Friday, June 12th, 2015
Note: To be eligible for this award, you must be registered as a graduate student at your institution at the time of the awards ceremony. And the award can only be received once.
Year | Recipient |
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2022 | Dylan Couch, University of Idaho |
2022 | Cara Schwartz, University of Saskatchewan |
2021 | Sarah Jane Kerwin, University of Michigan—Ann Arbor |
2020 | Sarah Nolan, University of Southern California |
2020 | Renee Sprinkle, West Texas A&M University |
2019 | Maria Alberto, University of Utah |
2019 | Travis Franks, Arizona State University |
2018 | Meagan Meylor, University of Southern California |
2018 | Amanda Monteleone, University of Texas at Arlington |
2017 | April Anson |
2017 | Lisa Fink |
2016 | Amy Gore |
2016 | Michael Olausen |
2015 | William V. Lombardi |
2015 | Michael P. Taylor |
2014 | Brittany Henry |
2014 | Lisa Locascio |
2014 | Ashley Reis |
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Monday, April 6th, 2015
Note: This award will be given in 2023.
Most years, the Western Literature Association and the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies are sponsoring up to two K-12 Teaching Awards that will provide teachers with the opportunity to attend and present at the Western Literature Association Annual Meeting.
The prize then includes conference registration, an award banquet ticket, a WLA membership, and $700 cash toward conference related costs such as hotel and airfare. Prize winners must attend the WLA conference and present on the WLA/Redd Center K-12 Educator Prize panel on Saturday. Continuing Education credit may be available. Please check with your district’s professional development office.
• Resumé
• Instructional Plan (K-12, any level)
• Teaching Statement (how the Instructional Plan contributes to your teaching goals)
• One letter of support (from principal, administrator, or colleague)
Instructional plans may focus on any author or theme related to the literature of the American West, broadly defined. We encourage teachers to submit their new and existing teaching ideas. The following topics and approaches are encouraged:
Instructional Plans should be based on a focused 2-4-week unit on a specific theme, author, work of literature, etc. You do not need to include daily lesson plans, but you may submit supplemental discussion questions, assignment sheets, etc. The provided instructional plan format is very flexible and just a guideline. You are welcome to develop a format and structure that applies to your teaching and classroom context and grade level.
Award details, including the instructional plan format and scoring rubric, can be downloaded by clicking on the links.
All applicants for the prize will be sent a written release that allows the WLA and the Charles Redd Center to post your lesson plans on their websites and to possibly include your lesson plans in other publications. Your work will remain your own and you will be given appropriate citation and credit in any digital or print reproductions of your work. The release must be signed and returned for you to be eligible to win the prize.
2019:
Katharine Amber Anthony, Palo Duro High School, Amarillo Independent School District, TX, “Establishing Roots: Place-Based Learning in a Multicultural, Title I High School”
2018:
Nathan Parker, Holland Hall School, Tulsa, OK, “Teaching Plains Writer Susan Glaspell’s ‘A Jury of Her Peers’”
2017:
Jennifer Kawecki and Hakan Armagan, Burke High School, Omaha, NE, “My Land, Our Land: Exploring the Ethics of Energy Policy, Consumption, and Sustainability Using Aldo Leopold’s ‘The Land Ethic’,” a cooperative effort by an English and a physics teacher.
