Adhaar Noor Desai Receives Modern Language Association Prize

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