2024 Claudia Rankine, American poet, essayist, playwright and the editor, For Reel, For Real: New Approaches to (Auto)biography
2022 David Gramling, University of British Columbia on unceded Musquam territory, Vancover, Canada, Literature in Late Mono/lingualism
2019 Michael K. Bourdaghs, Michima in Bandung: Rethinking Postwar Japanese Literature as Cold War Literature
2019 Emily Wilson, Translating the Odyssey Again: How and Why
2018 Jens Andermann, "In the Flesh: Bio Art, Trans-Species Aesthetics and the Question of Technology"
2017 Bruno Carvalho, Forms of the Informal: "Modernist Poetry, Urbanism, and Street Life in 1920s Brazil"
2016 Lisa Nakamura, "Workers Without Bodies: A Feminist Critique of Labor on the Internet Lecturer"
2015 Eric H. Cline, "1177 B.C. The Year Civilization Collapsed"
2015 James Phelan, Affect and Ethics in Roz Chast's "Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?
2014 Lorie Novak, "Photographic Interference"
2013 Michael Rothberg, "What Does It Mean to Inherit the Past? Holocaust Memory Through the Migrant Lens"
2012 Peter Brooks, "Late Work"
2011 Teddy Cruz, "Creative Acts of Citizenship: Performing Neighborhoods"
2010 Susan Meiselas, "In History"
2009 Robert J.C. Young, "Migration and Globalization, from Benjamin to Fanon"
2008 Timothy Brennan, "Intellectual Labor"
2007 Patricia Yaeger, "Throwaway Robots and Luminous Trash"
2006 Simon Gikandi, "On Theory and Exile"
2005 Caryl Emerson, "In Search of the Dialogic Novel"
2004 Jean Franco, "Worrying about the Aztecs: The Strange Case of Coatlicue"
2003 Ihab Hassan, "Realism, Truth and Trust: The Distance of the Other"
2002 Maria Tatar, "Storytelling and Survival: Bedtime Tales from Scheherazad to Peter Pan"
2001 Froma Zeitlin, "Apollo and Dionysus: Starting from Birth"
2000 Barbara Johnson, "Headnotes: Anthologies and Authorities"
1999 Susan Gubar, "Feminism's Racechanges"
1998 Edward Said, "No Reconciliation Possible: Exile and Self Invention"
1997 Bruce Robbins, "Harried: The Spaces and Times of Intellectual Work"
1996 Doris Sommer, "Proceed with Caution: A Rhetoric of Particularism"
1995 Linda Hutcheon, "The Tragedy of the Post-Ironic Condition: Irony, Nostalgia and the Post-Modern"
1994 Biddy Martin, "Sexualities Without Gender and Other Queer Utopias"
1993 Homi Bhabha, "By Bread Along: Of Native Soldiers and British Butlers"
1992 Chérrie Moraga, "Making Art in América, con acento"
1991 Douglas Crimp, "Portraits of People with AIDS"
1990 Chandra Mohanty, "Cartographics of Struggle: On Specifying 'Third World Feminisms"
1989 Ngugi wa Thiong'O, "Language and Liberation"
1988 Michael Denning, "People's Theater/Radio Pictures: The Politics of Citizen Cane"
1987 Henry Louis Gates, "White Power and the Black Critic"
1986 Hayden White, "The Rebirth of Rhetoric"
1985 Beatriz Sarlo, "Intellectual Field-Politics and Fiction in Argentina (1976-84)"
1984 Robert Gonzalez Echevarria, "Socrates Among the Weeds: Blacks and History in Carpentier's Explosion in a Catherdral"