2016:
Hali Kirby, Gardiner Public Schools, Gardiner, MT, “‘Letters from Yellowstone’: Stories of Women Scientists in Yellowstone National Park”
2015:
Tom McGuire, Santa Cruz Catholic School, Austin, TX, “The Forgotten Role of Native Americans in the Texas Revolution”
Jamie Crosswhite, Canyon High School, Canyon, TX, “Identity through Place”
Cheryl Hughes, Sentinel High School, Missoula, MT, “Using Service Learning and Oral History Projects to Teach Indian Creek Chronicles by Pete Fromm”
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Monday, June 14th, 2010
Distinguished Achievement Award: for an influential scholar in the field of western American literature (creative writer or critic)
Delbert and Edith Wylder Award: for exceptional service to the Western Literature Association by a longtime member
Thomas J. Lyon Book Award: named after a former editor of Western American Literature, this award goes to an outstanding monograph in western literary or cultural studies
Don D. Walker Prize: given to the best journal essay or book chapter from an edited collection in Western North American literary and cultural studies, published during the previous year
J. Golden Taylor Award: named after the first editor of Western American Literature, this award goes to the graduate student who submitted the best paper to the annual conference
Dorys Crow Grover Award: given to a graduate student who submits an outstanding paper that meets the criteria of the current year’s conference
Creative Writing Award: this award goes to the best creative writing submission at the annual conference
Susan J. Rosowski Award: named after a longtime WLA member, this award goes to a generous and caring mentor and teacher in the field of western American literary studies
Louis Owens Awards: provide financial support for diverse and international graduate students to attend the annual WLA conference
WLA/Charles Redd Center K–12 Teaching Award: provides teachers with the opportunity to attend and present at the WLA Conference; sponsored by the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies and the WLA
Composition of Award Committees
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Monday, June 14th, 2010
Year | Recipient(s) |
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2022 | Luci Tapahonso |
2021 | No award was given due to rescheduling of the conference to 2022. |
2020 | Juan Felipe Herrera |
2020 | Stephen Graham Jones |
2019 | Leslie Marmon Silko |
2018 | Percival Everett & José E. Limón |
2017 | Rick Shiomi |
2016 | Maxine Hong Kingston |
2015 | LeAnne Howe & Robert Laxalt |
2014 | Connie Kaldor |
2013 | Robert Hass & Louis Owens |
2012 | Richard Slotkin & Joss Whedon |
2011 | Thomas McGuane |
2010 | Luis Valdez |
2009 | Cormac McCarthy |
2008 | William Kittredge and Patty Limerick |
2007 | Sherman Alexie |
2006 | Terry Tempest Williams |
2005 | Gerald Vizenor and Joan Didion |
2004 | Mary Clearman Blew and Thomas King |
2003 | Sandra Cisneros and José David Saldívar, Ramón Saldívar, and Sonia Saldívar-Hull |
2002 | Annette Kolodny and Alberto A. Ríos |
2001 | Patricia Hampl and Roderick Nash |
2000 | Joy Harjo |
1999 | James D. Houston and Gerald Haslam |
1998 | Rudy Wiebe |
1997 | Rudolfo Anaya |
1996 | Tillie Olsen |
1995 | Robert Kroetsch |
1994 | James Maguire, Wayne Chatterton, and James Welch |
1993 | Tony Hillerman |
1992 | Louise Erdrich |
1991 | Ann Zwinger |
1990 | Elmer Kelton |
1989 | Ivan Doig and Mildred R. Bennett |
1988 | Ken Kesey and Max Westbrook |
1987 | Larry McMurtry and Thomas J. Lyon |
1986 | Benjamin Capps and Don D. Walker |
1985 | Américo Paredes and William Eastlake |
1984 | Gary Snyder |
1983 | N. Scott Momaday |
1982 | Thomas Hornsby Ferril |
1981 | Dorothy Johnson |
1980 | Sophus Keith Winther and Bernice Slote |
1979 | Wright Morris |
1978 | Edward Abbey |
1977 | Thomas McGrath |
1976 | William Stafford |
1975 | Jack Schaefer |
1974 | Wallace Stegner and J. Golden Taylor |
1973 | Paul Horgan |
1972 | A. B. Guthrie, Jr. |
1971 | Harvey Fergusson and John G. Neihardt |
1970 | Henry Nash Smith |
1969 | Walter Van Tilburg Clark |
1968 | Frank Waters |
1967 | Frederick Manfred |
1966 | Vardis Fisher |
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Monday, June 14th, 2010
Instituted in 1993 and named for a WLA president and two founding members of the association, this award goes to a longtime WLA member for exceptional contributions to the association.
Delbert Wylder was not just a WLA president and founding member of the WLA, but a lifelong contributor to all things WLA, who kept in touch personally with many of the early members. At his memorial, he was described as follows: “Family, friends, books, and wine: these were the four elements of Delbert Wylder. Put them together and you get The Quintessential Deb, a charming, occasionally eccentric combination of humor, warmth, and high spirits.” Deb Wylder himself described his wife, Edith, as “such a pleasure to live with every day” (communication with Dorys Grover, 2000).
In order to nominate someone for the Wylder award, please collaborate with WLA colleagues and solicit at least three detailed letters of support, from students, WLA members, or anyone else who seems appropriate. They can be submitted together or separately to the WLA Awards Coordinator/s. The Awards Coordinator/s will submit the nominations to the Past Presidents and current presidential line, who will make the decision.
