Upcoming Dasher Categories
2025
Category: Literary or Rhetorical Scholarship and Criticism (published 2021—2024)
2024
Creative Writing (published 2020—2023)
2023
Category: Pedagogy and Professional Issues (published 2019—2022)
Past Winners
2022
Category: Literary or Rhetorical Scholarship and Criticism (published 2018—2021)
Winner: Kimberly Mack
Fictional Blues: Narrative Self-Invention from Bessie Smith to Jack White (U of Massachusetts Press)
2020/2021
Category: Creative Writing (published 2017—2019)
Winner: Margot Singer
Underground Fugue (Melville House, 2017)
2019
Category: Pedagogy and Professional Issues (published 2014—2018)
Winner: Amanda Hayes
The Politics of Appalachian Rhetoric (West Virginia University Press, 2018)
2018
Category: Literary or Rhetorical Scholarship and Criticism
Winner: William Marling
Gatekeepers: The Emergence of World Literature and the 1960s (Oxford UP, 2016)
2017
Category: Creative Writing
Winner: Meredith Doench
Book: Crossed (Bold Stroke Books, 2015)
2016
Category: Pedagogy and Professional Issues
Winner: No entries; resubmit in 2019
2015
Category: Literary or Rhetorical Scholarship and Criticism
Winner:
Book:
2014
Category: Pedagogy and Professional Issues
Winner: Steve Brown
Book: Listening Myths: Applying Second Language Research to Classroom Teaching (University of Michigan Press ELT, 2011)
2013
Category: Pedagogy and Professional IssuesCategory: Creative Writing
Winner:
Book:
2012
Category: Literary or Rhetorical Scholarship and Criticism
Winner: Patrick Chura
Book: Thoreau the Land Surveyor
2011
Category: Literary or Rhetorical Scholarship and Criticism
Winner: Kimberly K. Emmons
Book: Black Dogs and Blue Words: Depression and Gender in the Age of Self-Care (Rutgers UP, 2010)
2006
Category: Pedagogy and Professional Issues
Winner: Jacqueline Jones Royster and Ann Marie Mann Simpkins, Editors
Book: Calling Cards: Theory and Practice in the Study of Race, Gender, and Culture (U of New York Press, 2005)
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