UC Riverside Professor Honored by the Modern Language Association – Alicia Arrizón

The Modern Language Association of America announced Monday, Dec. 3 that UC Riverside Professor Alicia Arrizón will share the fifth annual MLA Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies for her book, “Queering Mestizaje: Transculturation and Performance,” published by the University of Michigan Press. The prize is awarded for an outstanding scholarly study of Latina or Latino or Chicana or Chicano literature or culture.

She shares the prize with Ramón Saldívar, professor at Stanford University, and author of “The Borderlands of Culture: Américo Paredes and the Transnational Imaginary,” published by Duke University Press. Arrizón and Saldívar will each receive a prize of $500.

The MLA Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies is one of eighteen awards that will be presented on Dec. 28 during the association’s annual convention, held this year in Chicago. The members of the selection committee were Mary Pat Brady of Cornell University; Daniel Torres of Ohio University; and Silvio Torres-Saillant of Syracuse University. “*

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