Princeton University’s Christy Wampole Honored by the Modern Language Association
Posted on Dec 21, 2017 | Comments 0
Christy Wampole, associate professor in the department of French and Italian at Princeton University in New Jersey, received the Modern Language Association Prize for a First Book. The prize, established in 1993, is awarded annually for the first book-length publication of an association member that is a literary or linguistic study, a critical edition of an important work, or a critical biography.
Dr. Wampole was honored for her book Rootedness: The Ramifications of Metaphor (University of Chicago Press, 2016). Earlier, she published a collection of essays entitled The Other Serious: Essays for the New American Generation (Harper, 2015). She is completing work on a new book, Degenerative Realism: Novel as Nation in 21st-Century France.
Dr. Wampole joined the faculty at Princeton University in 2011. She holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. from Stanford University.