Members who have previously won the award will not be considered for a second nomination.
Please send nominations to our Awards Coordinator, Anne Kaufman.
Year | Recipient |
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2022 | Krista Comer |
2021 | Due to covid-related rescheduling of the 2021 conference, no award was given. |
2020 | Nicolas S. Witschi |
2019 | Susan Kollin |
2018 | Tom Lynch |
2017 | Sara Spurgeon |
2016 | Susan Naramore Maher |
2015 | Nancy S. Cook |
2014 | William R. Handley |
2013 | Melody Graulich |
2012 | Susanne George Bloomfield |
2011 | Ann Putnam |
2010 | Judy Nolte Temple |
2009 | Charles Crow |
2008 | Martin Bucco |
2007 | Laurie Ricou |
2006 | Phyllis Doughman |
2005 | Gerald Haslam |
2004 | Melody Graulich |
2003 | Robert Thacker |
2002 | Stephen Tatum |
2001 | Susan J. Rosowski |
2000 | James C. Work |
1999 | Ann Ronald |
1998 | Barbara Meldrum |
1997 | Jim Maguire |
1996 | Thomas J. Lyon |
1995 | Glen A. Love |
1994 | George F. Day |
1993 | Helen Stauffer |
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Monday, June 14th, 2010
Fifty-seven years after the founding of the Western Literature Association and Western American Literature, scholarship of the literary West is thriving in both quantity and quality. To honor outstanding, single-author scholarly books on the literature and culture of the American West, the Western Literature Association seeks nominations for the annual Thomas J. Lyon Book Award.
TO QUALIFY FOR THIS AWARD, BOOKS MUST
* have a 2022 publication date
* be an outstanding, single-author, book-length study on the literature and culture of the American West
The past presidents of the Western Literature Association sponsor this award and invite you TO NOMINATE A BOOK FOR THIS AWARD.
Readers who want to nominate a book can submit a statement of support to Anne Kaufman by June 1, 2023.
Self-nominating authors and presses, please send books directly to the committee members by June 15:
Susan Bernardin, Chair
TJLyon Book Award 2023
3035 NW McKinley Drive
Corvallis OR 97330
Jada Ach
TJLyon Award 2023
639 S. 35th Pl.
Mesa AZ 85204
Travis Franks
TJLyon Award 2023
Department of English
3200 Old Main Hill
Logan UT 84322-3200
Nominations are due by June 1, 2023
Please contact Anne Kaufman for any questions you might have regarding this award.
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Year | Recipient | Publication |
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2022 | Audrey Goodman | A Planetary Lens: The Photo-Poetics of Western Women’s Writing |
2021 | Susan Nance | Rodeo: An Animal History |
2020 | Cathryn Halverson | Faraway Women and the Atlantic Monthly |
2019 | Kirby Brown | Stoking the Fire: Nationhood in Cherokee Writing, 1907–1970 |
2018 | Richard Etulain | Ernest Haycox and the Western |
2017 | Priscilla Solis Ybarra | Writing the Goodlife: Mexican American Literature and the Environment |
2016 | Susan Kollin | Captivating Westerns |
2015 | Lisa Tatonetti | The Queerness of Native American Literature |
2014 | Christine Bold | The Frontier Club: Popular Westerns and Cultural Power, 1880-1924 |
2013 | Annette Kolodny | In Search of First Contact: The Vikings of Vinland, the Peoples of the Dawnland, and the Anglo-American Anxiety of Discovery |
2012 | Daniel Worden | Masculine Style: The American West and Literary Modernism |
2011 | Krista Comer | Surfer Girls in the New World Order |
2010 | John Beck | Dirty Wars: Landscape, Power, and Waste in Western American Literature |
2009 | Tom Lynch | Xerophelia: Ecocritical Explorations in Southwestern Literature |
2008 | Robert McKee Irwin | Bandits, Captives, Heroines, and Saints: Cultural Icons of Mexico's Northwest Borderlands |
2007 | John-Michael Rivera | The Emergence of Mexican America: Recovering Stories of Mexican Peoplehood in US Culture |
2006 | David Dorado Romo | Ringside Seat to a Revolution: An Underground Cultural History of El Paso and Juárez 1893-1923 |
2005 | Stephanie LeMenager | Manifest and Other Destinies: Territorial Fictions of the Nineteenth-Century United States (University of Nebraska Press, 2004) |
2004 | Nathaniel Lewis | Unsettling the Literary West: Authenticity and Authorship (University of Nebraska Press, 2003) |
2003 | Audrey Goodman | Translating Southwestern Landscapes: The Making of an Anglo Literary Region (University of Arizona Press, 2002) |
