Graduate Student News
Gianmarco Saretto Jenna Schoen Awarded DH Grant for Medieval Studies
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Playwright and Ph.D. Candidate Meadhbh McHugh Adaps Louise O'Neill's 'Asking for It' for the Stage
Faculty Publication
Branka Arsic, Melville's Philosophies
Faculty Publication
Eleanor Johnson, Staging Contemplation
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Prof. Andrew Delbanco named President of Teagle Foundation
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Erik Gray, The Art of Love Poetry
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Alan Stewart, The Oxford History of Life Writing Vol. 2
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Brent Edwards, Epistrophies: Jazz and the Literary Imagination
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Dennis Tenen, Plain Text: The Poetics of Computation
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The Global South Atlantic, Edited by Joseph Slaughter and Kerry Bystrom
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Gauri Viswanathan Granted 2017-2018 Mark van Doren Award for Teaching
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Paris Center Honors Professor Gayatri Spivak
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VIDEO: Prof. Joseph Slaughter, "Images that Resemble Us Too Much: natives, corporations, humans, and other personified creatures of international law"

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The conference was part of a multidisciplinary and multilingual project, analyzing Spivak’s research and militant activities through the perspective of the diverse academic fields upon which she has had a profound impact: literary theory, translation, political philosophy, postcolonial studies, gender studies, anthropology, education, history.
We are devastated by the loss of our beloved friend and colleague Marcellus Blount, who passed away earlier this week. Marcellus had taught at Columbia since 1985, inspiring students with his courses on American and African-American literary and cultural studies in both the Department of English and Comparative Literature and the Institute for Research in African American Studies.

Meadhbh McHugh's latest play debuts at The Everyman theatre in Cork, Ireland this June, and moves to the Abbey Theatre, Dublin in November. For more information see here.
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