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Leonid Livak has won the prestigious Modern Language Association (MLA)’s .

Awarded biennially, the prize celebrates outstanding scholarly work on the linguistics or literatures of Slavic languages. Livak, a professor in , was recognized for .

Calling it a “bold undertaking” and a “model of exemplary scholarship.” the MLA committee commended the work for confronting “inherited assumptions about the field, including its canons and methodologies” for critical analysis.

“The MLA prize is not just a Slavic prize, it’s a general prize in literary studies,” Livak said. “So I'm hoping that this will open the much overdue discussion about how we speak about Russian modernism, the questions we ask about Russian modernism and how it fits within transnational modernist studies.”