A book by Reid Barbour, a professor in UNC’s department of English and comparative literature, and his University of Oxford colleague David Norbrook has been honored by the Modern Language Association (MLA).
The book, Translation of Lucretius, volume 1 of The Works of Lucy Hutchinson (Oxford University Press) received an honorable mention for the MLA’s Prize for a Scholarly Edition.
The prize has been awarded each odd-numbered year since 1995.
The award citation says: “With their inclusive introduction and impeccable textual work, Reid Barbour and David Norbrook have produced a deeply impressive edition of Lucy Hutchinson’s sometimes labored, sometimes shimmering, always invigorated translation of Lucretius, a work that thanks to the editors’ great erudition, can serve as a vantage from which to survey many of the ambitions and uncertainties of British intellectual life in the 1650s.”
Barbour received his B.A. from UNC, and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Rochester. He is the author of Sir Thomas Browne: A Life, John Selden: Measures of the Holy Commonwealth in Seventeenth-Century England, Literature and Religious Culture in Seventeenth-Century England, and English Epicures and Stoics: Classical Legacies in Early Stuart Culture. He is the co-editor of the forthcoming Religio Medici, volume 1 of the Works of Sir Thomas Browne.
Founded in 1883, the MLA and its nearly 30,000 members in 100 countries work to strengthen the study and teaching of languages and literature.
