Jini Kim Watson received the ACLA 2022 Wellek Prize honorable mention for a monograph: Jini Kim Watson, Cold War Reckonings: Authoritarianism and the Genres of Decolonization (Fordham UP 2021).
Fall 2022
Our Chair Elizabeth McHeny’s book To Make Negro Literature: Writing, Literary Practice and African American Authorship (Duke 2021) won the DeLong Book History Prize from the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP).
Brandon Woolf’s book, Institutional Theatrics, was a finalist for the “Outstanding Book Award” from the Association for Theater in Higher Education (ATHE).
Professor Honey Crawford, who joined our department in Fall 2022, is one of the four inaugural fellows for the Rebuild Foundation's Mellon Archival Fellowship. Read more about the fellowship program here.
Professor Maureen McLane was named the Henry James Chair in English and American Letters by FAS Dean Antonio Merlo.
Read Toral Jatin Gajarawala's review of Peter C. Baker's novel Planes, published in the Los Angeles Review of Books.
New York University awarded the 2022 Callaway Prize for the Best Book on Drama and Theatre to Common Understandings, Poetic Confusion: Playhouses and Playgoers in Elizabethan England by William N. West, a professor of English and Comparative Literature at Northwestern University. Read more about the prize here.
Professor Lenora Hanson's book, The Romantic Rhetoric of Accumulation was published last week by Stanford University Press! The work provides an account of the long arc of dispossession from the British Romantic period to today.
