Megan Moore was recently awarded an honorable mention for the Modern Language Association of America’s Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize. Moore was recognized for her most recent publication, The Erotics of Grief: Emotions and the Construction of Privilege in the Medieval Mediterranean, published in 2021 by Cornell University Press.

Moore is chair of the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures in the College of Arts & Science. Her work focuses on gender, identity, and cross-cultural exchange in the medieval Mediterranean.

"I'm very honored for this recognition of my work, which explores how grief creates community and power structures in ways that bridge the medieval and the modern," says Moore. "'Whose grief matters?' is a question for the ages — from Homer to today — and in The Erotics of Grief, I claim that medieval systems of privilege may offer insight into the relation between emotions and community today."

The Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for French and Francophone Studies is awarded annually for an outstanding scholarly work in its field — a literary or linguistic study, a critical edition of an important work, or a critical biography by a member of the association.