{"351511":{"#nid":"351511","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Santesso Awarded James Russell Lowell Prize","body":[{"value":"\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/faculty-and-staff\/faculty\/bio\/santesso\u0022\u003EAaron Santesso\u003C\/a\u003E, associate professor in the \u003Cstrong\u003ESchool of Literature, Media, and Communication\u003C\/strong\u003E, has been selected to receive the Modern Language Association of America\u0027s (MLA) James Russell Lowell Prize for his coauthored book \u003Cem\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/yalepress.yale.edu\/book.asp?isbn=9780300155419\u0022\u003EThe Watchman in Pieces\u0026nbsp;Surveillance, Literature, and Liberal Personhood\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003ESantesso shares the award with co-author David Rosen of Trinity College.\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u0022The Watchman in Pieces is outstanding in both scope and execution\u2014a risk-taking historical overview of signal developments in the coevolution of the surveillant state and the self-monitoring liberal subject from the sixteenth century into the present. To the manifest timeliness of their topic David Rosen and Aaron Santesso bring the seasoning perspective of history and the subtilizing perspective of theory, including a firm resistance to the sovereignty of Foucauldian paradigms. Closely watched texts come alive in new ways; even more impressive are the juxtapositions that carry the argument forward. The authors sustain a deft expository verve that conveys an ambitious template for reading and rereading in a wide variety of genres.\u0022 - MLA Committee on Honors and Awards\u003C\/blockquote\u003EMLA is the world\u0027s largest academic association centering on the study of languages and literatures. The James Russell Lowell Prize is among the most prestigious awards in the Humanities in North America, given to an \u0022an outstanding literary or linguistic study.\u0022 Since 1969, when Harvard\u0027s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/scholar.harvard.edu\/vendler\/home\u0022\u003EHelen Vendler\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;was chosen as the first recipient, the prize has been awarded to studies written by some of the most celebrated names in the humanities: Sianne Ngai, Paula R. Backscheider,\u0026nbsp;W.J.T. Mitchell,\u0026nbsp;Jerome McGann, Fredric Jameson, Stephen Greenblatt, V.A. Kolve, Jonathan Culler, and Theodore Ziolkowski. The prize\u0026nbsp;consists of a cash award and a certificate and will be presented to the winning co-authors at the MLA\u0027s annual convention in January 2015.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022One thing we learned, and which we tried to convey in the book, is that people have been alternately enthusiastic and worried about new surveillance technologies for centuries, even as people who actually work in the surveillance industry continue to rely on what we might call \u0022humanistic\u0022 skills: analytical ability, interpretation, putting things into perspective, etc.\u0022 - Santesso on writing\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EThe Watchman in Pieces\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESantesso\u0027s winning of the James Russell Lowell prize underscores the outstanding level of scholarship and research in the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/faculty-and-staff\/faculty\/bio\/santesso\u0022\u003EAaron Santesso\u003C\/a\u003E has been selected to receive the Modern Language Association of America\u0027s (MLA) James Russell Lowell Prize for his coauthored book \u003Cem\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/yalepress.yale.edu\/book.asp?isbn=9780300155419\u0022\u003EThe Watchman in Pieces: Surveillance, Literature, and Liberal Personhood\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Aaron Santesso has been selected to receive the Modern Language Association of America\u0027s (MLA) James Russell Lowell Prize for his coauthored book \u0022The Watchman in Pieces: Surveillance, Literature, and Liberal Personhood.\u0022"}],"uid":"27889","created_gmt":"2014-12-03 13:37:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:17:37","author":"Beth Godfrey","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-12-03T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2014-12-03T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"351481":{"id":"351481","type":"image","title":"Aaron Santesso","body":null,"created":"1449245714","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 16:15:14","changed":"1475895078","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:51:18","alt":"Aaron Santesso","file":{"fid":"201118","name":"img_60.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/img_60_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/img_60_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":27432,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/img_60_0.jpg?itok=lbFwItCi"}}},"media_ids":["351481"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"101","name":"Award"},{"id":"955","name":"ivan allen college"},{"id":"950","name":"liberal arts"},{"id":"39781","name":"LMC"},{"id":"111421","name":"MLA"},{"id":"167179","name":"Santesso"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAaron Santesso\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:aaron.santesso@lmc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eaaron.santesso@lmc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}