Each year the Society awards a prize at its annual meeting to the best paper presented by an early-career scholar. Graduate students and recent PhDs are eligible (degree received within the past four years for those not yet employed in a tenure-track position; the past two years for those holding tenure-track positions).

Each year the Society awards a prize, sponsored by the T. S. Eliot Studies Annual, to the best seminar paper written by an early-career scholar. Graduate students and recent PhDs are eligible (degree received within the past four years for those not yet employed in a tenure-track position; the past two years for those holding tenure-track positions).