Six members of the FAS faculty, representing African American Studies, Comparative Literature, English, French, Music, and Slavic Languages and Literatures were awarded prizes or honorable mentions by the Modern Language Association for outstanding scholarly work:
Katerina Clark, Comparative Literature and Slavic Languages and Literatures
Winner of the 7th Annual Matei Calinescu Prize for a distinguished work of scholarship in twentieth- or twenty-first-century literature and thought for Eurasia without Borders: The Dream of a Leftist Literary Commons, 1919–1943 (Belknap Press of Harvard Univ. Press, 2021)
Jill Jarvis, French
Winner of the 30th Annual Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for French and Francophone Studies for Decolonizing Memory: Algeria and the Politics of Testimony (Duke Univ. Press, 2021)
Jessica Gabriel Peritz, Music
Winner of the 25th Annual Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Publication Award for a Manuscript in Italian Studies for The Lyric Myth of Voice: Civilizing Song in Enlightenment Italy (Univ. of California Press, 2022)
Shane Vogel, African American Studies and English
Winner of the 59th Annual William Riley Parker Prize for an outstanding article in PMLA for “Waiting for Godot and the Racial Theater of the Absurd” (PMLA,
January 2022)
Erica R. Edwards, African American Studies and English
Honorable mention, 53rd Annual James Russell Lowell Prize for The Other Side of Terror: Black Women and the Culture of US Empire (New York Univ. Press, 2021)
Juno Richards, English
Honorable mention, 13th Modern Language Association Prize for Collaborative, Bibliographical, or Archival Scholarship for The Ferrante Letters: An Experiment in
Collective Criticism (Columbia Univ. Press, 2020), with Sarah Chihaya, Princeton University; Merve Emre, University of Oxford; and Katherine Hill, Adelphi University
A full news release is available on the MLA website.