我的导师安德鲁·琼斯刚刚获得美国现代语言学会第43届 James Russell Lowell Prize 荣誉提名

这回是两人获奖，一人获荣誉提名。获奖者之一是新历史主义大师格林布拉特（Stephen Greenblatt），目前在哈佛大学任教。他此前任教于加州大学伯克利分校时，于1988年获得过该奖，于1973年获得过荣誉提名。 在该奖至今43年的历史中，加州大学伯克利分校共获得了7人次该奖及荣誉提名，包括这次我的导师 Andrew F. Jones。（耶鲁大学6人次，宾夕法尼亚大学6人次，普林斯顿大学6人次，斯坦福大学4人次，佛吉尼亚大学4人次，哈佛大学3人次，哥伦比亚大学2人次，杜克大学2人次，康奈尔大学2人次，芝加哥大学2人次，加州大学圣芭芭拉分校2人次，加州大学洛杉矶分校1人次，加州大学尔湾分校1人次，加州大学河滨分校1人，加州大学圣地亚哥分校1人次……余者就不统计了……） 哇，加州大学伯克利分校雄踞榜首，其胜出第二名，是这回我导师之功…… 每年度的获奖和获得荣誉提名者，从一人到三人不等。在43年的名单中，有杰姆逊、乔纳森·卡勒、W. J. T. Mitchell、Susan Stewart（民俗学）、Geoffrey H. Hartman、Mary Louise Pratt…… 这次的颁奖仪式，将在2013年1月5日美国现代语言学会（MLA）的年度大会上，在波士顿举行。 Andrew F. Jones 获奖，不仅仅是他个人和加州大学伯克利分校的荣誉。 这里面还有一个意义：在美国人文研究的浩瀚星河中，还鲜有 Asian Studies （亚洲研究）能入围此奖，先例只有一个，就是1995年周蕾获奖：Rey Chow, University of California, Irvine, for Primitive Passions: Visuality, Sexuality, Ethnography, and Contemporary Chinese Cinema (Columbia Univ. Press, 1995)。 这应该是亚洲研究的总体荣誉吧。亚洲研究也是百年老店，光是汉学研究也星汉璀璨了。多少伟大的汉学家呀。。。我导师胜出了。 ******************************************* http://e2.ma/message/un6cd/6oj5gh SIMON GIKANDI AND STEPHEN GREENBLATT TO RECEIVE MLA’S JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL PRIZE; ANDREW F. JONES TO RECEIVE HONORABLE MENTION New York, NY – 4 December 2012 – The Modern Language Association of America today announced it is awarding its forty-third annual James Russell Lowell Prize to Simon Gikandi, of Princeton University, for his book Slavery and the Culture of Taste, published by Princeton University Press, and to Stephen Greenblatt, of Harvard University, for his book The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, published by W. W. Norton. Andrew F. Jones, of the University of California, Berkeley, has received honorable mention for his book Developmental Fairy Tales: Evolutionary Thinking and Modern Chinese Culture, published by Harvard University Press. The prize is awarded annually for an outstanding book—a literary or linguistic study, a critical edition of an important work, or a critical biography—written by a member of the association. The James Russell Lowell Prize is one of fifteen awards that will be presented on 5 January 2013, during the association’s annual convention, to be held in Boston. The selection committee members were Andrew Cole (Princeton Univ.); Andrew Elfenbein (Univ. of Minnesota); Alejandro Herrero-Olaizola (Univ. of Michigan); Daniel Kim (Brown Univ.); and Carlos Vega (Wellesley Coll.), chair. ... The committee’s citation for Jones’s book reads: Andrew F. Jones’s Developmental Fairy Tales: Evolutionary Thinking and Modern Chinese Culture is a fascinating study of how a developmental mode of thinking derived from Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer was reworked by Lu Xun and other important writers and public intellectuals who played a vital role in shaping a particularly Chinese form of modernity. Jones offers elegantly crafted readings of a variety of cultural objects—journalistic accounts, fiction, criticism, animal tales, and even toys—that reveal them as animated by an impulse to domesticate an evolutionary mode of narrative, envisioning a modern nation that could compete with Western imperial powers. He gracefully evokes a complex cosmopolitan sphere of culture that is fully enmeshed in the global struggle between China and the West without being simply reducible to it. Andrew F. Jones is a professor and Louis B. Agassiz Chair in Chinese at the University of California, Berkeley. He received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1997. Jones teaches modern Chinese literature and media culture. His research interests include music, cinema, and media technology; modern and contemporary fiction; children’s literature; and the cultural history of the global 1960s. He is the author of Like a Knife: Ideology and Genre in Contemporary Chinese Popular Music and Yellow Music: Media Culture and Colonial Modernity in the Chinese Jazz Age; coeditor of The Afro-Asian Century, a special issue of Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique; and translator of literary fiction by Yu Hua as well as Eileen Chang’s Written on Water. He is coeditor of The Discovery of the Child: The Problem of the Child in Modern Chinese Literature and Culture. The Modern Language Association of America and its 30,000 members in 100 countries work to strengthen the study and teaching of languages and literature. Founded in 1883, the MLA provides opportunities for its members to share their scholarly findings and teaching experiences with colleagues and to discuss trends in the academy. The MLA sustains one of the finest publication programs in the humanities, producing a variety of publications for language and