News

Maura Spiegel Publishes Sidney Lumet: A Life (St Martin's Press)
Jennifer Wenzel Publishes The Disposition of Nature: Environmental Crisis and World Literature (Fordham University Press)
Nicole Wallack is the new MLA Forum Delegate for GS Nonfiction Prose.
Jennifer Wenzel and Joseph Slaughter were among the grantees of the Fall 2019 Humanities War & Peace Initiative
Christopher Baswell has been elected a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America
Denise Cruz has been named one of the Lenfest Distinguished Columbia Faculty awardees for 2020
Frances Negrón-Muntaner on Puerto Rico, Art, and Decolonial Joy
George Stade Memorial
Matthew Hart has become President of the Modernist Studies Association 2019-2020

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

H.G. Wells Sparked Modernism and the Literary Imagination
Brent Hayes Edwards has won the 2019 Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism

The Truman Capote Award Ceremony will take place at 4 p.m. Oct. 16 in the Old Capitol Senate Chamber. The event will feature remarks by Brent Hayes Edwards and a reception in the Old Capitol Museum. Both events are open to the public.

Saidiya Hartman, has been named a 2019 MacArthur Fellow

Congratulations to our esteemed colleague, Saidiya Hartman, who has been named a 2019 MacArthur Fellow for her outstanding work "tracing the afterlife of slavery in modern American life and rescuing from oblivion stories of sparsely documented lives that have been systematically excluded from historical archives."

Joseph Slaughter has been appointed to the Committee on Global Thought

The Committee on Global Thought welcomes two new faculty members, Nikhar Gaikwad and Joseph Slaughter.

https://cgt.columbia.edu/about/people/committee-faculty/joseph-slaughter/