Katherine Singer Kovács

After a 1974 PhD 'Flaubert's Le rêve et la vie: a new theatrical conception' from Harvard Kovacs, worked at the University of Southern California and Whittier College before she died of cancer in 1989.

Two awards were founded in her honour, the Modern Language Association Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize for the best book published in Latin American and Spanish Studies and the Society for Cinema and Media Studies awards for the best book and article in film studies.

Awarded annual by the MLA since 1989–90[3]

• 2020 Kendrick, Anna Kathryn. Humanizing Childhood in Early Twentieth-Century Spain. Legenda, 2020.[4][5]
• 2019 Jones, Nicholas R. Staging Habla de Negros. Penn State University Press, 2019.[6][7]
• 2018 Conde, Maite. Foundational Films. University of California Press, 2018.[8][9]
• 2017 Arce, B. Christine. Mexico's nobodies: The cultural legacy of the soldadera and Afro-Mexican women. SUNY Press, 2016.[10]
• 2016 Gates-Madsen, Nancy J. Trauma, taboo, and truth-telling: Listening to silences in postdictatorship Argentina. University of Wisconsin Press, 2016.[11]
• 2015 Fernández, Enrique. Anxieties of Interiority and Dissection in Early Modern Spain. University of Toronto Press, 2015.[12]
• 2014 Sieburth, Stephanie. Survival Songs: Conchita Piquer's' Coplas' and Franco's Regime of Terror. University of Toronto Press, 2014.
• 2013 Moraña, Mabel. "Arguedas/Vargas Llosa: dilemas y ensamblajes." Palgrave Macmillan. 2013.
• 2012 Rappaport, Joanne., and Tom Cummins. Beyond the Lettered City. Duke University Press, 2012.
• 2011 Gerli, E. Michael. Celestina and the Ends of Desire. University of Toronto Press, 2010.
• 2010 Merrim, Stephanie. The spectacular city, Mexico, and colonial Hispanic literary culture. University of Texas Press, 2010.
• 2009 Voigt, Lisa. Writing captivity in the early modern Atlantic. UNC Press. 2009.
• 2008 Gómez, Nicolás Wey. The tropics of empire: Why Columbus sailed south to the Indies.MIT Press, 2008.
• 2007 Adorno, Rolena. The polemics of possession in Spanish American narrative. Yale University Press, 2008.
• 2006 Childers, William. Transnational Cervantes. University of Toronto Press, 2006.
• 2005 Gallo, Rubén. Mexican modernity: The avant-garde and the technological revolution. MIT Press, 2005.
• 2004 Fischer, Sibylle. Modernity disavowed. Duke University Press, 2004.
• 2003 Taylor, Diana. The archive and the repertoire. Duke University Press, 2003.
• 2002 Valis, Noël. The Culture of cursilería. Duke University Press, 2003.
• 2001 Black, Georgina Dopico. Perfect wives, other women. Duke University Press, 2001.
• 2000 Julien, Catherine. Reading Inca history. University of Iowa press, 2000.
• 1999 Avelar, Idelber. The untimely present. Duke University Press, 1999.
• 1998 Frances Aparicio. Listening to Salsa: Gender, Latin Popular Music, and Puerto Rican Cultures Wesleyan Univ. Press, 1997.
• 1997 McKnight, Kathryn Joy. "The Mystic of Tunja: The Writings of Madre Castillo." U of Massachusetts Press (1997).
• 1996 Sorensen, Sorensen. Facundo and the construction of Argentine culture. University of Texas Press, 1996.
• 1995 Mignolo, Walter. The darker side of the Renaissance: Literacy, territoriality, and colonization. University of Michigan Press, 1995.
• 1994 Slater, Candace. Dance of the dolphin: transformation and disenchantment in the Amazonian imagination. University of Chicago Press, 1994.
• 1993 Zamora, Margarita. Reading Columbus. University of California Press, 1993.
• 1992 Benítez-Rojo, Antonio. The Repeating Island: The Caribbean and the Postmodern Perspective (Duke Univ. Press, 1992)
• 1991 Mariscal, George. Contradictory Subjects. Cornell University Press, 2018.
• 1989-1990 Echevarría, Roberto González, and Roberto González Echevarría. Myth and archive: a theory of Latin American narrative. Duke University Press, 1998.

• 2021 Rebecca Wanzo for 'The Content of Our Caricature: African American Comic Art and Political Belonging'[13][14]
• 2020 Sarah C J Street and Joshua Yumibe for 'Chromatic Modernity: Color, Cinema, and Media of the 1920s'[15][16][17]
• 2019
• 2018 Karl Schoonover and Rosalind Galt for 'Queer cinema in the world'[18]
• 2017 Thomas Waugh for 'The conscience of cinema : the films of Joris Ivens, 1912-1989'[18]
• 2016 Yeidy M. Rivero 'Broadcasting modernity : Cuban commercial television, 1950-1960 '[18]
• 2015 David O. Rodowick for 'Elegy for theory'
• 2014 James Tweedie 'Age of New Waves: Art Cinema and the Staging of Globalization'[19][18]
• 2013 Miriam Bratu Hansen for 'Cinema and experience : Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor W. Adorno'[18]
• 2012 Timothy Corrigan for 'The Essay Film: From Montaigne, After Marker'[20]
• 2011 Thomas Lamarre for 'The anime machine: a media theory of animation'[18]
• 2010 Zusana M. Pick for 'Constructing the image of the Mexican Revolution : cinema and the archive'[18]
• 2009 Victoria E. Johnson for 'Heartland TV: Prime Time Television and the Struggle for U.S. Identity'[21][22][23]

• Kovács, Katherine Singer. "Georges Méliès and the" Féerie"." Cinema Journal (1976): 1-13.
• Kovács, Katherine Singer. "Luis Buñuel and Pierre Louÿs: two visions of obscure objects." Cinema Journal (1979): 87-98.
• Kovács, Katherine Singer. "Gustave Flaubert and "Le rêve et la vie"." (1977).