2002 | James M. Cahalan | Edward Abbey: A Life (University of Arizona Press, 2001) |
2001 | Gary Scharnhorst | Bret Harte: Opening the American Literary West (University of Oklahoma Press, 2000) |
2000 | Susan Rosowski | Birthing a Nation: Gender, Creativity, and the West in American Literature (University of Nebraska Press, 1999) |
1999 | Thomas Pilkington | State of Mind: Texas Literature and Culture (Texas A&M University Press, 1998) |
1998 | Andrew Elkins | The Great Poem of the Earth: A Study of the Poetry of Thomas Hornsby Ferril (University of Idaho Press, 1997) |
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Monday, June 14th, 2010
The Don D. Walker Prize is given annually to the best journal essay or book chapter from an edited collection in Western North American literary and cultural studies, published during the previous calendar year (for example, the 2023 winner’s essay will have a publication date of 2022). “Western” in this context is defined broadly and refers to all of North America that historically or critically has been considered “West” as well as to comparative studies of the American West that cross regional or national boundaries.
Nominations are solicited from presses and journals, as well as from individuals. Self-nominations are accepted. The prize selection committee is made up of Western Literature Association members.
The award will be given at the annual Western Literature Association conference.
It is not necessary to be a member of the association to win the award.
Please submit the essay or article you wish to nominate (preferably by electronic attachment) to the committee chair, Emily Lutenski.
In the event of print submission, please send 5 copies to
Emily Lutenski
Walker Prize Chair
Saint Louis University
Adorjan Hall
3800 Lindell Blvd 131
St Louis MO 63108
Deadline for nominations: June 1, 2023.
If you have any questions, please email Dr. Emily Lutenski directly.
Year | Recipent(s) |
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2022 | Krista Comer for “Staying with the White Trouble of Recent Feminist Westerns,” Western American Literature 56.2 |
2021 | Joshua Smith for “Uncle Tom’s Cabin Showdown: Stowe, Tarantino, and the Minstrelsy of the Weird West,” in Weird Westerns: Race, Gender, Genre , ed. by Kerry Fine, Michael Johnson, Rebecca Lush and Sara Spurgeon |
2020 | Emily Lutenski for "Dickens Disappeared: Black Los Angeles and the Borderlands of Racial Memory," American Studies |
2019 | Marcel Brousseau for "Allotment Knowledges: Grid Spaces, Home Places, and Storyscapes on the Way to Rainy Mountain, " Native American and Indigenous Studies |
2018 | Jessica Hurley for "Impossible Futures: Fictions of Risk in the Longue Durée," American Literature |
2017 | Christopher Pexa |
2016 | Lori Harrison-Kahan and Karen E. H. Skinazi |
2015 | Joanna Hearne |
2014 | Jayson Gonzales Sae-Saue |
2013 | Kay Yandell |
2012 | Kirby Brown |
2011 | Chadwick Allen |
2010 | Hsuan L. Hsu |
2009 | Mark Rifkin |
2008 | Chadwick Allen |
2007 | Stephen Tatum |
2006 | Janet Dean |
2005 | Susan Bernardin |
2004 | Stephanie LeMenager |
2003 | Susan Scheckel |
2002 | Victoria Lamont |
2001 | Susan Kollin |
2000 | Chadwick Allen |
1999 | Krista Comer |
1998 | Forrest Robinson |
1997 | Gary Scharnhorst |
1996 | Susan K. Bernardin |
1995 | Stephen Tatum |
1994 | Susan Lee Johnson |
1993 | Annette Kolodny |
1992 | Roxanne Rimstead |
1991 | Glen A. Love |
1990 | Lee Clark Mitchell |
1987 | Roger Stein |
1986 | Margery Fee |
1985 | William Lemon |
1984 | Melody Graulich |
1983 | Robert Roripaugh |
1982 | Richard Slotkin |
1981 | Anthony Hunt |
1980 | Forrest G. Robinson |
1979 | Jarold Ramsey |
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Monday, June 14th, 2010
Named in honor of the first editor of Western American Literature, and also one of the Western Literature Association’s founders and presidents, the Taylor Award is a prestigious award juried by a team of experts in the field and given annually to a work of scholarship submitted by a graduate student for the annual conference. Creative work is not considered for the Taylor; however, creative work may be submitted to the association’s Creative Writing Award, and graduate student participants have been successful in winning that in the past (see Creative Writing Award).
