BritCultTo encourage and acknowledge early-career researchers’ work in British Cultural Studies, the German Association for the Study of British Cultures awards a biennial prize worth up to 1,000 euros for the best new monograph (either PhD theses, habilitation theses, or second books) in the field.
Deadline: 15 April 2025
Eligible: works reviewed (second book: published or accepted for publication) within 24 months prior to the deadline
Please also refer to the selection criteria for the award (last updated 2025, also available in German).
The jury decided not to award the BritCult Award this year.
As a result of this decision, the Association published selection criteria for future awards (also available in German) in 2025.
Victoria Allen. Industrial Memory in North(east)ernness: A PopCultural Portfolio. PhD thesis.
Lisa Ahrens. (Interactive) Heterotopic Spaces and the Politics of Destabilisation: The Transformative Potential of Black British and British Muslim Literature. PhD thesis.
Claudia Lillge. Arbeit: Eine Literatur- und Mediengeschichte Großbritanniens. Habilitation thesis.
Monika Pietrzak-Franger. Spectres of Syphilis: Medicine, Knowledge and the Spectacle of Victorian (In)Visibility. Habilitation thesis.
Cornelia Wächter. The Warder within: Prison Officer Stereotypes and Their Deconstruction in British Literature. PhD thesis.
Lucia Krämer. Bollywood in Britain. Habilitation thesis.
Stephan Karschay. Deviant Subjects: Degeneration, Normativity and the Gothic at the Fin de Siècle. PhD thesis.
Ellen Grünkemeier. Breaking the Silence: South African Representations of HIV/AIDS. PhD thesis.
Elahe Haschemi Yekani. The Privilege of Crisis. Narrative Patterns of Masculinities in English Colonial and Postcolonial Literature, Photography and Film. PhD thesis.
Lars Eckstein. Song Texts: A Cultural Rhetoric of English Lyrics. Habilitation thesis.