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The Virgil Thomson Award for Outstanding Music Criticism in the pop music field recognizes Brent Hayes Edwards for his book, Epistrophies: Jazz and the Literary Imagination, published by Harvard University Press.
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Columbia Spectator: "Marcellus Blount Loved to Dance: Reflections on his 33 Years at Columbia"
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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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Gianmarco Saretto and Jenna Schoen Awarded DH Grant for Medieval Studies
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"Charles Darwin: Styles of Inconsequence," Simon Reader (CUNY College of Staten Island)
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Playwright and Ph.D. Candidate Meadhbh McHugh Adapts Louise O'Neill's 'Asking for It' for the Stage
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Colm Tóibín, Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know: The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce
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Paris Center Honors Gayatri Spivak
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Erik Gray, The Art of Love Poetry
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The Global South Atlantic, Edited by Joseph Slaughter and Kerry Bystrom
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Brent Edwards, Epistrophies: Jazz and the Literary Imagination
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Gauri Viswanathan Granted 2017-2018 Mark van Doren Award for Teaching
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Eleanor Johnson, Staging Contemplation
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Celebration of the Life and Work of Steven Marcus
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The Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities announce their 2018-2019 Fellows
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Branka Arsić Featured in Columbia News
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Professor Sharon Marcus Featured in WLIW21 books program on "Authors and their Homes."
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Dennis Tenen, Plain Text: The Poetics of Computation
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Branka Arsic, Melville's Philosophies
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Alan Stewart, The Oxford History of Life-Writing Vol. 2
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Rita Charon to deliver the 2018 NEH Jefferson Lecture
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Andrew Delbanco, The War Before the War
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Andrew Delbanco named President of Teagle Foundation

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The Virgil Thomson Award for Outstanding Music Criticism in the pop music field recognizes Brent Hayes Edwards for his book, Epistrophies: Jazz and the Literary Imagination, published by Harvard University Press. The book explores the fertile interface between art-making and performance through case studies in jazz literature―both writings informed by music and the surprisingly large body of writing by jazz musicians themselves.

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