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.
AATSEEL Book Awards Since 2000, the AATSEEL Publications Committee gives annual awards for scholarly contributions to Slavic language are given in various disciplines.
2000 Book Awards Prize Work Winner(s) Best Contribution to Language Pedagogy 12 Chairs Interactive (CD-ROM) and related multimedia projects Slava Paperno Best Book in Linguistics A Handbook of Slavic Clitics Steven Franks & Tracy Holloway King Best Book in Literary/Cultural Scholarship The Literary Lorgnette: Attending Opera in Imperial Russia Julie A. Buckler Best Translation into English Road-Side Dog by Czesław Miłosz Czesław Miłosz & Robert Hass (trans.)
2001 Book Awards Prize Work Winner(s) Best Contribution to Language Pedagogy The Learning and Teaching of Slavic Languages and Cultures Olga Kagan, Benjamin Rifkin & Susan Bauckus (eds.) Best Book in Linguistics Syntax of Negation in Russian: A Minimalist Approach Sue Brown Best Book in Literary/Cultural Scholarship Men Without Women: Masculinity and Revolution in Russian Fiction, 1917–1929 Eliot Borenstein Best Translation into English Selected Poems of Nikolay Zabolotsky by Nikolay Zabolotsky Daniel Weissbort (trans.);
2002 Book Awards Prize Work Winner(s) Best Contribution to Language Pedagogy Business Russian (web resource) ACTR Best Book in Linguistics A Historical Phonology of the Slovene Language Marc Leland Greenberg Best Book in Literary/Cultural Scholarship (1) Up from Bondage: The Literatures of Russian and African American Soul Dale E. Peterson Best Book in Literary/Cultural Scholarship (2) Rewriting the Jew: Assimilation Narratives in the Russian Empire Gabriella Safran Best Translation into English Selected Essays by Vyacheslav Ivanov Robert Bird (trans.); Michael Wachtel (ed.) The committee presented two awards in the Literary/Cultural Scholarship category in 2002.
2003 Book Awards Prize Work Winner(s) Best Contribution to Language Pedagogy The Russian Context: The Culture behind the Language Eloise M. Boyle & Genevra Gerhart (eds.) Best Book in Linguistics Reanimated Voices: Speech Reporting in a Historical-Pragmatic Perspective Daniel E. Collins Best Book in Literary/Cultural Scholarship Russian Pulp: The Detektiv and the Russian Way of Crime Anthony Olcott Best Translation into English Milosz's ABC's by Czesław Miłosz Madeline G. Levine (trans.)
2004 Book Awards Prize Work Winner(s) Best Contribution to Language Pedagogy Russian for Russians Olga Kagan, Tatiana Akishina & Richard Robin Best Book in Linguistics A Grammar of Contemporary Polish Oscar E. Swan Best Book in Literary/Cultural Scholarship Speaking in Soviet Tongues: Language Culture and the Politics of Voice in Revolutionary Russia Michael S. Gorham Best Translation into English Soul by Andrei Platonov Translators: Robert Chandler, Elizabeth Chandler, Olga Meerson with Jane Chamberlain, Olga Kouznetsova and Eric Naiman
2005 Book Awards Prize Work Winner(s) Best Contribution to Language Pedagogy (1) The Case Book for Russian Laura A. Janda & Stephen J. Clancy Best Contribution to Language Pedagogy (2) Modern Russian Culture: A Course of Ideas and Images (multimedia CD-ROM/DVD) Lauren G. Leighton Best Book in Linguistics Language and Identity in the Balkans: Serbo-Croat and its Disintegration Robert D. Greenberg Best Book in Literary/Cultural Scholarship Summerfolk: A History of the Dacha, 1710–2000 Stephen Lovell Best Translation into English Dreams and Stones by Magdalena Tulli Bill Johnston (trans.) The committee presented two awards in the Language Pedagogy category in 2005.