To be considered for the Taylor Award, submit a complete, conference-length paper (not exceeding 15 pages) that you will be presenting at the conference with a cover letter indicating that you wish to be considered for the Taylor Award.
Email your submission to Bill Handley, chair of the Taylor Judging Committee with the subject line “TAYLOR AWARD SUBMISSION.”
Deadline for submission: August 1, 2023.
The award consists of a $200 cash prize plus a banquet ticket.
The award will be given during the conference banquet.
Note: To be eligible for this award, you must be registered as a graduate student at the time of the awards ceremony.
The award can only be received once.
Year | Recipient | Affiliation |
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2022 | Bowen Du | UC Davis |
2021 | Meagan Meylor | University of Southern California |
2020 | Surabhi Balachander | University of Michigan |
2019 | Amanda Monteleone | University of Texas at Arlington |
2018 | Travis Franks | Arizona State University |
2017 | Elena Valdez | Rice University |
2016 | Jada Ach | University of South Carolina |
2015 | Jenna Hunnef | University of Toronto |
2014 | Aubrey Streit Krug | University of Nebraska, Lincoln |
2013 | Heather Dundas | University of Southern California |
2012 | Sylvan Goldberg | Stanford University |
2011 | Christopher Muniz | University of Southern California |
2010 | Alex Young | University of Southern California |
2009 | Joshuah O'Brien | West Texas A&M |
2008 | Matthew J. Lavin | University of Iowa |
2007 | Patrick Gleason | University of California, San Diego |
2006 | Angela Waldie | University of Calgary |
2005 | John Gamber | Univ. of California, Santa Barbara |
2004 | Ianina Arnold | University of Idaho |
2003 | Matt Burkhart | University of Arizona |
2002 | Laurie Clements Lambeth | University of Houston |
2001 | Virginia Kennedy | Montclair State University |
2000 | Jenny Emery Davidson | University of Utah |
1999 | Jenny Emery Davidson | University of Utah |
1998 | Anne L. Kaufman | |
1997 | Jonathan Pitts | SUNY-Buffalo |
1996 | Wes Mantooth | |
1995 | Phil Coleman-Hull | |
1994 | David Mazel | |
1993 | Evelyn I. Funda | Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln |
1989 | Nat Lewis | |
1988 | Nancy Cook | SUNY-Buffalo |
1987 | Cheryll Burgess Glotfelty | Cornell University |
1986 | Linda A. Hughson-Ross | |
1984 | Anne K. Phillips |
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Monday, June 14th, 2010
Instituted in 2001, the Creative Writing Award celebrates the creative writers among our members.
You can submit poetry, short story, memoir, or other creative nonfiction. Please submit the piece that you are planning on reading at the conference (in other words, this is your conference paper).
The award comes with a small stipend.
To be eligible for the award, a piece cannot have been accepted for publication in any form by the submission deadline.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
— You must be a WLA member.
— You must include a statement that your submission has not been accepted for publication at this time.
— Please submit your entry in full length (no longer than 10 double-spaced pages) to info@westernlit.org with the subject heading “CREATIVE WRITING AWARD SUBMISSION” by August 1, 2023.
