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Adela Zamudio Essay Prize
Each year, Feministas Unidas grants the “Adela Zamudio Award” to recognize the best peer-reviewed work (book, article, or book chapter) published by a current member. Eligible works should engage with feminist, gender, queer, or transatlantic studies, or explore intersections of race and gender in literature and film. The selection committee includes officers, members, and past recipients. The award is presented at the MLA Annual Convention and announced on the Feministas Unidas website. For additional information, please contact: president.feministasund@gmail.com
Link to Call for Submissions
Eligibility: Works published between January 1, 2024, and December 31, 2024. The call closes on September 30th of the current year.
Google Form Submission for Adela Zamudio Prize
The winner will receive:
* A year of free membership in Feministas Unidas.
* An online certificate of having won the contest.
* A monetary prize in the amount of $350 (USD) for the work that places first.
* A monetary prize in the amount of $150 (USD) for the work that places second.
Past winners of the Adela Zamudio Essay Prize
2024: First Prize: Diana Aramburu (University of California, Davis), for her essay, “A Feminicide Vocation?: Examining the Gender Violence Crisis in Ana María Fuster Lavín’s La marejada de los muertos y otras pandemias.”
Second Prize: Elena Blázquez (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) for her essay, “La obra de Helena Lumbreras como práctica cinematográfica feminista.”
2023: First Prize: Rebeca L. Hey-Colón (Temple University) for her essay, “Chronic Illness and Transformation in Gloria Anzaldúa’s Puddles."
Second Prize: Vanesa Miseres (University of Notre Dame) for her essay, “Cooking and Feminism Through Latin American Literature.”
2022: First Prize: Eva París-Huesca (Ohio Wesleyan University) for her essay, “Let Us Not Forget: Female Agency and Historical (Dis)remembering in Patricia Ferreira’s Film Sé quién eres.”
Second Prize: Luz Ainaí Morales Pino (Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Perú) for her essay, “Moribundas habladoras: contestaciones al ideario patriarcal en El Conspirador (1892), Incurables (1905), y La rosa muerta (1914).”
2021: First Prize: Patrick Ridge (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University) for his essay "Thunder and Terror: Storm as Allegory in Tatiana Huezo’s Tempestad".
2020: First Prize: Thomas Antorino (Loyola University MD) for his essay "Gender and the Question of Modernity in Early Twentieth-Century Spain: De-Essentializing Femininity in Ángela Barco's 'Fémina' (1910)".
2019: First Prize: Alejandra Aguilar Dornelles (Albany-SUNY) for her essay “Activismo, literatura y cambio social en el Caribe hispano: aproximación en tres movimientos.”
Second Prize: Lorraine Ryan (University of Birmingham): “Maternal Identities and Abject Equivalence in Biutiful”.
2018: First Prize: Sharon Keefe-Ugalde (Texas State University) for her essay: "Las poetas de la generación del 50 y la imaginería indumentaria".
Second Prize: Rebecca M. Bender (Kansas State University) for her essay: "Fashion, Ekphrasis, and the Avant-Garde Novel: Carmen de Burgos's La mujer fantástica (1924)".
Emilia Pardo Bazán Award
Each year, Feministas Unidas grants the Emilia Pardo Award. The theme of this award is the same as that of the Adela Zamudio Prize; however, in this case, only graduate students are eligible to apply. Submissions must be unpublished and must not have been submitted to any journal or publisher. The selection committee includes officers, members, and past recipients. The award is presented at the MLA Annual Convention and announced on the Feministas Unidas website. For additional information, please contact: president.feministasund@gmail.com .
Link to Call for Submissions
Eligibility: Any work that has not been previously published. The call closes on November 30 of the current year.
Google Form Submission for Emilia Pardo Bazán Award
The winner will receive:
* A year of free membership in Feministas Unidas
* An online certificate of having won the contest.
* A monetary prize of $200 (USD)
* Publication of the essay in the journal Ámbitos Feministas. The winning essay will receive corresponding editorial comments from the editor of Ámbitos Feministas in preparation for publication.
Past winners of the Emilia Pardo Bazán Prize
2024: Aned Ladino, Georgetown University, “Sonic Homeplace: Afro-Female Resistance and Reparations in Lido Pimienta’s Miss Colombia (2020).”
2023: Nora René Muñiz Hernández, Princeton University. “Escatón con glitter: las protestas feministas en Ciudad de México en 2019-2020.”
