Research & Innovation

“Whispering Sexuality: Queerness and the Limits of Black Satire” in Greater Atlanta: African American Satire since Obama. Ed. Derek Maus and Kim Donahue (U of Mississippi P, forthcoming Fall 2023)

This scholarship award is one of only two and represents all the universities covered in the region across several neighboring states. Shalom is humbled and honored to be recognized in this way for his work these past three years in the English Undergraduate Advising Office and wishes to thank Karen Lewis and Scott Trudell for their nominations and support. 

This award is offered by the Comparative Literature Department. Recipients of the Clara and Robert Vambery Graduate Student Summer fellowship are selected on the basis of demonstrated work in European and American comparative literary studies in print, in film, or in other newly discovered technological forms. 

Shalom plans to utilize the Fall 2023 semester to devote time to work on his dissertation, titled "Nu Queer Cinema: Jewish Intersectionality in the Digital Age." 

Black Patience: Performance, Civil Rights, and the Unfinished Project of Emancipation is shortlisted for the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present 2023 Book Prize.

Black Patience: Performance, Civil Rights, and the Unfinished Project of Emancipation is a Finalist for the 2023 Hooks National Book Award (Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change).

Black Patience: Performance, Civil Rights, and the Unfinished Project of Emancipation was awarded Honorable Mention for the 2023 John W. Frick Book Award by the American Theatre and Drama Society.

Regicide is a central fact of the tragic—and historic—world of Shakespeare. In this illuminating study, Mr. Mack examines regicide in three of Shakespeare's most interesting and controversial plays, Richard II, Hamlet, and Macbeth.