Lindemann Wins Lynch Service Award

Professor Marilee Lindemann has won the 2007 Michael Lynch Service Award from the Gay, Lesbian, Queer Caucus of the Modern Language Association.

Professor Lindemann will be honored at the MLA Convention in Chicago this month. The award recognizes her extensive service in building and directing the University of Maryland's LGBT Studies program, as well as her innovative scholarship and teaching in queer studies. The Michael Lynch Service Award is meant, in Eve Kosofky Sedgwick's words, "to publicize and celebrate – as widely as possible – the range, the forms, the energy, and the history of queer activism in academics." It is widely known that Professor Lindemann has been instrumental in building one of the country's leading LGBT program, and one that other institutions are taking as a model.  It is gratifying indeed to see her singled out for this important professional award. Congratulations, Professor Lindemann!