literature professionals and for the general public. The association publishes the MLA International Bibliography, the only comprehensive bibliography in language and literature, available online. The MLA Annual Convention features meetings on a wide variety of subjects; this year’s convention in Boston is expected to draw 8,000 attendees. More information on MLA programs is available at http://www.mla.org. First presented in 1969, the James Russell Lowell Prize is awarded under the auspices of the MLA’s Committee on Honors and Awards. Recent winners of the prize have been Jerome McGann, María Antonia Garcés, Giancarlo Maiorino, Diana Fuss, Paula R. Backscheider, W. J. T. Mitchell, Martin Puchner, Laura Marcus, Isobel Armstrong, Laura Dassow Walls, and Phillip H. Round. In recent years honorable mention has been awarded to Eric L. Santner, Susan Stewart, Wendy L. Wall, Brent Hayes Edwards, Robert Pogue Harrison, Alan Liu, Wai Chee Dimock, Cynthia Wall, and Joseph Litvak. Other awards sponsored by the committee are the William Riley Parker Prize; the MLA Prize for a First Book; the Howard R. Marraro Prize; the Kenneth W. Mildenberger Prize; the Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize; the MLA Prize for Independent Scholars; the Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize; the Morton N. Cohen Award; the MLA Prizes for a Scholarly Edition and for a Distinguished Bibliography; the Lois Roth Award; the William Sanders Scarborough Prize; the Fenia and Yaakov Leviant Memorial Prize in Yiddish Studies; the MLA Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies; the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prizes for Comparative Literary Studies, for French and Francophone Studies, for Italian Studies, for Studies in Germanic Languages and Literatures, for Studies in Slavic Languages and Literatures, for a Translation of a Literary Work, and for a Translation of a Scholarly Study of Literature; and the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Publication Award for a Manuscript in Italian Literary Studies. James Russell Lowell (1819–91) was a scholar and poet. His first important literary activity came as editor of and frequent contributor to the National Anti-slavery Standard. In 1848 Lowell published several volumes of poetry, criticism, humor, and political satire, including The Vision of Sir Launfal and the first Biglow Papers, which firmly established him in the galaxy of American writers of his day. In 1855 he succeeded Henry Wadsworth Longfellow as Smith Professor of French and Spanish at Harvard. Lowell was the first editor of the Atlantic Monthly (1857–61) and was later minister to Spain and Britain. James Russell Lowell served as second president of the MLA from 1887 until his death in 1891. ********************************************************* 历年获奖及获得荣誉提名名单 http://www.mla.org/pastwinners_lowell 2011 Simon Gikandi, Princeton University, for Slavery and the Culture of Taste (Princeton Univ. Press, 2011) Stephen Greenblatt, Harvard University, for The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (W. W. Norton, 2011) Honorable mention: Andrew F. Jones, University of California, Berkeley, for Developmental Fairy Tales: Evolutionary Thinking and Modern Chinese Culture (Harvard Univ. Press, 2011) 2010 Phillip H. Round, University of Iowa, for Removable Type: Histories of the Book in Indian Country, 1663–1880 (Univ. of North Carolina Press, 2010) 2009 Laura Dassow Walls, University of South Carolina, for The Passage to Cosmos: Alexander von Humboldt and the Shaping of America (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2009) Honorable mention: Joseph Litvak, Tufts University, for The Un-Americans: Jews, the Blacklist, and Stoolpigeon Culture (Duke Univ. Press, 2009) 2008 Isobel Armstrong, University of London, for Victorian Glassworlds: Glass Culture and the Imagination 1830–1880 (Oxford Univ. Press, 2008) 2007 Laura Marcus, University of Edinburgh, for The Tenth Muse: Writing about Cinema in the Modernist Period (Oxford Univ. Press, 2007) 2006 Martin Puchner, Columbia University, for Poetry of the Revolution: Marx, Manifestos, and the Avant-Gardes (Princeton Univ. Press, 2006) Honorable mention: Wai Chee Dimock, Yale University, for Through Other Continents: American Literature across Deep Time (Princeton Univ. Press, 2006) Honorable mention: Cynthia Wall, University of Virginia, for The Prose of Things: Transformations of Description in the Eighteenth Century (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2006) 2005 Paula R. Backscheider, Auburn University, for Eighteenth-Century Women Poets and Their Poetry: Inventing