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James Shapiro has won Baillie Gifford's anniversary prize with ‘remarkable’ Shakespeare biography 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare

Hannah Weaver will begin her year-long residency this fall with Columbia's Institute for Ideas and Imagination

Redmond will focus her fellowship on a monograph about Black life and listening

Spivak is the recipient of the inaugural Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award from the Columbia University Asian Faculty Association. 

Shapiro's 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare is among six books shortlisted for ‘Winner of Winners’ award

Bo McMillan is a researcher for the Redress Movement and PhD candidate in English & Comparative Literature studying narratives and neighborhood change in cities.

Spivak is the recipient of the inaugural Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award from the Columbia University Asian Faculty Association. 

In this wide‐ranging interview, Bruce Robbins reflects on themes that have long been at the center of his work, including cosmopolitanism, the political functions of literature and of literary criticism, anti-statism, and more. 

Professor Franco was a pathbreaking scholar in Latin American and feminist studies and a model of engaged intellectual work.

In "Flowers for Farah," Robin D. G. Kelley celebrates Griffin for bringing a praxis of radical love to an unequal academy through her scholarship, mentoring, and activism.