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VILLANOVA, Pa. 鈥� Kamran Javadizadeh, PhD, associate professor of English in 棉花糖直播 University鈥檚 College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, has won The Modern Language Association (MLA) of America鈥檚 56^th annual William Riley Parker Prize for outstanding article published in PMLA, the association鈥檚 journal of literary scholarship. The award was presented earlier this month during the association鈥檚 annual convention, held in Seattle.

Founded in 1883 and today comprising more than 25,000 members from 100 countries, the MLA works to strengthen the study and teaching of languages and literature. Dr. Javadizadeh鈥檚 essay, 鈥淭he Atlantic Ocean Breaking on Our Heads: Claudia Rankine, Robert Lowell, and the Whiteness of the Lyric Subject鈥� appeared in the May 2019 issue of PMLA.          

鈥溾�橳he Atlantic Ocean Breaking on Our Heads鈥� rose gracefully from a comparison of a line appearing in poems written by Claudia Rankine and Robert Lowell to a far-reaching and sophisticated argument about lyric subjectivity and whiteness,'鈥� cited the MLA awards committee in announcing the honor. 鈥淏ased primarily on insightful close readings of texts by Rankine and Lowell, [the essay] skillfully works those astute interpretations in a broader context involving the racial dynamics of various genres of twentieth-century poetry, particularly lyric verse (confessional and experimental). Javadizadeh鈥檚 exceptionally thoughtful essay has important implications beyond the two authors at its center, making a substantial contribution to the field of new lyric studies.鈥�

Dr. Javadizadeh鈥� s research and teaching focus on poetry and poetics. He is the author of the forthcoming Institutionalized Lyric: American Poetry at Midcentury from Oxford University Press.  His essays have appeared in the journals Modernism/modernity, Arizona Quarterly, and The Yale Review and in several edited anthologies. He is coeditor of Poetry Networks, a forthcoming special issue of College Literature. He earned his doctorate from Yale University and has also taught at Pomona College and Connecticut College. He is now in the early stages of a new book project, one that weaves together literary criticism, memoir, translation, and the tangled histories of the United States, where he grew up, and Iran, where he was born.

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