Adhaar Noor Desai Receives Modern Language Association Prize
Adhaar Noor Desai, associate professor of English at Bard College.
Adhaar Noor Desai, associate professor of English at Bard College, has been announced as a recipient of the Modern Language Association (MLA) Prize for First Book for Blotted Lines: Early Modern English Literature and the Poetics of Discomposition, published by Cornell University Press. The MLA Prize for a First Book was established in 1993 and is awarded annually for the first book-length publication by a member of the association that is a literary or linguistic study, a critical edition of an important work, or a critical biography. “In addition to its masterful and original treatment of English Renaissance poetry, Blotted Lines engages expertly with modern approaches in writing studies, offering a unique combination of two fields that Desai shows to be surprisingly complementary,” the MLA committee writes about Desai’s book. “This beautifully written, tremendously researched book raises important questions and offers a timely and thoughtful celebration of the art of composition (and discomposition).”
Post Date: 12-17-2024
Post Date: 12-17-2024