The Max Kade Foundation has generously funded a Max Kade Prize for Best Article in Modern Austrian Literature, awarded at the annual conference of MALCA. The winner of the $1500 award is identified from among the articles published in the journal that year, based on a poll of the editoral board.

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Max Kade Prize Winners

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2015

Nikhil Sathe, "Just in Time: Erwin Wagenhofer's Appropriation of the Classical Western Genre in Black Brown White (2011)"
(Volume 47, Number 4, Winter 2014 ) | download article

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2014

Gundolf Graml, "We Love Our Heimat, but We Need Foreigners: Tourism and the Reconstruction of Austria, 1945 - 55"
(Volume 46, Number 3, Fall 2013) | download article

2013

(for the Journal years 2011 - 2012)
Kata Gellen, "The Media Myth of America: Joseph Roth’s Hiob and Tabaras"
(Volume 45, Numbers 3 - 4, Winter 2012) | download article

2011

Neil Christian Pages "What's Hidden in Caché,"
vol. 43, #2 (2010)
Prize Announcement; download article and Award Page

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Between the 2010 and 2011 volumes, the Austrian Studies Association's journal was renamed The Journal of Austrian Studies, with continuous volume numbers from its predecessor.

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2010

Robert Lemon, "Imperial Mystique and Empiricist Mysticism: Inner Colonialism and Exoticism in Musil's Törleß,"
vol. 42, #1 (2009)
Prize Announcement; download article and Award Page

2009

Lorraine Markotic, "Melancholy and Lost Desire in the Work of Marlen Haushofer,"
vol. 41, # 1 (2008)
Prize Announcement; download article and Award Page

2008

Jakob Norberg, "The Black Book: Karl Kraus's Etiqiette"
vol. 40, #2 (2007)
Prize Announcement; download article

2007

Daniela Strigl, "Gegen die Wand: Zu Elfriede Jelineks Lektüre von Marlen Haushofers Roman in Der Tod und das Mädchen V,," vol. 39, #3-4 (2006)
Prize Announcement; download article

2006

Karin Baumgartner, "Staging the German Nation": Caroline Pichler's Heinrich von Hohenstaufen and Ferdinand II,"
vol. 37, # 1-2 (2004)
Prize Announcement; download article

2002-2005

J. J. Long, "'Die Teufelskunst unserer Zeit'?: Photographic Negotiations in Thomas Bernhard's Auslöschung,"
vol. 35, # 3-4 (2002)
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