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Miller receives University of Scranton’s John L. Earl III award

Linda Ledford-Miller, Ph.D., chair and professor of world languages and cultures at the University of Scranton, recently received the John L. Earl III award for service. Miller has served at the university since 1985 and has received three Fulbright fellowships during her career. In 2001, she was awarded a Fulbright to lecture at Eduardo Mondlane University, Mozambique, Africa. In 1990, she received a senior Fulbright Fellowship to lecture on comparative literature at San Carlos University in Guatemala City, Guatemala, and in 1979 she received her first Fulbright Fellowship for graduate study and research to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She served as the coordinator and organizer of several foreign languages immersion days and workshops, as acting director of the women’s studies concentration and as a mentor for the honor’s program. Miller has a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of California, a master’s degree in comparative literature from Pennsylvania State University and a master’s degree in Luso-Brazilian literature from the University of Texas, where she also received her Ph.D. in comparative literature. At the award presentation, from left, are the Rev. Scott R. Pilarz, university president; Pauline Earl, wife of the late John Earl; Karen Earl Kolon, M.D., daughter of the late John Earl; Linda Ledford-Miller, Ph.D.; and Harold Baillie, Ph.D., provost and vice president for academic affairs.