Doctoral candidate Kat Addis published her chapter "Equipment for Living: Reading the Proverbs in La Franciade" in Early Modern Écologies eds. P.J. Usher and P. Goul (Amsterdam UP).

Professor John Guillory has published his chapter titled “Things in Action: Shakespeare’s Sonnet 129, Macbeth, and Levinas on Shame” in Renaissance Personhood: Materiality, Taxonomy, Process ed. K. Curran (Edinburgh UP).

Mary Carruthers Elected as 2020 Fellow by the American Academy of Arts & Sciences  

NYU English Department's Professor Emerita Mary Carruthers has been elected as a 2020 Fellow by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, along with two other NYU faculty members.  

Carruthers, whose areas of research are medieval literature and rhetoric, memory and mnemonic technique, and the history of spirituality, has authored The Experience of Beauty in the Middle Ages (Oxford, 2013), The Craft of Thought (Cambridge 1998), and The Book of Memory (Cambridge, 2008 and 1990), as well as Rhetoric Beyond Words: Delight and Persuasion in the Arts of the Middle Ages (Cambridge 2010), a collection of essays.

Other 2020 AAAS fellows include singer and songwriter Joan Baez, former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, Jr., filmmaker Richard Linklater, and author Ann Patchett.

Read the full news release here.

Doctoral candidate Kat Addis' poem "23," an erotic translation of Petrarch, was published in Blackbox Manifold, Issue 24.

Professor Crystal Parikh published her chapter titled “‘I Haven’t Come Back… I’ve Come Here’: American Innocence and the Refugee Child" in The State of Human Rights: Historical Genealogies, Historical Controversies, and Cultural Imaginaries ed. K. Schmidt (Heidelberg: Winter Universitätsverlag).

Professor Jini Kim Watson conducted interviews for, and edited, a video about the refugee crisis, "Refugees Trapped in a Crisis" for Ideas and Futures. Check it out here.

Doctoral candidate Ryan Healey (co-author), "The Uses of Genre: Is There an 'Adam Smith Question'?" in Representations 149.1, 73-102.

Professor Sylvia Marks, “A Gettysburg Address.” Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer 34:1, (March 2020).

Professor Crystal Parikh, “Divining Justice: The Afterlives of War and Empire in Asian/American Culture.” Verge: Studies in Global Asia (Field Trip dossier: “Art, Archives, and Human Rights”) 6:1 (Spring 2020).