Eleanor Johnson, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, is recipient of the Lionel Trilling Book Award for her book, Waste in the Waters: Poetry and Ecosystemic Thought in Medieval England (University of Chicago Press, 2023).
The Lionel Trilling Book Award is given to a member of Columbia’s faculty whose book was published in the previous year and upholds a level of excellence commensurate with the work of Lionel Trilling CC’25, GSAS’38. The award was established in 1976 in honor of Professor Trilling, a gifted and dedicated teacher who was deeply committed to undergraduate education, as well as a public intellectual known nationally for his scholarship and literary criticism, which appealed to a wide-audience.
Congratulations, Professor Johnson!
