Faculty News
Andrew Delbanco's The War Before the War Wins 2019 Lukas Prize
Faculty Publication
Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments
Faculty News
"Increasing the Visibility of the Humanities," The Record interviews Dean of Humanities and Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Sarah Cole
Faculty News
Celebration of the Life and Work of Steven Marcus
Faculty Publication
Colm Tóibín, Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know: The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce
Faculty News
Matthew Hart Awarded Lenfest Distinguished Faculty Award
Faculty News
Hannah Weaver Announced as New Junior Medievalist
Faculty and Graduate Student News
Faculty and Ph.D. Candidates Named The Society of Fellows and Heyman Center Fellows
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Jenny Davidson's Reading Jane Austen was named a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title for 2018.
Faculty News
T. Austin Graham awarded 2018 NEH Fellowship
Faculty News
Columbia Spectator: "Marcellus Blount Loved to Dance: Reflections on his 33 Years at Columbia"
Faculty News
Saidiya Hartman has been named a 2019 MacArthur Fellow
Faculty Publication
The Global South Atlantic, Edited by Joseph Slaughter and Kerry Bystrom
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"School Photos and their Afterlives," A Workshop with Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer
Faculty News
Andrew Delbanco is 2019 recipient of the Lionel Trilling Book Award
Faculty News
George Stade (1933-2019)
Faculty Publication
Brent Edwards, Epistrophies: Jazz and the Literary Imagination
Faculty News
Joseph Slaughter has been appointed to the Committee on Global Thought
Faculty Publication
Alan Stewart, The Oxford History of Life-Writing Vol. 2
Faculty News
A Celebration of the Life of Prof. Edward W. Tayler
Faculty Publication
Eleanor Johnson, Staging Contemplation
Inventing Tomorrow
Faculty News
Rachel Adams and Branka Arsić have been named as 2019 John Simon Guggenheim Fellows
Faculty Publication
Andrew Delbanco, The War Before the War
Inventing Tomorrow
Faculty News
Brent Hayes Edwards has received the 2019 Truman Capote Award

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Please join us on December 2nd, 4 P.M. in Buell Hall in the Maison Francaise as we remember our friend and colleague, George Stade. https://english.columbia.edu/announcements/george-stade-1933-2019

Dean Sarah Cole spoke with Eve Glasberg of Columbia News regarding the publication of Cole's new book, Inventing Tomorrow: H.G.
Congratulations to Matthew Hart, who has become President of the Modernist Studies Association for the upcoming year to October 2020. The MSA is devoted to the study of the arts in their social, political, cultural, and intellectual contexts from the late 19th through the mid-20th century. Hart will preside over the 2020 annual meeting of the Association in Brooklyn, for which Columbia is one of the host institutions.
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