainian Poets Respond Ostap Kin & John Hennessy
Best Book in Pedagogy Trauma and Truth: Teaching Russian Literature on the Chechen Wars Elena Pedigo Clark
Best Book in Second Language Acquisition Russian through Film: For Intermediate to Advanced Students Anna Kudyma, Irina Six & Irina Walsh [2]

2023 Book Awards

Prize Work Winner(s)
Best Book in Cultural Studies Flowers Through Concrete: Explorations in Soviet Hippieland Juliane Fürst
Best Book in Literary Studies Blood of Others: Stalin's Crimean Atrocity and the Poetics of Solidarity Rory Finnin
Best Contribution to Language Pedagogy Pro-dvizhenie: Advanced Russian through Film and Media Alyssa DeBlasio
Best Contribution to Slavic Linguistics or Second Language Acquisition The Art of Teaching Russian Evgeny Dengub
Best First Book How the Soviet Jew Was Made Sasha Senderovich
Best Poetry Translation into English For the Shrew (trans.) Anna Sarkisovna Glazova; Alex Niemi (translator)
Best Prose Translation into English Kin Miljenko Jergović; Russell Scott Valentino (translator) [3]

2022 Book Awards

Prize Work Winner(s)
Best Book in Literary Studies Internationalist Aesthetics: China and Early Soviet Culture Edward Tyerman [4]
The Svetlana Boym Best Book in Cultural Studies Men Out of Focus Marko Dumančić [5]
Best First Book Love for Sale: Representing Prostitution in Imperial Russia Colleen Lucey
Best Edited Multi-Author Scholarly Volume Theory in the “Post” Era: A Vocabulary for the 21st-Century Conceptual Commons Alexandru Matei, Christian Moraru, and Andrei Terian
Best Translation into English Temptation Mark Baczoni (translator)
Best Book in Linguistics Language Contact in the Territory of the Former Soviet Union Diana Forker & Lenore Grenoble
Best Book in Pedagogy (1) Etazhi: Second Year Russian Language and Culture Evgeny Dengub and Susanna Nazarova
Best Book in Pedagogy (2) Transformative Language Learning and Teaching Betty Lou Leaver, Dan Davidson, and Christine Campbell
  • The committee presented two awards in the Pedagogy category in 2022, as it was skipped during 2021

2021 Book Awards

Prize Work Winner(s)
Best Book in Literary Studies Hunting Nature: Ivan Turgenev and the Organic World Thomas P. Hodge
Best Book in Cultural Studies Faster, Stronger, Higher, Comrades!: Sports, Art, and Ideology in Late Russian and Early Soviet Culture Tim Harte
Best First Book Psychomotor Aesthetics: Movement and Affect in Modern Literature and Film Ana Hedberg Olenina
Best Edited Multi-Author Scholarly Volume Comintern Aesthetics Amelia M. Glaser & Steven S. Lee
Best Literary Translation into English Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow Andrew Kahn & Irina Reyfman [6]
Best Scholarly Translation into English Permanent Evolution: Selected Essays on Literature, Theory and Film by Yuri Tynianov Ainsley Morse & Philip Redko

2020 Book Awards

Prize Work Winner(s)
Best Book in Literary Studies The Birth and Death of Literary Theory: Regimes of Relevance in Russia and Beyond Galin Tihanov
Best Book in Cultural Studies Plots Against Russia: Conspiracy and Fantasy after Socialism Eliot Borenstein [7]
Best First Book The Epistolary Art of Catherine the Great Kelsey Rubin-Detlev [8]
Best Edited Multi-Author Scholarly Volume Russian Performances: Word, Object, Action Julie Buckler, Julie Cassiday & Boris Wolfson
Best Literary Translation into English EEG: A Novel by Daša Drndić Celia Hawkesworth (trans.)
Best Contribution to Language Pedagogy Rodnaya Rech': An Introductory Course for Heritage Learners of Russian Irina Dubinina & Olesya Kisselev

2019 Book Awards

Prize Work Winner(s)
Best Book in Cultural Studies To See Paris and Die Eleonory Gilburd [9]
Best First Book State of Madness: Psychiatry, Literature, and Dissent After Stalin Rebecca Reich
Best Edited Volume Being Poland: A New History of Polish Literature and Culture since 1918 Tamara Trojanowska, Joanna Niżyńska & Przemysław Czapliński (eds.)
Best Scholarly Translation The Queen’s Court and Green Mountain Manuscripts With Other Forgeries of the Czech Revival David L. Cooper (ed. & trans.)
Best Literary Translation Pan Tadeusz: The Last Foray in Lithuania by Adam Mickiewicz Bill Johnston (trans.)
Best Contribution to Language Pedagogy Panorama Benjamin Rifkin, Evgeny Dengub & Susanna Nazarova

See also

References

  1. ^ About AATSEEL, AATSEEL, retrieved 19 September 2013
  2. ^ "KU Kudos: Faculty and staff achievements, April 2025". KU News. The University of Kansas. 4 April 2025. Retrieved 19 February 2026.
  3. ^ "Book Prize Winners for 2023". American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL). AATSEEL. 2023. Retrieved 19 February 2026.
  4. ^ "Edward Tyerman (Slavic Ph.D. '14) Awarded AATSEEL Prize for Best Book in Literary Studies". Harriman Institute. Columbia University. 19 February 2023. Retrieved 19 February 2026.
  5. ^ "WKU faculty member's book wins award". WKU News. Western Kentucky University. 23 March 2023. Retrieved 19 February 2026.
  6. ^ "Professor Kahn wins 2021 AATSEEL Book Prize". Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford. University of Oxford. 22 February 2022. Retrieved 19 February 2026.
  7. ^ "Eliot Borenstein — NYU Faculty Profile". New York University. Retrieved 19 February 2026.
  8. ^ "Kelsey Rubin-Detlev — USC Profile (AATSEEL Best First Book Award)". University of Southern California Dornsife. Retrieved 19 February 2026.
  9. ^ "To See Paris and Die: The Soviet Lives of Western Culture — AATSEEL Prize Winner". Harvard University Press. Retrieved 19 February 2026.



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