RECENT FACULTY BOOKS
Eleanor Johnson, "Practicing Literary Theory in the Middle Ages"
Recent Faculty Awards
Andrew Delbanco awarded National Humanities Medal
Recent Faculty Awards
Joseph Slaughter receives Lenfest Award
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New Novel by Claude McKay Discovered by Columbia Researcher
RECENT FACULTY BOOKS
T. Austin Graham, "The Great American Songbooks"
Recent Faculty Awards
Gayatri Spivak receives Padma Bhushan Award
Recent Faculty Awards
Nicholas Dames receives Mark Van Doren Award
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Sarah Cole, "At The Violet Hour"
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Susan Crane, "Animal Encounters"
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Sharon Marcus to co-edit newly launched 'Public Books'
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Queer Studies Award & Women's and Gender Studies Award
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Marianne Hirsch, "The Generation of Postmemory: Writing and Visual Culture After the Holocaust"

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Columbia's Department of English and Comparative Literature has played a significant role in the history of literary study in the United States and abroad since its inception.  With a large faculty of renowned scholars and dedicated teachers, our department offers a wide range of courses, recognizing traditional values in the discipline yet reflecting its changing shape. For details about our graduate and undergraduate programs, faculty, courses, and upcoming events, follow the appropriate link on the navigation bar above.

“This lucid and insightful study offers a new way of thinking about the necessary relation of form and ethics in late-medieval writing.

Nicholas Dames has won this year's Mark Van Doren Award for Teaching.

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, American authors pioneered a mode of musical writing that quite literally resounded beyond the printed page. Novels gained soundtracks, poetry compelled its audiences to sing, and the ostensibly silent act of reading became anything but.
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