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Joint reception at the MLA, Washington DC

We are pleased to announce and invite you to a Joint reception at the MLA, Washington DC, held by Fordham University Press, and the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies at the University of Florida, Gainesville, to honor J. Hillis Miller, the recipient of the MLA Lifetime Scholarly Achievement Award (MLA, 2005), and to celebrate the publication of "Literature as Conduct" by J. Hillis Miller, and "Provocations to Reading. J. Hillis Miller and the Democracy to Come," edited by Barbara Cohen and Dragan Kujundzic (both recent publications by Fordham University Press, 2005). The authors will be present for the book signing.

Barbara Cohen is Director of HumaniTech, University of California at Irvine. Dragan Kujundzic is Professor and Chair, Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies, University of Florida at Gainesville.

J. Hillis Miller is the recipient of the MLA Lifetime Scholarly Achievement Award, to be presented at the MLA Convention; among many honorary titles, he is also Doctor Honoris Causa at the University of Florida, Gainesville.

Place

Fordham University Press booth at the Marriott, MLA Book Exhibit Hall, Booth 201.

Time

4-6PM, Wednesday, December 28th, 2005.

The event is free and open to all MLA participants. Refreshments will be served.

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