Lynch Receives MLA First Book Award

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Deidre Shauna Lynch, associate professor of English at UB, has received the sixth annual Modern Language Association of America (MLA) Prize for a First Book for her book "The Economy of Character: Novels, Market Culture and the Business of Inner Meaning," published in 1998 by the University of Chicago Press.

The first book prize is awarded annually for an outstanding book -- a literary or linguistic study, a critical edition of an important work or a critical biography -- that is the first book-length publication for a member of the association.

A UB faculty member since 1990, Lynch has won the Whiting and Mellon fellowships in the humanities, and is a honorary member of the Golden Key National Honor Society for excellence in undergraduate teaching.

In addition to her prize-winning book, she has published numerous scholarly articles, reviews and contributions to edited collections. She currently is editing a collection entitled "Janeites: Austen's Disciples and Devotees," to be published in 2000 by Princeton University Press.

Lynch holds a bachelor's degree from the University of British Columbia and a doctorate from Stanford University, where she was a teaching fellow.

She resides in Buffalo.