Agency, Inventing Genre (Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2005) W. J. T. Mitchell, University of Chicago, for What Do Pictures Want?: The Lives and Loves of Images (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2005) 2004 Diana Fuss, Princeton University, for The Sense of an Interior: Four Writers and the Rooms That Shaped Them (Routledge, 2004) Honorable mention: Alan Liu, University of California, Santa Barbara, for The Laws of Cool: Knowledge Work and the Culture of Information (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2004) 2003 Giancarlo Maiorino, Indiana University, Bloomington, for At the Margins of the Renaissance: Lazarillo de Tormes and the Picaresque Art of Survival (Penn State Univ. Press, 2003) Honorable mention: Brent Hayes Edwards, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, for The Practice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation, and the Rise of Black Internationalism (Harvard Univ. Press, 2003) Honorable mention: Robert Pogue Harrison, Stanford University, for The Dominion of the Dead (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2003) 2002 María Antonia Garcés, Cornell University, for Cervantes in Algiers: A Captive’s Tale (Vanderbilt Univ. Press, 2002) Honorable mention: Susan Stewart, University of Pennsylvania, for Poetry and the Fate of the Senses (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2002) Honorable mention: Wendy L. Wall, Northwestern University, for Staging Domesticity: Household Work and English Identity in Early Modern Drama (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2002) 2001 Jerome McGann, University of Virginia, for Radiant Textuality: Literature after the World Wide Web (Palgrave, 2001) Honorable mention: Eric L. Santner, University of Chicago, for On the Psychotheology of Everyday Life: Reflections on Freud and Rosenzweig (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2001) 2000 Ann Rosalind Jones, Smith College, and Peter Stallybrass, University of Pennsylvania, for Renaissance Clothing and the Materials of Memory (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2000) 1999 Mary Baine Campbell, Brandeis University, for Wonder and Science: Imagining Worlds in Early Modern Europe (Cornell Univ. Press, 1999) 1998 Gauri Viswanathan, Columbia University, for Outside the Fold: Conversion, Modernity, and Belief (Princeton Univ. Press, 1998) Honorable mention: Phyllis Blum Cole, Penn State University, Delaware County, for Mary Moody Emerson and the Origins of Transcendentalism: A Family History (Oxford Univ. Press, 1998) 1997 David Wallace, University of Pennsylvania, for Chaucerian Polity: Absolutist Lineages and Associational Forms in England and Italy (Stanford Univ. Press, 1997) Honorable mention: Joan DeJean, University of Pennsylvania, for Ancients against Moderns: Culture Wars and the Making of a Fin de Siècle (Univ. of Chicago Press, 1997) Honorable mention: Geoffrey H. Hartman, Yale University and George Washington University, for The Fateful Question of Culture (Columbia Univ. Press, 1997) 1996 Joseph Roach, Yale University, for Cities of the Dead: Circum-Atlantic Performance (Columbia Univ. Press, 1996) Honorable mention: Wai Chee Dimock, Yale University, for Residues of Justice: Literature, Law, Philosophy (Univ. of California Press, 1996) 1995 Rey Chow, University of California, Irvine, for Primitive Passions: Visuality, Sexuality, Ethnography, and Contemporary Chinese Cinema (Columbia Univ. Press, 1995) Honorable mention: John Felstiner, Stanford University, for Paul Celan (Yale Univ. Press, 1995) Honorable mention: Claudia L. Johnson, Princeton University, for Equivocal Beings: Politics, Gender, and Sentimentality in the 1790s--Wollstonecraft, Radcliffe, Burney, Austen (Univ. of Chicago Press, 1995) 1994 Catherine Gallagher, University of California, Berkeley, for Nobody's Story: Women Writers in the Marketplace (Univ. of California Press, 1994) 1993 Eric J. Sundquist, University of California, Los Angeles, for To Wake the Nations: Race in the Making of American Literature (Harvard Univ. Press, 1993) 1992 Richard Helgerson, University of California, Santa Barbara, for Forms of Nationhood: The Elizabethan Writing of England (Univ. of Chicago Press, 1992) Honorable mention: Kwame Anthony Appiah, Harvard University, for In My Father's House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture (Oxford Univ. Press, 1992) Honorable mention: Mary Louise Pratt, Stanford University, for Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation (Routledge, 1992) 1991 Sacvan Bercovitch, Harvard University, for The Office of The Scarlet Letter (Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1991) 1990 Fredric Jameson, Duke University, for Postmodernism; or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (Duke Univ. Press, 1990) Honorable mention: Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Duke University, for Epistemology of the Closet (Univ. of California Press, 1990) 1989 Denis Hollier, Yale University, with R. Howard Bloch, Peter Brooks, Joan DeJean, Barbara Johnson, Philip Lewis, Nancy Miller, François Rigolot, and Nancy J. Vickers, editors, for A New History of French Literature (Harvard Univ. Press, 1989) Honorable mention: Charles Bernheimer, University of Pennsylvania, for Figures of Ill Repute: Representing Prostitution in Nineteenth-Century France (Harvard Univ. Press, 1989) Honorable mention: Ronald Paulson, Johns Hopkins University, for Breaking and Remaking: Aesthetic Practice in England, 1700-1820 (Rutgers Univ. Press, 1989) 1988 Stephen Greenblatt, University of California, Berkeley, for Shakespearean Negotiations: The Circulation of Social Energy in Renaissance England (Univ. of California Press, 1988) 1987 Michael McKeon, Rutgers University, for The Origins of the English Novel, 1600-1740 (Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1987) 1986 Joseph Frank, Institute for Advanced Studies and Stanford University, for Dostoevsky: The Stir of Liberation, 1860-1865 (Princeton Univ. Press, 1986) 1985 Joel Fineman, University of California, Berkeley, for Shakespeare's Perjured Eye: The Invention of Poetic Subjectivity in the Sonnets (Univ. of California Press, 1985) Honorable mention: Jane Gallop, Rice University, for Reading Lacan (Cornell Univ. Press, 1985) 1984 V. A. Kolve, University of Virginia, for Chaucer and the Imagery of Narrative: The First Five Canterbury Tales (Stanford Univ. Press, 1984) 1983 Stephen G. Nichols, Jr., University of Pennsylvania, for Romanesque Signs: Early Medieval Narrative and Iconography (Yale Univ. Press, 1983) 1982 Thomas M. Greene, Yale University, for The Light in Troy: Imitation and Discovery in Renaissance Poetry (Yale Univ. Press, 1982) Honorable mention: Raymond E. Fitch, Ohio University, for The Poison Sky: Myth and Apocalypse in Ruskin (Ohio Univ. Press, 1982) 1981 Gay Wilson Allen, New York University, for Waldo Emerson: A Biography (Viking, 1981) 1980 Benjamin Bennett, University of Virginia, for Modern Drama and German Classicism (Cornell Univ. Press, 1980) 1979 Barbara Kiefer Lewalski, Brown University, for Protestant Poetics and the Seventeenth-Century Religious Lyric (Princeton Univ. Press, 1979) 1978 Andrew Welsh, Rutgers University, for Roots of Lyric: Primitive Poetry and Modern Poetics (Princeton Univ. Press, 1978) Honorable mention: Edwin M. Eigner, University of California, Riverside, for The Metaphysical Novel in England and America (Univ. of California Press, 1978) 1977 Stephen Booth, University of California, Berkeley, for Shakespeare's Sonnets (Yale Univ. Press, 1977) 1976 Joseph Frank, Princeton University, for Dostoevsky: The Seeds of Revolt, 1821-1849 (Princeton Univ. Press, 1976) 1975 Jonathan Culler, Oxford University, for Structuralist Poetics (Cornell Univ. Press, 1975) 1974 Josephine Miles, University of California, Berkeley, for Poetry and Change (Univ. of California Press, 1974) 1973 Leslie A. Marchand, Rutgers University, for Byron's Letters and Journals (Harvard Univ. Press, 1973) Honorable mention: Stephen J. Greenblatt, University of California, Berkeley, for Sir Walter Raleigh: The Renaissance Man and His Roles (Yale Univ. Press, 1973) 1972 Theodore J. Ziolkowski, Princeton University, for Fictional Transfigurations of Jesus (Princeton Univ. Press, 1972) Honorable mention: Jonathan Saville, University of California, San Diego, for The Medieval Erotic Alba: Structure as Meaning (Columbia Univ. Press, 1972) 1971 Meyer H. Abrams, Cornell University, for Natural Supernaturalism: Tradition and Revolution in Romantic Literature (Norton, 1971) 1970 Bruce A. Rosenberg, Pennsylvania State University, for The Art of the American Folk Preacher (Oxford Univ. Press, 1970) Honorable mention: Don Cameron Allen, Johns Hopkins University, for Mysteriously Meant: The Rediscovery of Pagan Symbolism and Allegorical Interpretation in the Renaissance (Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1970) Honorable mention: Lawrence E. Harvey, Dartmouth College, for Samuel Beckett, Poet and Critic (Princeton Univ. Press, 1970) 1969 Helen Vendler, Boston University, for On Extended Wings: Wallace Stevens' Longer Poems (Harvard Univ. Press, 1969) Honorable mention: Theodore J. Ziolkowski, Princeton University, for Dimensions of the Modern Novel (Princeton Univ. Press, 1969)