[Comicsstudiessociety] 2023 CSS Prizes: Call for Nominations

Wed Mar 8 18:31:34 EST 2023

Dear colleagues,

It is my pleasure to announce the Call for Nominations for the 2023 CSS
Prizes
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!

Please note the establishment of a new prize category this year, the CSS
Dissertation Prize
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and our use of this Google Form
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for
nomination submissions.

In addition to soliciting nominations for the 2023 Awards Cycle, we
welcome expressions
of interest in adjudicating the various prize categories. This is a good
way to get more involved in the CSS and an excellent opportunity to read
all the top scholarship coming out of comics studies at the moment. If
you’re interested in being a judge on one of the CSS Prizes six Awards
Subcommittees, please reach out to me at comicssociety.awards at gmail.com.

We look forward to receiving your nominations!

With gratitude,

Biz Nijdam

CSS Secretary and Awards Coordinator

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Comics Studies Society Prizes 2023: Call for Nominations

Nomination Deadline: April 15th, 2023

The Comics Studies Society (CSS) recognizes outstanding contributions to
the study of comic art with six annual prizes: the CSS Article Prize, the
Hillary Chute Award for Best Graduate Student Paper, the Gilbert Seldes
Prize for Public Scholarship, the Charles Hatfield Book Prize, and the CSS
Prize for Edited Book Collections. This year, we’re also introducing the CSS
Dissertation Prize
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For more information on the various CSS Prizes, see the CSS Website
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The CSS defines comic art as the category of artistic production that
incorporates all forms of cartooning, sequential art, and graphic
narrative. This includes, but is not limited to, the following forms: comic
strips, comic books, papers, and magazines; albums, graphic novels, and
other graphic books; webcomics and other electronic formats; single-panel
cartoons, including editorial and gag cartoons; caricature; animation; and
other related forms and traditions.

The CSS is currently soliciting nominations for all five prizes, which will
be awarded at the 5th Annual Conference of the Comics Studies Society (July
27th-29th, 2023). Winners will receive a $300 cash award and a plaque.
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conference details.

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   Nominations for the CSS prizes may be historical, biographical,
   critical, analytical, pedagogical, and/or bibliographical in focus.
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   Nominations should draw on original research, acknowledge and advance
   existing scholarship where relevant, and include appropriate documentation
   and citation.
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   Reprints of or excerpts from previously published works are not eligible
   for prizes.
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   Each piece of scholarship may only be nominated once across all
   categories of the CSS Prizes, and individuals nominated for a CSS Prize may
   only have one piece of scholarship competing in each category. However,
   nominees may compete simultaneously in multiple categories per awards
   cycle.
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   While individuals nominated for all CSS Prizes do not need to be
   members, only members can nominate scholars for the CSS Prizes. Please
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   to join the CSS.

For more information regarding the eligibility of CSS Executive Board
Members and information on past winners of the CSS Prizes, please see the CSS
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Frequency and time period: Prizes are awarded by the CSS at its annual
conference for first-time publications (not reprints or revised editions)
or (concerning the Chute only) unpublished work occurring during the
previous calendar year. For example, the 2023 prizes will cover
publications and presentations © 2022

Nomination process: Peer nominations and self-nominations are welcomed.
Nominations will be submitted through this Google Form
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and are due by April 15th, 2023. Nominations should include the following:

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   the work’s complete title, author(s) name(s), publisher, and original
   copyright date.
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   access to a complete digital copy of the work (such as a PDF or ebook, a
   link to a paywall-free article or media text, media file, etc.) that
   members of the CSS Prize Subcommittees can access as needed.

Nomination inquiries should be sent by email to the CSS Awards Coordinator,
Biz Nijdam, at comicssociety.awards at gmail.com.

Judging and awarding process: Nominees for each prize will be reviewed by
an Awards Subcommittee of not less than three members of the Comics Studies
Society, which is approved by the CSS Executive Board and includes the
Awards Coordinator and/or the Awards Subcommittee Chair. Prize winners will
be notified approximately two months prior to the annual conference and
announcements of their award will be published on the CSS website and in Inks:
The Journal of the Comics Studies Society.
-- 
*Dr. Elizabeth "Biz" Nijdam*  PhD (She, Her, Hers
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