Heartfelt congratulations to Annette!!

The Modern Language Association of America just announced they awarded the thirty-third annual Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies to Anaïs Maurer, assistant professor of French and comparative literature at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, for her book The Ocean on Fire: Pacific Stories from Nuclear Survivors and Climate Activists, published by Duke University Press.

Annette Damayanti Lienau, assistant professor of comparative literature at Harvard University, received an honorable mention for Sacred Language, Vernacular Difference: Global Arabic and Counter-Imperial Literatures, published by Princeton University Press. The prize is awarded annually for an outstanding scholarly work that is written by a member of the association and that involves at least two literatures.

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