OSL Awards 2024: Call for Submissions
The call for the 2024 OSL Awards is now open! Just like last year, the awards consist of five categories: ‘published scholarly book’, ‘published article’, ‘PhD dissertation’, ‘ReMA thesis’ and ‘valorization‘. The Awards are intended to acknowledge original and innovative contributions to the field of literary studies and to highlight the work of talented OSL students and scholars. Each OSL Award comes with prize money of € 500,-.
Eligibility criteria:
- ‘Published scholarly book’ and ‘published article’: Participants must be OSL members who have obtained their PhD from 1 January 2020 onwards at OSL or a university outside the Netherlands. A completed PhD is not a requirement. The works must have been published in one of the modern European languages within the period 1 January 2020 – 15 November 2024. Publications that have been submitted for the OSL Awards in previous years are not eligible for the 2024 edition.
- ‘PhD dissertation’: Participants must be OSL PhD candidates who have submitted the final version of their dissertation between 1 January 2023 and 15 November 2024. Participants will have to provide evidence that the file they submitted constitutes the final version of their dissertation. A completed PhD is not a requirement.
- ‘ReMA thesis’: Participants must be OSL ReMA students who have submitted the final version of their thesis between 1 January 2023 and 15 November 2024. Participants will have to provide evidence that the file they submitted constitutes the final version of their thesis. A completed ReMA is not a requirement, but the thesis must have received a minimum grade of 8,0 by the date of submission.
- ‘Valorization‘: Any OSL member can participate by submitting a brief description (max. 1000 words) of a valorization activity or project they have conducted between 1 January 2023 and 15 November 2024. Participants are welcome to also provide additional evidence regarding their valorization activity (e.g. websites, newspaper articles, links to video recordings, etc.).
Procedure:
- Articles and other files should to be submitted as PDF to osl@rug.nl. Books can be submitted in digital form (if available); otherwise, a hardcopy should be sent to Netherlands School for Literary Studies (Prof. Dr. Pablo Valdivia and Dr Alberto Godioli), Harmony Building, Oude Kijk in ‘t Jatstraat 26, 9712 EK Groningen.
- The deadline for proposals for the 2024 OSL Awards is 15 November 2024, end of day.
- The winners of the OSL Awards will be announced in February 2025.
Awards Committee: to be announced.
We look forward to your submissions!
Winners of previous editions