2006 Book Awards Prize Work Winner(s) Best Contribution to Language Pedagogy Macedonian = Makedonski jazik: A Course for Beginning and Intermediate Students (2nd ed.) Christina E. Kramer Best Book in Slavic Linguistics A Reference Grammar of Russian Alan Timberlake Best Book of Slavic Literary/Cultural Criticism Five Operas and a Symphony: Words and Music in Russian Culture Boris Gasparov Best Translation into English Diary, 1901–1969 by Kornei Chukovsky Michael Henry Heim (trans.);
2007 Book Awards Prize Work Winner(s) Best Contribution to Language Pedagogy Rozmovljajmo! (Let's Talk!): A Basic Ukrainian Course with Polylogs, Grammar, and Conversation Lessons Robert A. DeLossa, R. Robert Koropeckyj, Robert Romanchuk & Alexandra Isaievych Mason Best Contribution to Slavic Linguistics Contested Tongues: Language Politics and Cultural Correction in Ukraine Laada Bilaniuk Best Book of Slavic Literary/Cultural Criticism The Same Solitude: Boris Pasternak and Marina Tsvetaeva Catherine Ciepiela Best Translation into English The Railway by Hamid Ismailov Robert Chandler (trans.)
2008 Book Awards Prize Work Winner(s) Best Contribution to Language Pedagogy The RAILS: Russian Advanced Interactive Listening Series Project Benjamin Rifkin, Shannon Spasova, Viktoria Thorstensson, Nina Familiant & Dianna Murphy Best Contribution to Slavic Linguistics Linguistic Authority, Language Ideology, and Metaphor: The Czech Orthography Wars Neil Bermel Best Book in Literary/Cultural Studies The House in the Garden: The Bakunin Family and the Romance of Russian Idealism John Randolph Best Translation into English Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov Stephen Pearl (trans.)
2009 Book Awards Prize Work Winner(s) Best Contribution to Language Pedagogy Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian: A Textbook With Exercises and Basic Grammar Ronelle Alexander & Ellen Elias-Bursać Best Contribution to Slavic Linguistics The Curzon Bible Cynthia Vakareliyska Best Book in Literary/Cultural Studies Adam Mickiewicz: The Life of a Romantic Roman Koropeckyj Best Translation into English The White Guard by Mikhail Bulgakov Marian Schwartz (trans.)
2010 Book Awards Prize Work Winner(s) Best Contribution to Language Pedagogy A Day Without Lying (День без вранья) by Viktoria Tokareva William J. Comer (ed.) Best Contribution to Slavic Linguistics Celtic and Slavic and the Great Migrations: Reconstructing Linguistic Prehistory Jadranka Gvozdanović Best Book in Literary/Cultural Studies Manufacturing Truth: The Documentary Moment in Early Soviet Culture Elizabeth Astrid Papazian Best Translation into English The Little Golden Calf by Ilya Ilf & Evgeny Petrov Anne O. Fisher (trans.)
2011 Book Awards Prize Work Winner(s) Best Contribution to Language Pedagogy Using Russian Vocabulary Terence Wade Best Contribution to Slavic Linguistics The Syntax of Argument Structure Leonard H. Babby Best Book in Literary/Cultural Studies The Patriotism of Despair: Nation, War, and Loss in Russia Serguei Alex Oushakine Best Literary Translation into English The Book of Things: Poems by Aleš Šteger Brian Henry (trans.) Best Scholarly Translation into English No Love Without Poetry: The Memoirs of Marina Tsvetaeva's Daughter by Ariadna Efron Diane Nemec Ignashev (ed. & trans.)
2012 Book Awards Prize Work Winner(s) Best Contribution to Language Pedagogy Ukrainian Through Its Living Culture Alla Nedashkivska Best Book in Literary/Cultural Studies Moscow Prime Time: How the Soviet Union Built the Media Empire That Lost the Cultural Cold War Kristin Roth-Ey Best Literary Translation into English Stone Upon Stone by Wiesław Myśliwski Bill Johnston (translator) (trans.) Best Scholarly Translation into English Sobbing Superpower: Selected Poems of Tadeusz Różewicz by Tadeusz Różewicz Joanna Trzeciak (trans.)
