I wanted to pass along the great news that my Cinema Journal article, "Reassuring Convergence / Online Fandom, Race and Disney's Notorious Song of the South," received Honorable Mention for the SCMS Kovacs Essay Award this year. This is a really prestigious award that goes to the top article in the field of film and media studies for its respective academic year. There are a lot of well-known folks who have won this award (and received honorable mention), so I'm in good company. I'm honored to have snagged a close second, and will be recognized at this year's awards ceremony in Boston.

Ironically, I have gotten down on this piece for awhile. For one, it didn't really help me on the job market (though I suppose it did help me get a contract for the book). Then there was this, which really hurt. For awhile, though I always had faith in its argument, the article's reception came to symbolize more of my failed goals--getting published in the field's top journal and yet doesn't receive any (positive) attention.

With the book coming on this summer, I think the window for the article by itself will have closed, and its nice to end that period on what is, in many ways, a very bittersweet achievement.