News

Farah Jasmine Griffin Named Winner of the 2022 PROSE Award in Literature
Spielberg tried to save ‘West Side Story.’ But its history makes it unsalvageable
Roosevelt Montás Makes His Case for the Importance of the Humanities
Ph.D. Student Akua Banful Featured in the LA Review of Books
Arden Hegele Releases New Book, Romantic Autopsy: Literary Form and Medical Reading
2021 Lionel Trilling Lecture "The Black Studies Project"

In Case You Missed It: watch the 2021 Lionel Trilling Lecture "The Black Studies Project: 50 Years and Counting" by Dr. Hortense Spillers, with respondents Rich Blint and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, from October 6th, 2021.

Gayatri Spivak Was Elected to the British Academy
Shana Redmond was featured in a BBC podcast
Shana Redmond's Everything Man finalist for the 2021 Sterling Stuckey Book Prize
Professor Dennis Tenen was featured in WalletHub's recent piece about States that Vaccinate the Most
Sarah Cole's book runner-up for the 2021 Distinguished Book Award from Columbia University Press
Colm Tóibín’s Publishes New Book, The Magician
Shana Redmond Awarded Walter & Lillian Lowenfels Award for Criticism
Jack Halberstam on the Good Robot: podcast from the University of Cambridge
The Generic Latinidad of “In the Heights”

Frances Negrón-Muntaner is a writer and filmmaker, and a professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia.