Modern Language Association Conference 2023
In addition to our booth in the MLA exhibit hall, we offer this virtual space to showcase our new authors, award-winning books, and highlights from the last year of Literary Studies at SUP.
Virtual Exhibit
Announcing new books, published in the last year. We’re offering 30% off these and other recent SUP Literary Studies titles with discount code S23XMLA-FM through our virtual exhibit ».
Recent Award Winners
UNESCO and the Fate of the Literary »
Sarah Brouillette
- Shortlisted in the 2020 ASAP Book Prize, sponsored by the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (ASAP).
Reading the Obscene: Transgressive Editors and the Class Politics of US Literature »
Jordan Carroll
- Winner of the 2022 MLA Prize for Independent Scholars, sponsored by the Modern Language Association (MLA).
Susan A. Crane
- Bronze Medal (tie) in the 2021 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPYs) – History (World) category, sponsored by the Independent Publisher Book Awards.
It Could Lead to Dancing: Mixed-Sex Dancing and Jewish Modernity »
Sonia Gollance
- Finalist of the 2021 National Jewish Book Awards, Modern Jewish Thought & Experience category, sponsored by the Jewish Book Council.
- Winner of the 2022 Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Title, sponsored by the American Library Association.
Prose of the World: Denis Diderot and the Periphery of Enlightenment »
Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht
- Bronze Medal (tie) in the 2022 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPYs) – History (World) Category.
- Winner of the 2022 Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Title, sponsored by the American Library Association.
Christine Hong
- Finalist Mention in the 2021 Lora Romero First Book Prize, sponsored by the American Studies Association (ASA/ASTA).
- Winner of the 2022 Award for Best Book in Humanities & Cultural Studies: Literary Studies, sponsored by the Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS).
The Converso’s Return: Conversion and Sephardi History in Contemporary Literature and Culture »
Dalia Kandiyoti
- Finalist in the 2020 National Jewish Book Awards, Sephardic Culture category, sponsored by the Jewish Book Council.
Giving Form to an Asian and Latinx America »
Long Le-Khac
- Honorable Mention in the 2022 Award for Best Book in Humanities & Cultural Studies: Literary Studies, sponsored by the Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS).
Stepchildren of the Shtetl: The Destitute, Disabled, and Mad of Jewish Eastern Europe, 1800-1939 »
Natan M. Meir
- Finalist in the 2020 National Jewish Book Awards (History category), sponsored by the Jewish Book Council.
- Honorable Mention in the 2021 DHA Outstanding Book Award, sponsored by the Disability History Association.
- Winner of the 2021 Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Title, sponsored by the American Library Association.
Before Trans: Three Gender Stories from Nineteenth-Century France »
Rachel Mesch
- Finalist in the 2020 American Library in Paris Book Award, sponsored by the American Library in Paris.
- Silver Medal in the 2021 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPYs) – LGBTQ+ Non-Fiction category, sponsored by the Independent Publisher Book Awards.
The Last Years of Karl Marx: An Intellectual Biography »
Marcello Musto
- Honorable Mention in the 2022 Eric Hoffer Book Award – Reference Category.
Samuel J. Spinner
- Co-Winner of the 2022 Germanic Languages and Literatures – Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize, sponsored by the Modern Language Association (MLA).
MLA Resources
We welcome inquiries from prospective authors, instructions for submitting book proposals to SUP are available online.
