The the René Wellek Prize recognizes an outstanding work in the field of literary and cultural theory. The 2012 René Wellek Prize comprises books published in the triennium 2009-2011, and the award will be presented at the ACLA Annual Meeting in 2012.

Congratulations to the 2010 winner of the René Wellek Prize:

Anne-Lise François. Open Secrets: The Literature of Uncounted Experience. Stanford: Stanford UP, 2007. ()

Congratulations to the 2010 Special Mention of the René Wellek Prize:

Barbara Johnson. Persons and Things. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2008. (CITATION)