The honorees are Mary Elizabeth Hatten of Rockefeller University in New York City, Laura Micheletti Puaca of Christopher Newport University in Virginia, Beth Wilson of Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts, Nicole Lautze of the University of Hawaii, and Kelli McMahan of Baylor University in Waco, Texas.
A book edited by Laurie Grobman of the Berks campus of Pennsylvania State University and Roberta Rosenberg of Christopher Newport University in Newport News, Virginia, received the 2017 Teaching Literature Book Award from the department of English at Idaho State University.