Professor Lillian-Yvonne Bertram and Hoa Nguyen ’91 Receive Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists
They’re among four poets internationally to receive the award.
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“Captivating Genres"
This essay is part of a symposium on Yogita Goyal’s Runaway Genres.
Author/Lead: Sangeeta Ray
Dates:
From Humanity Journal. Read the essay here.
"An Organ for the Seraglio: Thomas Dallam’s Artificial Life"
An essay on fantasies of belonging in an Elizabethan organ-maker’s narrative of his journey to Constantinople.
Author/Lead: Scott Trudell
Dates:
Publisher: Renaissance Studies
Publisher: Renaissance Studies
Renaissance Studies 34, no. 5 (November 2020): 766–83, DOI: 10.1111/rest.12656.
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Weak President: Woodrow Wilson and the Resistance of Modern Multiethnic U.S. and Global Literature
Explore modern U.S. and world literatures in relation to conflicts of race, gender, democracy, and constitutional and international law issuing from the Wilson administration.
Author/Lead: Peter Mallios
Dates:
Book coming soon.
“A Life in Books: An Interview with Author-Designer Warren Lehrer”
The transcription of an extended conversation between multimedia artist and author Warren Lehrer and Brian Davis that began in February 2020.
Author/Lead: Brian Davis
Dates:
Conversation held at Lehrer’s studio in Queens, NY soon after the opening of the exhibition “Warren Lehrer: Books, Animation, Performance, Collaboration” at the Center for Book Arts in Manhattan. They discuss Lehrer’s recent book, Five Oceans in a Teaspoon (2019), a collection of visual poems written by Dennis J Bernstein, visualized by Lehrer, as well as Lehrer’s long running commitments to visual literature and collaborative art going back to the early 1980s. In addition to discussing several of Lehrer’s bookish projects, including his novel A Life in Books (2013), they discuss the different writing and printing technologies Lehrer has worked with and in over the years, as well as current issues in contemporary literature studies, such as documentary aesthetics, autofiction, and satire.
The Past Is Now: On Amin Samman’s “History in Financial Times”
Los Angeles Review of Books
Author/Lead: John MacIntosh
Dates:
A review of Amin Samman's History in Financial Times, which examines the historiography of financial crisis.
"Vanishing Acts: Civil Rights Reform and Dramatic Inversion in Douglas T. Ward's Day of Absence"
Laws are passed in a crisis mood after a Birmingham or Selma, but no substantial fervor survives the formal signing of legislation.
Author/Lead: GerShun Avilez
Dates:
Martin Luther King Jr.’s assessment of the incomplete nature of civil rights, even in the midst of historic legislative change, resonates with experiments in African American literary and performance culture of the 1960s.
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Dressed, But Not Tryin To Impress: Black Women Deconstructing "Professional" Dress
Early career scholars spend a significant portion of their doctoral study and junior careers thinking critically and deeply about how to synthesize the various aspects of academic work.
Author/Lead: Cecilia Shelton
Dates:
Publisher: The Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics
Publisher: The Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics
Three scholars entering new phases of their careers reflect on dress practices as a critically symbolic metaphor for the challenges of thriving as Black women in academia.
Phi Beta Kappa’s Christian Gauss Award Shortlist
Catastrophizing: Materialism and the Making of Disaster
Author/Lead: Gerard Passannante
Dates:
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Shortlist of Phi Beta Kappa.
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“Louise Langdon Norton Little, Grenadian Mother of Malcolm X"
Featured in Caribbean Quarterly
Author/Lead: Merle Collins
Dates:
Publisher: Peepal Tree Press
Publisher: Peepal Tree Press
Caribbean Quarterly, 66:3, 346-369, DOI: 10.1080/00086495.2020.1802868
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Middle Distance: Poems
A probing and commanding final volume from a master poet facing his own mortality.
Author/Lead: Stanley Plumly
Dates:
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
After a diagnosis of cancer, acclaimed poet Stanley Plumly found himself in the middle distance―looking back at his childhood and a rich lifetime of family and friends, while gazing into a future shaped by the press of mortality. In Middle Distance, his final collection, he pushes onward into new territory with extended hybrid forms and revelatory prose pieces. The result is the moving culmination of a long career, a work of fearless, transcendent poems that face down the impending eternal voyage.