2022: María Victoria Muñoz Cortizo, University of Florida. “Aventuras de la liminalidad: la transgresión de los límites del género gauchesco en Las aventuras de la China Iron de Gabriela Cabezón Cámara. Un estudio biopolítico.”
2021: Ángela Acosta, The Ohio State University. “Imagining Queer Futures through the Autobiographical Self: Queer Womanhood in Elena Fortún’s Oculto sendero.”
2020: No winner selected this year.
2019: Paola Uparella, University of Notre Dame. “Guaman Poma y la güergüenza colonial.”
2018: No winner selected this year.
2017: April Knupp, Arizona State University. “Disability and Illness in Lina Meruane’s Sangre en el ojo: A Disability Theory Approach.”
2016: Lilianne Lugo Herrera, University of Miami. “Melancolía y autoexposición: Los perturbados entre lilas de Alejandra Pizarnik y Melancolía y manifestaciones de Lola Arias.”
2015: Vera Coleman, Arizona State University-Tempe. “El huso en el centro del universo: el entrelazamiento cuántico en la poesía visual de Cecilia Vicuña.”
2014: Francisca Aguiló Mora, University of Miami. “Memory Mambo de Achy Ovejas: bailando al son de lo local en un imaginario post-nacional.”
2013: Jennifer Byron, Arizona State University-Tempe.“Wordtoy: La colección de poesía digital de Belén Gaché que desmantela la noción de la literatura tradicional y la etiqueta de la escritura femenina.”
2012: No winner selected this year.
2011: Betsy Dahms.”Shamanic Urgency and Two-Way Movement as Writing Style in the Works of Gloria Anzaldúa.”
2010: Olena Shkatulo, Indiana University. “Spain, 'Others', and European Modernity in Emilia Pardo Bazán's Parisian Travel Narratives.”
2009: Ruth Brown, University of Kentucky. “El activismo local de Maquilapolis: armonizando la mirada femenina con una política de lugar.”
2008: Nadina Olmedo, University of Kentucky. “Gótico y género: El viaje decapitado de La mujer desnuda.”
2007: Janice Breckenridge, Hiram College.“Performing Memory and Identity: Albertina Carri’s Los rubios.”
2006: Debra Faszer-McMahon, UC Irvine.“Women and the Discourse of Underdevelopment in Rosa Chacel’s Memorias de Leticia Valle.”
2005: Emily Hind.“De Rosario Castellanos al Hombre Ilustre, o, entre dicho y hecho hay un problemático pecho.”
2004: Jana Francesca Gutiérrez, Auburn University. “Finally Free: The Female Artist and the City in Dulce Maria Loynaz’s Jardín.”
2003 Amy Bell, Texas Wesleyan University. “Razing Their Voices: Carmen de Burgo’s Subtextual Revisions of the Works of José Zorrilla and Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer.”
Creative Prize for Artistic & Literary Work
Each year, Feministas Unidas grants two creative awards—one for artistic work and one for literary work. The theme of these awards is the same as that of the Adela Zamudio Prize. Submissions must not have been published or submitted to any journal or publisher. The selection committee is composed of members, and past recipients. The award is presented at the MLA Annual Convention and announced on the Feministas Unidas website. For additional information, please contact: president.feministasund@gmail.com
Eligibility: Any work that has not been previously published, or, if it has, must include a justification of significant revisions. The call closes on November 30th of the current year.
Google Form Submission for Creative & Literary Work
The winner will receive:
* A year of free membership in Feministas Unidas
* An online certificate of having won the contest.
* A monetary prize of $75 (USD) for the artistic creation and $75 (USD) for the literary creation
* Publication of the work in the journal Ámbitos Feministas. The winning essay will receive corresponding editorial comments from the editor of Ámbitos Feministas in preparation for publication.
Past winners of this award
2024 Creative Prize for Literature: Tina Escaja, University of Vermont, for her work, “Nombrar el cosmos.”
2024 Creative Prize for Artistic Production: Miguel Ángel Sosme, Independent Scholar, “Cosmos.”
2023 Creative Prize for Literature: Ángela Acosta, University of South Carolina, for her work, “Poetic Tributes to 'las Sinsombrero': The Legacies of Modern Spanish Women.”
2023 Creative Prize for Artistic Production: Teresa Irene Barrera Figueroa, Independent Scholar, for her work, “Brujas.”