The 2012 Susan Koppelman Award is sponsored by the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association. Award winners will be announced at the PCA/ACA annual convention in Washington, D.C. March 27-March 30, 2013 and posted on the PCA/ACA website at http://www.h-net.org/~pcaaca/, and on other appropriate websites, newsletters, and publications. Books published in 2012 that fit the criteria of best anthology, multi-authored, or edited book in Feminist Studies in Popular Culture are eligible for consideration for this year’s awards. Nominations may be made by publishers, authors, editors, reviewers, or enthusiastic readers. The deadline for receipt of materials to be considered is December 31, 2012.

Please send one copy of nominated books to each of the four Award Committee members below:

Jennifer Tebbe-Grossman
Chair, PCA/ACA Susan Koppelman Award Committee
Professor of Political Science and American Studies
School of Arts and Sciences
Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences
179 Longwood Avenue
Boston, Massachusetts 02115
Phone: 617-732-2904
Email: jennifer.tebbe@mcphs.edu

Grace L. Dillon
Associate Professor and Coordinator,Popular Culture Department of English
Portland State University
P.O. Box 751
Portland, Oregon 97207-0751

Melody Moskowitz
4375 E. Coronado Ridge Lane
Tucson, Arizona 85739

Virginia Bemis
722 King Ridge Drive
Ashland, Ohio 44805

Recent Award Winners
2011. Treacherous Texts: U. S. Suffrage Literature, 1846-1946. Edited by Mary Chapman and Angela Mills. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press.

2010. Black Venus 2010: They Called Her “Hottentot”. Edited by Deborah Willis. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press. 2009. The Fat Studies Reader. Edited by Esther Rothblum and Sondral Solovay. New York, New York: NYU Press.

2008. Teatro Chicana: A Collective Memoir and Selected Plays. Edited by Laura E. Garcia, Sandra M. Gutierrez, and Felicitas Nuñez. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press.

2007. After the Revolution: Women Who Transformed Contemporary Art. Edited by Eleanor Heartney, Helaine Posner, Nancy Princenthal, and Sue Scott. New York, New York: Prestel Press.

2006. Daughters of Earth: Feminist Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century. Edited by Justine Larbalestier. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press.

Susan Koppelman was the first woman to receive the American Culture Association Governing Board Award for Outstanding Contributions to American Culture Studies. The Women's Joint Caucus for the American and Popular Culture Associations honored her by the establishment of the annual Susan Koppelman Award for Best Anthology, Multi-Authored, or Edited book in Feminist Studies in Popular Culture. The first award was announced in 1985. Susan Koppelman is a feminist literary historian and is the editor of ground-breaking critical collections of American women's short stories. She also edited the first anthology of feminist literary criticism.