The Program in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies
Melissa Sanchez, incoming APC/GSWS Director and Donald T. Regan Professor of English, received recognition from the Modern Language Association (MLA) for her book Queer Faith: Reading Promiscuity and Race in the Secular Love Tradition. The book received an honorable mention for the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies, given annually to an outstanding scholarly work that is written by a member of the association and that involves at least two literatures. Read about the award committee's description of her work in the latest Almanac issue.