December 1 -- The Modern Language Association of America today announced it is awarding its eighth Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Slavic Languages and Literatures to Edyta M. Bojanowska, of Rutgers University, for her book Nikolai Gogol: Between Ukrainian and Russian Nationalism, published by Harvard University Press. The prize is awarded biennially for an outstanding scholarly work on the linguistics or literatures of the Slavic languages, including Belarussian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Polish, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, and Ukrainian.

The prize is one of eighteen awards 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.).

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