Biennial Prizes with Competitions in 2025
For detailed announcements of these awards, click on the prize name below or write the MLA, 85 Broad Street, New York, NY 10004 (awards@mla.org).
Kenneth W. Mildenberger Prize
Deadline: 1 May 2025.
Definition: For a work in the fields of language, culture, literacy, or literature with strong application to the teaching of languages other than English.
Eligibility: Books published in 2023 or 2024; authors need not be members of the MLA.
Copies required: Four print copies and electronic access.
MLA Prize for a Scholarly Edition
Deadline: 1 May 2025.
Definition: For an outstanding scholarly edition. Editions may be in single or multiple volumes.
Eligibility: At least one volume must have been published in 2023 or 2024; editors need not be members of the MLA.
Copies required: Four print copies and electronic access.
Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Scholarly Study of Literature
Deadline: 1 May 2025.
Definition: For an outstanding translation into English of a book-length work of literary history, literary criticism, philology, or literary theory.
Eligibility: Books published in 2023 or 2024; translators need not be members of the MLA.
Copies required: Four print copies and electronic access.
This prize has been endowed by the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Endowment Fund.
Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Slavic Languages and Literatures
Deadline: 1 May 2025.
Definition: For an outstanding scholarly work on the linguistics or literatures of the Slavic languages.
Eligibility: Books published in 2023 or 2024; authors need not be members of the MLA.
Copies required: Four print copies and electronic access.
This prize has been endowed by the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Endowment Fund.
Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Italian Studies
Deadline: 1 May 2025.
Definition: For an outstanding scholarly work on any phase of Italian literature or culture or comparative literature involving Italian.
Eligibility: Books must be published in 2024; authors must be members of the MLA.
Copies required: Four print copies and electronic access.
This prize has been endowed by the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Endowment Fund.
MLA Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies
Deadline: 1 May 2025.
Definition: For an outstanding scholarly study in any language of United States Latina and Latino or Chicana and Chicano literature or culture.
Eligibility: Books published in 2023 or 2024; authors must be current members of the MLA.
Copies required: Four print copies and electronic access.
MLA Prize for an Edited Collection
Deadline: 1 May 2025.
Definition: For an outstanding edited collection in the field of English or other modern languages and literatures.
Eligibility: Books published in 2023 or 2024; editors must be current members of the MLA, but contributors need not be.
Copies required: Four print copies and electronic access.