The BSLS is happy to announce the shortlist for the 2025 monograph prize:
- Richard Fallon, Contesting Earth’s History in Transatlantic Literary Culture, 1860-1935 (Oxford University Press)
- N. Katherine Hayles, Bacteria to AI: Human Futures with Our Nonhuman Symbionts (University of Chicago Press)
- Meegan Kennedy, Writing Embodiment in Victorian Microscopy: Beautiful Mechanism (Oxford University Press)
- Shannon Lambert, Science and Affect in Contemporary Literature: Bodies of Knowledge – Explorations in Science and Literature (Bloomsbury)
- Sandhya Shetty, Imperial Pharmakon: Writing and Medicine in the Long Nineteenth Century (Palgrave)
The winner will be announced at the 2026 conference dinner in Glasgow and will be published here as soon as possible after that.
The shortlist for the essay collection prize will be announced later in the year.

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