Feministas Unidas Essay Prize

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The winner of the Feministas Unidas Essay Prize 2007 is Janis Breckenridge, Hiram College with her essay “Performing Memory and Identity: Albertina Carri’s Los rubios”.

            The Executive Committee of Feministas Unidas, an allied organization of the MLA, is pleased to announce a call for papers for the Fifth Annual Feministas Unidas Essay Prize competition for scholars in the early stage of their career. The Feministas Unidas Essay Prize is awarded for an outstanding unpublished essay of feminist scholarship on women writers in the areas covered by our organization’s mission: Spanish, Spanish-American, Luso-Brazilian, Afro-Latin American, and U.S. Hispanic Studies.

            The purpose of the essay prize is to promote feminist scholarship on women writers by those who are entering our profession or who are in the early stages of their professional career. The prize is the product of collaboration between Feministas Unidas and the Asociación Internacional de Literatura Femenina Hispánica. The selection committee is drawn from officers and members of Feministas Unidas and the editorial board of Letras Femeninas. Feministas Unidas reserves the right not to award the prize in a given year.

AWARD: $200 and publication of the essay in the December issue of the journal Letras Femeninas.  The author of the winning essay must be a member of the Asociación de Literatura Femenina Hispánica at the time of publication of the essay.

ELIGIBILITY: Graduate students, instructors, lecturers and untenured assistant professors who are current or new members of Feministas Unidas are eligible to submit their original research for the prize.

GUIDELINES:

• An unpublished paper completed in the year 2007
• Length: 18-25 pages, double-spaced, including notes and works cited
• Format: MLA style.  Prepare the manuscript according to instructions for “Anonymous Submissions”
• Languages: Spanish or English
• Deadline for submission: August 15, 2008
• Announcement of award: September, 2008

ITEMS TO BE SUBMITTED:

• Essay
• 200-word abstract of the essay
• Author’s c.v.
• Submit all materials in the following ways: one hard copy and as an e-mail attachment

MAIL TO:

Prof. Carmen de Urioste

Dept. of Languages and Literatures

Arizona State University

Box 870202

Tempe, AZ 85287-0202

e-mail: carmen.urioste@asu.edu