2013 Book Awards Prize Work Winner(s) Best Contribution to Language Pedagogy Discovering Albanian 1: Textbook, Workbook, Audio Supplement Linda Mëniku & Héctor Campos Best Book in Literary/Cultural Studies The Aesthetics of Anarchy: Art and Ideology in the Early Avant-Garde Nina Gurianova Best Literary Translation into English The Letter Killers Club by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky Joanne Turnbull & Nikolai Formozov (trans.) Best Scholarly Translation into English A Herzen Reader by Alexander Herzen Kathleen Parthé (trans.) Best Contribution to Slavic Linguistics The Syntax of Russian John Frederick Bailyn
2014 Book Awards Prize Work Winner(s) Best Book in Literary/Cultural Studies When Art Makes News: Writing Culture and Identity in Imperial Russia Katia Dianina Best Contribution to Language Pedagogy Russian-English Dictionary of Idioms (revised ed.) Sophia Lubensky Best Literary Translation into English "I am a Phenomenon Quite Out of the Ordinary": The Notebooks, Diaries, and Letters of Daniil Kharms by Daniil Kharms Anthony Anemone & Peter Scotto (selected, trans. & ed.) Best Scholarly Translation into English The Russian Folktale by Vladimir Propp Sibelan Forrester (ed. & trans.)
2015 Book Awards Prize Work Winner(s) Best Book in Literary/Cultural Studies The First Epoch: The Eighteenth Century and the Russian Cultural Imagination Luba Golburt Best Book in Linguistics Onomatopoeia in Czech Masako Ueda Fidler Best Literary Translation into English High Tide by Inga Ābele Kaija Straumanis (trans.) Best Scholarly Translation into English Moscow and Muscovites by Vladimir Gilyarovsky Brendan Kiernan (trans.)
2016 Book Awards Prize Work Winner(s) Best Book in Literary/Cultural Studies Uncensored: Samizdat Novels and the Quest for Autonomy in Soviet Dissidence Ann Komaromi Best Literary Translation into English The Physics of Sorrow by Georgi Gospodinov Angela Rodel (trans.) Best Scholarly Translation into English A Science Not for the Earth by Yevgeny Baratynsky Rawley Grau (trans.)
2017 Book Awards Prize Work Winner(s) Best Book in Literary/Cultural Studies Russian Realisms: Literature and Painting, 1840–1890 Molly Brunson Best Book in Literary Criticism Lydia Ginzburg's Prose: Reality in Search of Literature Emily Van Buskirk Best Literary Translation into English Written in the Dark: Five Poets in the Siege of Leningrad Polina Barskova (ed.); Translators: Ben Felker-Quinn, Eugene Ostashevsky, Matvei Yankelevich, Jason Wagner, Rebekah Smith, Anand Dibble, Ainsley Morse & Charles Swank Best Scholarly Translation into English The Alexander Medvedkin Reader Translators: Nikita Lary & Jay Leyda Best Book in Pedagogy Между нами Lynn DeBenedette, William J. Comer, Alla Smyslova & Jonathan Perkins Best Book in Linguistics From the Bible to Shakespeare: Pantelejmon Kuliš (1819–97) and the Formation of Literary Ukrainian Andrii Danylenko
2018 Book Awards Prize Work Winner(s) Best Book in Literary Scholarship Lost in the Shadow of the Word: Space, Time, and Freedom in Interwar Eastern Europe Benjamin Paloff Best Book in Cultural Studies The War Within: Diaries from the Siege of Leningrad Alexis Peri Best Literary Translation into English City Folk and Country Folk by Sofia Khvoshchinskaya Nora Seligman Favorov (trans.) Best Scholarly Translation Gulag Letters by Arsenii Formakov Emily D. Johnson (ed. & trans.)
2019 Book Awards Prize Work Winner(s) Best Book in Cultural Studies To See Paris and Die Eleonory Gilburd 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
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