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The Division of Literatures, Cultures,  and Languages cordially invites you to a wine and hors d’oeuvres reception honoring the recent achievements and awards of Professors Russell Berman, René Girard, Joseph Frank, and Gabriella Safran.

When:  Monday April 13th, 2009 @ 4pm

Where: Oregon Courtyard

Russell A. Berman

Walter A. Haas Professor in the Humanities, Professor of German Studies

Chair, Department of Comparative Literature

Russell  Berman has been elected Second Vice President of the MLA. He will serve in that office until 2009 and will become First Vice President in 2010. His term as President will begin after the close of the January 2011 convention and continue through the close of the January 2012 convention.

Joseph Frank

Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Emeritus

Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures

Joseph Frank was the recipient of the 2008 Distinguished Contributions in Slavic Studies Award. The award represents the highest honor bestowed on senior scholars by the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies.

René Girard

Andrew B. Hammond Professor of French Language, Literature, and Civilization and Professor of Comparative Literature, Emeritus

Department of French & Italian

René Girard received the MLA’s fifth Award for Lifetime Scholarly Achievement in 2008. The Executive Council selected Girard at the recommendation of the Committee on Honors and Awards. A lifetime member of the MLA, Girard received the MLA’s William Riley Parker Prize in 1965.

Gabriella Safran

Associate Professor

Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures

Gabriella Safran and Stephen Zipperstein, co-editors of The Worlds of S. An-sky: A Russian-Jewish Intellectual at the Turn of the Century (èצӰÏñ University Press, 2006), were awarded the MLA’s Fenia and Yaakov Leviant Memorial Prize in Yiddish Studies.