American Folklore Society Women’s Section

Call for Submissions 2011

Elli Köngäs-Maranda Prizes
American Folklore Society Women’s Section

Each year, the Women’s Section of the American Folklore Society awards two prizes in honor of pioneering scholar Elli Köngäs-Maranda. The prizes recognize superior work on women’s traditional, vernacular, or local culture and/or feminist theory and folklore.

Student Prize
· for an undergraduate or graduate student paper (up to 30 pages in length)
· entrants must either be currently enrolled in a degree program as of the submission deadline or have been enrolled in one during the 2008-2009 academic year
· carries an award of $100
· submission deadline is September 30, 2011
· may be submitted as either email attachment (preferred) or as hard copy


Professional/Non-Student Prize
· eligible work includes: publications, films, videos, exhibitions or exhibition catalogues, or sound recordings
· materials should have been published/produced no more than two years prior to the submission deadline
· carries an award of $250
· submission deadline (postmarked) is September 26, 2011
· please submit three copies of books, videos, etc.

The awards will be announced at the American Folklore Society Annual Meeting in Bloomington, IN, October 13 – 16, 2011. Prize recipients need not be members of the Society.

Please direct all submissions and questions to:

Jennifer Spitulnik-Hughes
University of Missouri
Department of English
114 Tate Hall
Columbia, MO 65211
jspitulnik@gmail.com