The Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics is delighted to announce that Dr Doyle D. Calhoun, University Assistant Professor of Francophone Postcolonial Studies at Cambridge, has been awarded the Modern Language Association’s Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for French and Francophone Studies for his book The Suicide Archive: Reading Resistance in the Wake of French Empire (Duke University Press).

This prestigious prize, now in its thirty-third year, recognises an outstanding scholarly work in the field of French or Francophone linguistic or literary studies. Dr Calhoun’s monograph was selected for its innovative readings of resistance, memory, and the afterlives of French empire.

The MLA also awarded two honourable mentions:

• Professor Antónia Szabari, University of Southern California, for Agents without Empire: Mobility and Race-Making in Sixteenth-Century France (Fordham University Press)

• Professor Geoffrey Turnovsky, University of Washington, Seattle, for Reading Typographically: Immersed in Print in Early Modern France (Stanford University Press)

The Faculty warmly congratulates Dr Calhoun for this significant achievement and extends its recognition to the honourable mention recipients for their contributions to the field.

A full copy of the MLA press release is available here