On December 14, the Modern Language Association of America announced it is awarding its twenty-eighth annual Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for French and Francophone Studies to Katie Chenoweth, associate professor of French, for her book The Prosthetic Tongue: Printing Technology and the Rise of the French Language, published by the University of Pennsylvania Press. The prize is awarded annually for an outstanding scholarly work in its field—a literary or linguistic study, a critical edition of an important work, or a critical biography—written by a member of the association.
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