PAMLA is pleased to remind our members that the 2024 PAMLA Distinguished Service Award was presented to Andrea Gogröf! As Professor of Comparative Literature at Western Washington University and a former PAMLA President, Dr. Gogröf has long exemplified PAMLA’s mission of fostering vibrant, interdisciplinary engagement across languages, literatures, and the arts. Through her scholarship, service, and creative practice, Andrea Gogröf has contributed immensely to PAMLA’s intellectual community and spirit of collegial exchange. We are honored to recognize her extraordinary achievements and enduring service to the association. She served as PAMLA President in 2016, and has been a consistent champion of Comparative Literature and many other theory-based PAMLA sessions over the years.
Her scholarship bridges comparative literature and philosophy, with a focus on the evolving relationship between Romanticism and modernity. She is the author of Defining Modernism: Baudelaire and Nietzsche on Romanticism, Modernity, Decadence, and Richard Wagner (1999), and has continued to publish widely on Baudelaire, Nietzsche, the Austrian writer Peter Handke, and filmmaker Michael Haneke. Her recent work explores representations of hygiene and surveillance, and how these intersect with contemporary modes of perception and visual culture. Beyond academia, she is an accomplished visual artist, working in abstraction, landscape, and portraiture. Her paintings have been exhibited in galleries and local venues throughout the Pacific Northwest, as well as gracing the cover of PAMLA’s journal, Pacific Coast Philology (58 1-2).