AIA Book Prizes
The Association warmly invites applications for its annual AIA Junior Book Prize and AIA Book Prize. The awards are given to scholarly books written by AIA members that have made significant contributions to the field of English studies (in all its multifaceted aspects) and have been published in the three years preceding the application. These Prizes go to monograph studies or critical editions, written either in Italian or English, published in each of the following fields:
- English language and linguistics;
- Literatures in English;
- Cultural studies in English.
Conference proceedings or multi-authored volumes will not be accepted.
Requirements
AIA junior book prize
In order to be eligible, applicants must respect the following conditions:
1) they should be no older than 40;
2) they must have earned their PhD from 7 to 2 years prior to the year of application.
Furthermore, they must have been enrolled as AIA members for at least 3 consecutive years prior to the year for which the prize is awarded. For example, for 2024, they must have been paying members since 2021.
Previous winners of an AIA/Carocci PhD Doctoral Dissertation Prize, who published their thesis in book form with Carocci, cannot submit the same book for an AIA Book Prize.
AIA book prize
This prize is awarded to AIA scholars who must respect the following conditions:
1)they should be older than 40;
2)they must have earned their PhD from 8 years prior to the year of application.
They must have been enrolled as AIA members for at least 3 consecutive years prior to the year for which the prize is awarded. For example, for 2024, they must have been paying members since 2021.
Awards
These Prizes are non monetary. A medal will be offered to winners. Their books will be given due credit on the Association webpage and social media, and a short interview to winning authors will be included in the AIA Newsletter. All books will be evaluated strictly on the basis of their academic value, without regard to publisher, country of publication or nationality of the author.
At the end of the evaluation process, the Committee will select one book, but may also grant ex-aequo prizes. No honorary mention is possible.
Selection committees
These will be comprised of three AIA members, drawn from a list of volunteering tenured professors, including retired staff. The list will be made public before the deadline for 2024 applications (see below). One Committee will evaluate the applications for both book prize categories.
The AIA President and Board members cannot be part of evaluation committees.
AIA Book Prize committee members must have no personal nor professional connection to any of the applicants. In such cases, the specific Committee members will be substituted.
Committee members cannot be included in a new committee before 5 years have elapsed.
Publicity
Applicants automatically allow the AIA Board to make their names and book titles public. They will make this clear in the letter accompanying their application. The list of applications will be published on the AIA webpage and social media.
Announcements
In the years with no AIA General Conference, annual prizes will be announced during an AIA Board meeting and related event by the month of December. In years in which an AIA General Conference is to be held, prize winners will be announced on the occasion of the Conference
Prize-giving ceremonies
During AIA Conferences, there will be a prize-awarding ceremony during the General Assembly.
Application procedure
Books can be submitted in electronic format (PDF only) or in printed format. If submitted in printed format, four copies must be provided of each book submitted for consideration. The copies will not be returned.
In case the applicant opts to submit an e-book (PDF), electronic submission should be made to the AIA Vice-President and to the three members of the Commitee who will be made public before the deadline expires.
In case the applicant opts to submit a printed book, the four review copies must be sent to the AIA Vice-President and to the Committee members who will be made public before the deadline expires.
AIA PhD prizes
The prize is an annual award guaranteeing publication, sponsored by Carocci, of a doctoral dissertation in English studies. Submitted PhD doctoral dissertations must be works of original scholarly research in the field of English studies, written in English or Italian. Candidates must have been awarded their PhD in the two preceding years and must have been members of AIA for at least 3 years before the application. In case the applicant opts to submit an e-book (PDF), electronic submission should be made to the AIA Vice-President and to the three members of the Commitee who will be made public before the deadline expires.
In case the applicant opts to submit a printed book, the four review copies must be sent to the AIA Vice-President and to the Committee members who will be made public before the deadline expires.
Mandatory disclaimer
Applicants MAY NOT send their thesis for consideration to any other publisher or selection committee until the prize winners are announced. Successful applicants MAY NOT republish, even with a different title, their PhD thesis in any format or with any other publisher than Carocci or any other future AIA publisher. The covering letter must certify to this
Selection committes
These will be comprised of three AIA members, drawn from a list of volunteering tenured members. The list will be made public before the deadline for 2024 applications.
The AIA President and Board members cannot be part of evaluation committees.
AIA PhD Prize committee members must have no personal nor professional connection to any of the applicants. In such cases, the specific Committee members will be substituted.
AIA PhD Prize committee members cannot be included in a new committee before 5 years have elapsed.
Publicity
Applicants automatically allow the AIA Board to make their names and book titles public. The list of applications will be published on the AIA webpage and social media.
Announcements
In all the years with no AIA General Conference, annual prizes will be announced by December during an AIA Board meeting and related event. In years in which an AIA General Conference is to be held, prize winners will be announced on the occasion of the Conference.
Prize-giving ceremonies
During AIA Conferences, there will be a prize-awarding ceremony during the General Assembly.
Application procedure
Each candidate must send a covering letter to the AIA Vice-President, in which s/he provides the following information: name, affiliation, address, the title of the dissertation, the year in which the PhD was awarded and the year when s/he first became an AIA member. As in the previous paragraph, the letter will also certify to exclusive application and be undersigned.
Once the Selection Committee is nominated, the candidate will be informed by e-mail about its composition and will submit one review copy (paper or pdf format, as each committee member may decide) of the doctoral dissertation to each of the members of the Selection Committee, together with the same covering letter sent to the Vice-President. In addition, the candidate should also send the Committee by e-mail a letter signed by his/her main supervisor attesting to the authenticity and originality of the dissertation. Submitted copies of doctoral dissertations will not be returned.
Vice-President 2023-2025:
Marilena Parlati (marilena.parlati@unipd.it)
c/o Dipartimento di Studi Linguistici e Letterari
Università di Padova
Via Beata Vendramini, 13 35137 PADOVA
Deadlines for AIA Prizes 2024 (no General AIA Conference)
For all categories, applications must be sent by 31 May 2024.
Evaluation results will be made public by 1 December 2024.
Vice-President 2023-2025:
Marilena Parlati (marilena.parlati@unipd.it)
c/o Dipartimento di Studi Linguistici e Letterari
Università di Padova
Via Beata Vendramini, 13 35137 PADOVA
Deadlines for 2025 (Turin AIA Conference)
For all categories, applications must be sent by 1 February 2025.
Evaluation results will be made public by 1 September 2025.
Vice-President 2023-2025:
Marilena Parlati (marilena.parlati@unipd.it)
c/o Dipartimento di Studi Linguistici e Letterari
Università di Padova
Via Beata Vendramini, 13 35137 PADOVA