The Modern Language Association honored two Saint Louis University professors. The James Russell Lowell Prize, the organization’s top honor annually, went to Jonathan Sawday for his text “Blanks, Print, Space, and Void in English Renaissance Literature: An Archaeology of Absence,” as the most outstanding book written and published in 2023 by a member of the association. Sawday holds SLU’s Walter J. Ong, S.J. Chair in Humanities in the English Department.
SLU’s Professor of Hispanic Studies Amy E. Wright’s book “Serial Mexico: Storytelling across Media, from Nationhood to Now,” received Honorable Mention for the Modern Library Association’s Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize for a work published in English and Spanish in the field of Latin American and Spanish literatures and cultures.
The National Academy of Inventors named Gregory Lanza of Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, as an academy fellow. Lanza holds 40 patents and is the school’s James R. Hornsby Family Professor in Biomedical Sciences in the John T. Milliken Department of Medicine.
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The St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum appointed four new board members for 2025: Nancy Keyser, Dave Hageman, Craig Rosenthal, and Cheryle Atkin. The board elected Greg Yawitz as chair, succeeding Carol Staenberg, who will remain on the board as past chair.
