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Portrait of Leonid Livak
(photo by Diana Tyszko)

Leonid Livak wins Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Slavic Languages and Literatures

Leonid Livak has won the prestigious Modern Language Association (MLA)鈥檚 .

Awarded biennially, the prize celebrates outstanding scholarly work on the linguistics or literatures of Slavic languages. Livak, a professor in , was recognized for .

Calling it a 鈥渂old undertaking鈥 and a 鈥渕odel of exemplary scholarship.鈥 the MLA committee commended the work for confronting 鈥渋nherited assumptions about the field, including its canons and methodologies鈥 for critical analysis.

鈥淭he MLA prize is not just a Slavic prize, it鈥檚 a general prize in literary studies,鈥 Livak said. 鈥淪o I'm hoping that this will open the much overdue discussion about how we speak about Russian modernism, the questions we ask about Russian modernism and how it fits within transnational modernist studies.鈥

Faculty of Arts & Science