Judging Committee:
TBA
Year | Recipient | Piece |
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2022 | Lawrence Coates | “A Great Man among His People” |
2021 | Melody Graulich | "The Magpie" |
2020 | Raul B. Moreno | "Sleepier Than Me" |
2019 | Joshua Dolezal | "Darkness and Light" |
2018 | Sydney Thompson | "Thataway" |
2017 | Cheyenne Marco | "Water Signs" |
2016 | Erin Flanagan | "The Rule of Threes" |
2015 | Michael Branch | "Dark Cliffy Spot: Naming a Place, Placing a Name" |
2014 | Lisa Knopp | "Groundwork" |
2013 | No prize was awarded. | |
2012 | David Thacker | "The Voice of One Crying in the Wilderness and Other Poems" |
2011 | Doreen Pfost | "Trailing Consequences" |
2010 | Liz Stephens | "Ten Years I'll Never Get Back" |
2009 | Denice Turner | "Shadow Legacy" |
2008 | J. J. Clark | “As Is” |
2007 | Joshua Dolezal | “Selway by Headlamp” |
2006 | Russ Beck | “When I Believe in Faith” |
2004 | Terre Ryan | “In the Name of the Bomb: Confessions of a Cold War Catholic Kid” |
2003 | Laurie Clements Lambeth | “Fluid on the Brain” |
2002 | Michael L. Johnson | “Southwestern Afllatus” |
2001 | Lee Ann Roripaugh | “‘Mitten Springs’ and Other Poems Searching for Home: Japanese Americans in the American West” |
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Monday, June 14th, 2010
This award was instituted by the WLA Executive Council in 2005 and was given for the first time at the 2006 WLA Conference in Boise. It is awarded every other year (in even years).
Year | Recipient |
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2022 | No award given. |
2020 | No award given. |
2018 | No award given. |
2016 | William R. Handley |
2014 | Evelyn I. Funda |
2012 | Melody Graulich and Annette Kolodny |
2010 | Cheryll Glotfelty |
2008 | Susan Naramore Maher |
2006 | James H. Maguire |
THE NEXT AWARD WILL BE GIVEN IN 2024.
Nominating Procedure:
In order to nominate someone for the Rosowski Award, please collaborate with WLA colleagues and solicit at least five separate letters of support, from students, WLA members, or anyone else who seems appropriate. Letters should address the nominee’s long-standing support of WLA members, as well as graduate students. They might address service in WLA that benefits graduate students; evidence of mentoring younger colleagues; information about support letters written; number of students who have become involved in WLA’s curriculum development; pedagogical publications, etc. Please submit materials in one packet to the WLA Awards Coordinators, who will keep track of the files.
Once nominated, the candidate remains in the pool of nominees for two award cycles. However, members who were nominated prior to the previous award cycle may be re-nominated. Members who have previously won the award will not be considered for a second nomination.
Nominations or questions about the award may be addressed via email to Anne Kaufman, Awards Coordinator.
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Monday, June 14th, 2010
The WLA honors the great writer and scholar Louis Owens for his contributions to western American and American Indian literary studies and for his unfailing generosity as a colleague, teacher, and mentor. The goal of the Louis Owens Awards is to build for the future of the Western Literature Association by modeling Owens’ own support and encouragement of diverse graduate student engagement in western literature and culture studies.
The Owens Awards are intended to foster ever-greater diversity within the WLA membership, to help broaden the field of western American literary studies, and to recognize both graduate student scholarship and financial need. Since its inception in 2004 through an anonymous donation and with the help of yearly donations from our members, 32 scholarships have been awarded so far.
PLEASE HELP US KEEP THIS AWARD GOING AND DONATE TODAY:
THANK YOU!
The monetary amount of this year’s scholarships: TBA.
If you are interested in applying for this award, submit a paper proposal for participation in the conference. If your paper is accepted, you can then submit the award application materials via Google Forms: https://forms.gle/VBuUzkRenhj72HHz5.
Application deadline: August 1, 2023
If you are awarded one of the Owens stipends, you are expected to attend most of the conference. Please see conference details for the 2023 WLA Conference.
If you have any questions regarding the Owens Awards, please contact Prof. Lydia Heberling, Chair of the Owens Committee.
