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Latest News
We were delighted to announce the winners of this year's Book Awards and AATSEEL Awards for Teaching, Service, and Scholarship at the Conference. Please review the list of winners and citations for the Book Awards and AATSEEL Awards. Congratulations to all winners!
We are pleased to announce that the program for the AATSEEL 2026 Conference is live! AATSEEL 2026 Conference Program
We are pleased to announce our shortlist of nominees for the 2025 AATSEEL Book Awards. Please view our shortlist here.
Congratulations to our new Vice Presidents, Jillian Porter and Emily Wang!. Thank you for your service to AATSEEL, and thank you to the members for voting!
Registration for the AATSEEL 2026 Conference and the hotel room block booking are now open! To register for the conference, go to the Conference Registration page . To book your room for the conference, go to New Orleans Hotel Booking Page.
AATSEEL is pleased to announce that the Slavic and East European Journal is transitioning to a new editorial team. Starting on August 1, 2025 and with the Winter issue 69.4, Professor George Gasyna (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) will assume the role of Editor. Dr. Gasyna is a specialist in Polish and Central European languages, literatures, cultures, and cinema. Professor Sofya Khagi (University of Michigan) will take on the role of Associate Editor. Dr. Khagi has a primary focus on twentieth- and twenty-first century Russian literature and Baltic literatures and cultures. Dr. Serenity Stanton Orengo, who has several years’ experience as SEEJ’s editorial assistant, will become the journal’s Managing Editor.
As AATSEEL welcomes the new team, we would like to express our enormous thanks to the outgoing editorial team, Dr. Yana Hashamova and Dr. Alexander Burry. They have been at the helm for the past eight years, leading the journal as a vital forum for scholarly discussions in our field. We also want to thank the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the Ohio State University for its financial support for SEEJ over the past eight years.
We are very grateful to the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign for its financial and moral support in making this transition possible. We would also like to express our profound gratitude to all the AATSEEL members who contributed to the SEEJ fund that will help support the journal over the next three years.
We encourage AATSEEL members to submit their scholarly work to SEEJ and the SEEJ Blog. Editorial policies and submission details will continue to be housed at: www.seej.org, and the new editors can be contacted at: editors@seej.org
Proposal submissions are open for the 2026 AATSEEL Conference! The 2026 AATSEEL conference will be held February 19-22, 2026 in New Orleans, LA at the Sheraton New Orleans. Go to this page for more Conference information.
The list of Nominees for the 2025 AATSEEL Book Awards has been released! Please find the list here.
It is traditional for outgoing Presidents to write a brief message for the membership. Please find the Message from Karen Evans-Romaine here. Thank you, Karen, for your service to AATSEEL. Welcome, Bill Comer, as AATSEEL's new acting President.
The winners of the 2024 AATSEEL Book Awards were announced this week at the AATSEEL 2025 Virtual Conference! The titles of the winning books, each accompanied by an award citation, can be found on this page.
The 2024 recipients of the AATSEEL Awards for Teaching, Service, and Scholarship were announced Friday, February 21 at the AATSEEL 2025 Conference Members' Meeting and Awards Ceremony. The names of the winners and accompanying citations are available at this link.
Congratulations to our new incoming President, Colleen McQuillen, and new Vice Presidents, Tony Lin and Lara Ravitch! Thank you for your service to AATSEEL, and thank you to the members for voting!
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Awards and Prizes
AATSEEL Book Awards
The AATSEEL Publications Committee is responsible for overseeing the appointment of editors for the Slavic and East European Journal, and also for the award of prizes for publications in the various disciplines participating in AATSEEL.