OSL Awards: The results are in!

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14 March 2025

 

We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2024-2025 edition of the OSL Awards! 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. Please find the full list below:


ReMA Thesis

First prize: Imogen Grigorovich, ‘A Portrait with No Face: Trans Autofiction in a Time of Trans Visibility’, Utrecht University

Runner-up: Tom van Bunnik, ‘Poetry and the Manifold Commons: Towards a Poetics of the Commons from John Clare to Juliana Spahr’, Utrecht University


PhD Thesis

First prize: Andries Hiskes, ‘Disability and Its Affective Affordances: Deformity, Decay, Disruption, Distortion’, Leiden University

Runner-up: Duygu Erbil, ‘Remembering Deniz Gezmiş‘, Utrecht University


Peer-reviewed article

First prize: Sofía Forchieri (Radboud University), ‘Remembering for the future: Feminicide literary narratives and the formation of feminist collective subjects.’ Memory Studies, 18.1 (2025), 59-75. https://doi.org/10.1177/17506980231224755

Runner-up: Teun Joshua Brandt (University of Groningen), ‘The Holobiontic Figure: Narrative Complexities of Holobiont Characters in Joan Slonczewski’s Brain Plague.’ Open Cultural Studies, vol. 7, no. 1, 2023, pp. 20220201. https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2022-0201



Valorisation

First prize: Dr Leila Essa (Utrecht University), NWO Veni project ‘Intention and Intervention‘

Runner-up: Julia Neugarten (Radboud University), Masterclass for secondary schools Fanfictie: Wie, Wat, Waar, Waarom?


Our warmest congratulations to the winners, and to all those who submitted their work! This year’s jury consisted of Dr Vera Alexander (University of Groningen), Dr Jesse van Amelsvoort (University of Amsterdam), Dr. Alberto Godioli (University of Groningen), Prof. Sandra Ponzanesi (Utrecht University), Prof. Pablo Valdivia (University of Groningen) and Dr Marieke Winkler (Open Universiteit).