Congratulations to Edyta M. Bojanowska of Rutgers re MLA Prize

[Natalia Pylypiuk]

Dear Colleagues,

This is marvelous news for the profession. Edyta Bojanowska's book is  
most deserving of the prize and of attentive reading.

Congratulations, Professor Bojanowska!

Sincerely,
Professor Natalia Pylypiuk
Ukrainian Culture, Language & Literature Program
[www.arts.ualberta.ca/~ukraina/]
MLCS, 200 Arts, University of Alberta


On 8-Dec-09, at 11:04 AM, Alex Rudd wrote:

> Dear SEELANGS list members,
>
>
> MLA AWARDS ALDO AND JEANNE SCAGLIONE PRIZE FOR SLAVIC LITERARY STUDIES
> TO EDYTA M. BOJANOWSKA FOR NIKOLAI GOGOL: BETWEEN UKRAINIAN AND
> RUSSIAN NATIONALISM [...]
>
> The prize is one of eighteen awards that will be presented on 28
> December 2009 during the association's annual convention, held this
> year in Philadelphia. The members of the 2009 selection committee were
> Gabriella Safran (Stanford Univ.); Barry Scherr (Dartmouth Coll.),
> chair; and William Mills Todd III (Harvard Univ.). The committee's
> citation for the winning book reads:
>
> “Nikolai Gogol: Between Ukrainian and Russian Nationalism contains a
> major new interpretation of one of Russia's most difficult writers. As
> the subtitle indicates, Edyta M. Bojanowska does not place Gogol in
> one tradition or the other but instead, in a series of carefully
> nuanced analyses, discusses how his writings contributed to both
> Ukrainian and Russian nationalist models. She traces in fine detail
> the development of his ideas and in the process sheds light on works
> by Gogol that have generally received less attention from critics.
> Equally at ease in presenting theories of nationalism and in carrying
> out close textual readings, Bojanowska has produced a study that will
> have a lasting influence on future Gogol scholarship.”
>

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