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"Increasing the Visibility of the Humanities," The Record interviews Dean of Humanities and Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Sarah Cole
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Colm Tóibín, Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know: The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce
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Prof. Davidson's Reading Jane Austen was named a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title for 2018.
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Faculty and Ph.D. Candidates Named The Society of Fellows and Heyman Center Fellows
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The Global South Atlantic, Edited by Joseph Slaughter and Kerry Bystrom
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Alan Stewart, The Oxford History of Life-Writing Vol. 2
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Celebration of the Life and Work of Steven Marcus
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Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, Saidiya Hartman
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A Celebration of the Life of Prof. Edward W. Tayler
Faculty Publication
Andrew Delbanco, The War Before the War
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Brent Edwards, Epistrophies: Jazz and the Literary Imagination
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Columbia Spectator: "Marcellus Blount Loved to Dance: Reflections on his 33 Years at Columbia"
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T. Austin Graham awarded 2018 NEH Fellowship
Faculty News
Prof. Matthew Hart Awarded Lenfest Distinguished Faculty Award
Faculty Publication
Eleanor Johnson, Staging Contemplation

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In this deft study, Davidson provides fascinating details about how Austen’s novels were written and the world in which they were composed so modern readers might enjoy them even more.
We are delighted to announce that Matt Hart has been named as one of the eight new awardees of the Lenfest Distinguished Faculty Award.
Congratulations to Austin Graham, who has been awarded a 2018 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship. Prof. Graham's book project. "The Unknowing of American History: Past, Present, and the Historical Novel in the U.S.", sets out to explore historical ignorance in American historical fiction.
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