Shortlisted for the MELUS Book Award

Yesterday, The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States (MELUS) announced that my book, Refiguring Race and Risk: Counternarratives of Care in the US Security State, was placed on the shortlist for the inaugural 2023-24 MELUS Book Award. This biennial award recognizes an excellent academic monograph published within a two-year period that aligns with the mission of MELUS and is primarily focused on multiple ethnicities, comparative ethnicities, or mixed identities in texts of the United States or of the U.S. and the Americas. 

Here is the official list of authors and books selected for this recognition, taken from the official announcement released by the MELUS Book Award Committee:

Winner: Alexander Manshel, Writing Backwards: Historical Fiction and the Reshaping of the American Canon (Columbia UP, 2024)

Honorable Mention: Glenda R. Carpio, Migrant Aesthetics: Contemporary Fiction, Global Migration, and the Limits of Empathy (Columbia UP, 2023)

Short List:

• Christopher T. Fan, Asian American Fiction after 1965: Transnational Fantasies of Economic Mobility (Columbia UP, 2024)
• Ryan Sharp, Another Throat: Twenty-First-Century Black US Persona Poetry and the Archive (U of North Carolina P, 2024)
• Cristina Stanciu, ​The Makings and Unmakings of Americans: Indians and Immigrants in American Literature and Culture, 1879-1924 (Yale UP, 2023)
• Roberta Wolfson, Refiguring Race and Risk: Counternarratives of Care in the US Security State (Ohio State UP, 2024)

​I am incredibly honored to have been recognized alongside the above colleagues. In addition, I'm deeply grateful to the members of the selection committee for their time and labor.