Professor Andrew Kahn wins joint second prize in prestigious humanities award

Andrew Kahn FBA, Professor of Russian Literature and Fellow at St Edmund Hall, has been awarded joint second prize for the Modern Language Association (MLA)’s Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Slavic languages and Literatures.

Andrew has been recognised alongside Mark Lipovetsky, of Columbia University; Irina Reyfman, of Columbia University; and Stephanie Sandler, of Harvard University, for their work: A History of Russian Literature, published by Oxford University Press. The prize is awarded biennially for an outstanding scholarly work on the linguistics or literatures of the Slavic languages, including Belarussian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Polish, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, and Ukrainian.

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