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PREVIOUS WINNERS:
Originally named the Minority Student Award
2004: JOSHUA SMITH, University of Southern California
2005: JESSICA BREMMER, University of Southern California
ANDREA DOMINGUEZ, University of Arizona
Renamed Louis Owens Award/s
2006: ELIXABETE ANSA-GOICOECHEA, Indiana University
JENNIFER CLARK, University of Southern California
2007: NAVEED REHAN, University of Alberta
2008: JESSICA BREMMER, University of Southern California
2009: CAROLE JUGE, Université Paris, Sorbonne
JAMES E. MURRAY, University of South Dakota
2010: ELISA BORDIN, University of Verona
STEPHEN SIPERSTEIN, University of Southern California
2011: JOHANNES FEHRLE, University Freiburg, Germany
2012: CHRISTOPHER MUNIZ, University of Southern California
AUBREY STREIT KRUG, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
2013: RENATA GOMES, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil
JASMINE JOHNSON, University of British Columbia
2014: JANE WONG, University of Washington
2015: SHANE JOSEPH WILLIS FRANKIEWICZ, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany
LORENA GAUTHEREAU, Rice University
JULIE WILLIAMS, University of New Mexico
2016: MIKA KENNEDY, University of Michigan
MARIA MACKAS, Georgia State University
HO’ESTA MO’E’HAHNE, University of Southern California
2017: LAURA DE VOS, University of Washington
NADHIA GREWAL, Goldsmiths University of London, UK
2018: LYDIA HEBERLING, University of Washington-Seattle
TISHA REICHLE, University of Southern California
BERNADETTE RUSSO, Texas Tech University
2019: MARIA ALBERTO, University of Utah
SURABHI BALACHANDER, University of Michigan
2020: No awards were given.
2021: No awards were given.
2022: TACEY ATSITTY, Florida State University
DOMINIC DONGILLI, Goldsmiths University of London
LAUREN WHITE, University of Southern California
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FEATURE OF PREVIOUS WINNER:
Note: Our 2018 award recipient, Lydia Heberling, is this year’s award committee chair! She is now an assistant professor at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo in the Department of Ethnic Studies.
Meet one of our Owens Recipients: Lydia Heberling (2018)
The Western Literature Association is truly one of the most welcoming professional organizations for graduate students entering the field of Western literary studies. WLA faculty are generous with their mentorship, feedback, and encouragement, and the graduate student cohort is deeply collaborative and supportive. I have been energized and encouraged by the vibrant exchange of ideas and collaborative spirit I found in the WLA since I first attended in Reno, Nevada, in 2015.
It is through the generous support of the Louis Owens Award committee that I was able to attend the 2018 conference in St. Louis, Missouri, and present work on reimagining 17th and 18th century Spanish missions in California as Indigenous hubs of resistance. This work in progress examined the rich mixed-media, mixed-genre book Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir (2013) by Chumash and Costanoan Ohlone-Esselen writer Deborah Miranda, which reframes dominant narratives about Indigenous erasure in California. The WLA is particularly supportive of work in the field of American Indian and Indigenous literary studies, and I am so grateful that awards such as the Louis Owens Award exist to support work by Indigenous scholars and scholars of color in this field.
Through the WLA I have made several lasting friendships and connections that will continue to shape my professional work and enrich my personal life. At WLA conferences I have had the immense pleasure of interacting with scholars such as Krista Comer, Lisa Tatonetti, Susan Bernardin, Joanna Hearne, Jenn Ladino, and Kirby Brown. The WLA is a fantastic space for emerging scholars to develop work in any area of Western literary and cultural studies.
~Lydia Heberling, University of Washington (2019)
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Friday, January 1st, 2010
PAST CONFERENCE PROGRAMS
Below you’ll find conference programs from previous years. The earlier copies do not include last-minute changes.
WLA Conference Program 1999 (Sacramento)
Conference Program 2003: The West of the 21st Century (Houston, Texas)
Conference Program 2004 (Big Sky, Montana)
Conference Program 2005 (Los Angeles, California) [Word file]
Conference Program 2006 (Boise, Idaho)
Conference Program 2007 (Tacoma, Washington) [Word fiile]
Conference Program 2008 (Boulder, Colorado)
Conference Program 2009 (Spearfish, South Dakota)
Conference Program 2010 (Prescott, Arizona)
Conference Program 2011 (Missoula, Montana)
Conference Program 2012 (Lubbock, Texas)
Conference Program 2013 (Berkeley, California)
Conference Program 2014 (Victoria, British Columbia)
Conference Program 2015 (Reno, Nevada)
Conference Program 2016 (Big Sky, Montana)—final copy, including corrections
Conference Program 2017 (Minneapolis, Minnesota)—final copy, including corrections
Conference Program 2018 (St. Louis, Missouri)—final copy, including corrections
Conference Program 2019 (Estes Park, Colorado)—final copy, including corrections
Conference Program 2020 (First Virtual Conference)
No conference held in 2021 due to covid-19.
Conference Program 2022 (Santa Fe, New Mexico)—final copy, including corrections
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