Center for Robert Penn Warren Studies at WKU

About the Robert Penn Warren-Cleanth Brooks Award

Each year the Advisory Group offers the Robert Penn Warren-Cleanth Brooks Award for an outstanding work of literary scholarship or criticism published in that year that exemplifies, in the broadest sense, the spirit, scope, and standards represented by the critical tradition established by Warren and Brooks. In particular, the award is intended to recognize and honor work that employs in a significant way the methods associated with "close reading" of the texts. In the past, we have often invited the winner of the Warren-Brooks Award for Outstanding Literary Criticism to present a lecture at Western Kentucky University on the weekend of the Warren symposium.

For general information about the Warren-Brooks Award, including details on the nomination process, please contact Dr. Marla Zubel at rpw.center@wku.edu.  

To see a list of previous winners of the Warren-Brooks Award, click here: Previous Winners