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Eleanor Johnson Awarded 2025 Mark Van Doren Award for Teaching
Colm Tóibín to be Awarded Honorary Degree from Oxford University on June 25, 2025
Professor Brent Edwards Awarded the 2024 ASCAP Foundation Deems Taylor/ Virgil Tomson Award and the 2024 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award
Professor Jim Shapiro Awarded the 2024 New Deal Book Award
Professor Nicholas Dames Receives Society of Columbia Graduates Great Teacher Award
The Department of English and Comparative Literature Mourns the Loss of Professor Michael Seidel
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Named 2025 Holberg Prize Laureate
Professor Shana Redmond Nominated for a Grammy for Best Historical Album
Professor Colm Toíbín Publishes a New Book of Essays, "On James Baldwin"
Professor Shana L. Redmond Receives The 2024 Constance M. Rourke Award
Professor Branka Arsić Receives Ralph Waldo Emerson Society’s 2024 Distinguished Achievement Award

 

 

 

Professor Hannah Weaver Launches New Podcast, "Proust Curious"
Professor Shana Redmond Contributes Liner Notes for the Screenplay of Jordan Peele's "Us"
Professor Shana Redmond Interviewed on NPR for the Release of "Paul Robeson: Voice of Freedom" (Sony Classical)
Professor Brent Hayes Edwards Receives 2024 American Book Award