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BOOK BY SLU PROF WINS PRIZE

CANTON -- St. Lawrence University Associate Professor 
of Modern Languages Joan E. Dargan's book, Simone Weil: 
Thinking Poetically, has been awarded the Prix Anne de 
Jaeger by the Fondation Anne de Jaeger in France. The 
prize is awarded periodically to recognize distinguished 
contributions to scholarship on the French philosopher, 
mystic and activist Simone Weil (1909-1943).
	Dargan's book was published in 1999 by the State 
University of New York Press. She has written a number 
of scholarly pieces on Weil, and translated the 1995 
book The Religious Metaphysics of Simone Weil.
	A St. Lawrence faculty member since 1983, Dargan is 
a graduate of Anna Maria College, with a master's degree 
and Ph.D. from Princeton University. She has been a director 
of the University's program of study in France.

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