Nominations for 2025 have now closed. To see the nominees, click here. Accepting a nomination implies attendance at the annual conference, where the winner will be announced at our awards ceremony. This year’s conference, SAMLA 97, is set to take place November 6th – 8th, 2025, in Atlanta, GA.
Each year, SAMLA honors two outstanding scholarly works: one monograph and one edited collection.
For the 2025 SAMLA Studies Book Awards, SAMLA is accepting nominations of books published during the 2024 calendar year in English or other modern languages in the fields of language, culture, or literature.
All authors and collection editors must have been SAMLA members for at least one year prior to nomination in order to remain eligible for this award.
Six copies of the nominated book must be received by our office by May 1, 2025. Please remit to the following address:
SAMLA
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Suite 2425
Atlanta, GA 30303
2025 Award Winner – Monograph
 Disability Works: Performance after Rehabilitation NYU Press Patrick McKelvey |
2025 Award Winners – Edited Collection
 Race in the Multiethnic Literature Classroom University of Illinois Press Edited by Christina Stanciu and Gary Totten |
SAMLA Studies Award Committees
Monograph
Robin Brooks (2025)
University of Pittsburgh
Jerod Ra’Del Hollyfield (2026)
Carson-Newman University
Leticia Pérez Alonso (2027)
Jackson State University
Lan Dong (2028)
University of Illinois Springfield
Shahara’Tova Dente (2029)
Mississippi University for Women
Edited Collections
Lynée Lewis Gaillet (2025)
Georgia State University
Ronja R. Bodola (2026)
LSU Health Sciences Center
Lidiana de Moraes (2027)
Vanderbilt University
Edwin Murillo (2028)
University of Tennessee – Chattanooga
Xinyiang Li (2029), University of Georgia
If you are interested in committee service, please contact the SAMLA office via email.
