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Jordan Carroll Wins MLA Prize for Independent Scholars
Visiting Assistant Professor of English at the University of Puget Sound and 2018 First Book Institute alum Jordan Carroll has been awarded the Modern Language Association Prize for Independent Scholars for his book, Reading the Obscene: Transgressive Editors and the Class Politics of US Literature. This award recognizes the achievements and contributions of independent scholars working in English and other language disciplines. The prize selection committee praised the book's "control and precision" as Carroll "mobilizes multiple genres in service of his fascinating claims" about the role of editors in combatting censorship in twentieth-century American literature.
Congratulations, Jordan, on this achievement and acknowledgment of your exciting work!
Visiting Assistant Professor of English at the University of Puget Sound and 2018 First Book Institute alum Jordan Carroll has been awarded the Modern Language Association Prize for Independent Scholars for his book, Reading the Obscene: Transgressive Editors and the Class Politics of US Literature. This award recognizes the achievements and contributions of independent scholars working in English and other language disciplines. The prize selection committee praised the book's "control and precision" as Carroll "mobilizes multiple genres in service of his fascinating claims" about the role of editors in combatting censorship in twentieth-century American literature.
Congratulations, Jordan, on this achievement and acknowledgment of your exciting work!