Marco Caracciolo’s book, Slow Narrative and Nonhuman Materialities, published by Nebraska University Press in 2022, won the 2024 Barbara Perkins and George Perkins Prize. Slow Narrative and Nonhuman Materialities provides a significant exploration of contemporary narratives of the ecological crisis by focusing on slowness as a distinctive quality of narrative and its embodied reception to envision the interconnectedness of human communities and the nonhuman world. With this book, Caracciolo, who is the current Committee member, makes an outstanding contribution to the study of narrative through an innovative and sophisticated investigation of the challenge that climate as a complex nonlinear system poses to the human apprehension of environmental emergency.

More details about the prize can be found HERE.