“Javier Coy” Biennial Research Awards

2025,2026 publications | deadline: january 15, 2027

SAAS wishes to recognize the research achievements of its members through the Javier Coy Biennial Research Awards. The goal of these awards is to promote high-quality scholarship in the field of American Studies, and to celebrate the originality and excellence of research carried out within SAAS. All SAAS members are eligible to submit work in the following categories: Best Monograph, Best Journal Article, Best Edited Volume, Best REN Article.

Best Monograph (700€) open to original volumes (joint authorship is possible) published in 2025 or 2026. A monograph is understood as a single volume on a specific subject, containing original research material. Literary translations and scholarly editions are excluded.Best Edited Volume (500€) seeks to recognize outstanding edited collections of articles published in 2025 or 2026 in book form.
Best Journal Article (300€) is intended to honor original research articles published in 2025 or 2026 in a specialized research journal of international scope and high impact rate.Best REN Article (200€) open to original research articles published in Revista de Estudios Norteamericanos. All articles appearing in REN since the last SAAS conference will be considered, unless otherwise stated by the authors.

The authors, who have to be SAAS members at the time of submission, should send their work, as attachment in a digital format* to Esther Álvarez López ( eal@uniovi.es ) with the subject “submission for Javier Coy Award” . Only one item across all categories can be submitted by each member. Works under consideration for another award (or already awarded works) will be excluded. Following the SAAS board’s agreement, the composition of the jury will not be made public. The jury’s decision, which is unappealable, will be made public during the members’ general assembly at the biennial conference (18th SAAS Conference, Oviedo, Spring 2027). Deadline for submissions: January 15, 2027.

*(if only hard copies are available, use this postal address)

LAST AWARDEES (saas 17, ALICANTE 2025)

Best Monograph:
Daniel McKay, Beyond Hostile Islands: The Pacific War in American and New Zealand Fiction Writing (Fordham University Press, 2024). 		Best Edited Volume:
María Antonia Oliver-Rotger and Pere Gifrá-Adroher, (In)Hospitable Encounters in Chicanx and Latinx Literature and Thought (Routledge, 2024).
Best Journal Article:
Álvaro Albarrán Gutiérrez, “Rompiendo el silencio: La última luna menguante (1986), teatro norteamericano y la llegada del VIH/ sida a España.” Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, vol. 101, issue 7, 1043–1070.		Best REN Article:
María Dolores Narbona Carrión, “Transcending the Limitations of 19th Century Women’s Domestic Sphere and Fiction: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps’ Contribution.” Revista de Estudios Norteamericanos, vol. 28 (2024), 21-51.