Description: 1. Simon Gikandi will announce the newly elected honorary fellows.

2. Simon Gikandi will present the Phyllis Franklin Award to the founders of Cave Canem, Toi Derricotte, U of Pittsburgh, and Cornelius Eady, Stony Brook U, State U of New York.

3. Remarks by Toi Derricotte and Cornelius Eady

4. Judith Butler, U of California, Berkeley, MLA First Vice President, will present the William Riley Parker Prize; James Russell Lowell Prize; MLA Prize for a First Book; Kenneth W. Mildenberger Prize; Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize; Morton N. Cohen Award; MLA Prize for a Scholarly Edition; Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies; Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for French and Francophone Studies; Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Slavic Languages and Literatures; Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Literary Work; Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Scholarly Study of Literature; Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Italian Studies; Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Publication Award for a Manuscript in Italian Literary Studies; Lois Roth Award; William Sanders Scarborough Prize; MLA Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies; and Matei Calinescu Prize.

5. Paula M. Krebs will present the MLA International Bibliography Fellowship Awards.

6. Paula M. Krebs will present the seal of approval from the Committee on Scholarly Editions.

7. Megan Ferry, Union C, and Gillian Lord, U of Florida, ADFL Copresidents, will present the ADFL Award for Distinguished Service to the Profession to Jayne Abrate, American Assn. of Teachers of French.

8. Remarks by Jayne Abrate

9. Todd Wayne Butler, Washington State U, Pullman, ADE President, will present the ADE Francis Andrew March Award to David Laurence, New York, NY.

10. Remarks by David Laurence

Speakers

Jayne Abrate, American Assn. of Teachers of French

Judith Butler, U of California

Toi Derricotte, U of Pittsburgh

Cornelius Eady, Stony Brook U, State U of New York

Megan M. Ferry, Union C

Paula M. Krebs, MLA

David Laurence, New York, NY

Gillian Lord, U of Florida

Presider

Simon Gikandi, Princeton U, MLA President