Faculty Scholarship Featured During MLA Conference - Georgetown College

An examination of grief won English associate professor Dana Luciano a book prize at last month’s Modern Language Association (MLA) convention in San Francisco.

The 124th MLA conference, held from Dec. 27 to 30, served as a gathering opportunity for linguists and literary scholars and teachers -- including several Georgetown professors -- to share each other’s ideas and latest works and examine different forms of literary and critical traditions.

The MLA awarded Luciano with the 2008 Prize for a First Book for “Arranging Grief: Sacred Time and the Body in Nineteenth-Century America” (New York University Press 2007). The $1,000 award honors the first book-length publication of an MLA member.