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DEPARTMENTAL & RELATED
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Literature Now: New
Book Series on Contemporary Literature
 We are pleased to announce
Literature Now, a new scholarly book
series on contemporary literature, to be
co-edited by our own Matthew
Hart in collaboration with David
James (University of Nottingham, UK) and
Rebecca L. Walkowitz (Rutgers University).
The series will be published by Columbia
University Press.
The academic study of contemporary
literature, which concentrates on the
writing of the late-twentieth and
twenty-first centuries, is currently
undergoing something of a boom. Literature
Now intends to symbolize the maturation of
the field while helping to shape its
future direction. The series will offer a
distinct vision of contemporary literary
culture, focusing on the literature of the
present and on the ways we understand the
meaning of literature in the present.
Literature Now will be the first-ever book
series to welcome contemporary projects
that are comparative and transnational in
scope as well as those focused on national
and regional literary cultures. For more
information, please email
Professor Hart.
 It
is
with sadness that we note the death of Paul
Violi, who taught poetry in
the Department for many years, most recently
in the fall semester of
2010.
Born
in 1944, Paul had a long and fruitful
career as a poet and a steward of
other poets. He published eleven
books of poetry, most recently Overnight; a
selection of his longer poems, Breakers;
and a selection of non-fiction prose, Selected
Accidents, Pointless Anecdotes.
Awarded the 2001 Morton Dauwen
Zabel Prize from the American Academy
of Arts and Letters, he also received
the John Ciardi Lifetime
Achievement Award for Poetry, two poetry
fellowships from the National
Endowment for the Arts, as well as
grants from The Foundation for
Contemporary Arts, The Fund for Poetry,
the New York Foundation for the
Arts, and The Ingram Merrill Foundation.
Paul taught at numerous
institutions aside from Columbia,
including NYU and the graduate
writing program at New School
University.
The Rachel Wetzsteon Prize has been
established in loving memory of Rachel
Wetzsteon, an esteemed poet,
editor, and member of the Columbia
University Ph. D. class of 1999. It shall be
awarded annually to
that candidate for the Master of Arts degree
in the Columbia University
Department of English and Comparative
Literature who, in the judgment
of the department's Prize Committee, has
written the best master's
thesis on either twentieth- or twenty-first
century poetry. The prize
shall be in the amount of two hundred
twenty-five dollars ($225). Both
continuing and terminal masters students
shall be eligible for the
prize, with preference being given to
neither class of student. If the
Prize Committee determines that no essay in
a given year merits the
awarding of the prize, the prize monies for
that year shall be added to
the prize amount for the following year.
We note with sadness with death of Frank
Kermode
who in the 1980s was the Julian Clarence
Levi Professor Emeritus in the
Humanities in the English department at
Columbia.
Professor Kermode, who died on August 17,
2010, in Cambridge, England,
was one of the most distinguished literary
critics of his
generation. Author of more than fifty
books, he was best known
for his work on Shakespeare and early modern
literature, but he wrote,
as well, on authors as various as Homer,
Philip Roth, and Wallace
Stevens. A prolific reviewer, he
contributed frequently to The London
Review of Books and The Times
Literary Supplement.
His The
Sense of An
Ending: Studies
in the Theory of Fiction (1967) and
The
Genesis of Secrecy (1979) have
endured as classic works of criticism.
His latest book, on E.M.
Forster, was published last December.
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ONGOING SERIES /
SPECIAL
CONFERENCES
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The Theory
Reading Group will be (re)commencing
beginning Spring 2011.
We will be holding three events this
semester starting in February. If
you are interested in obtaining further
information, please contact the
conveners, Alexander Chen (alc2210@columbia.edu)
and Mary Grace Albanese (ma2650@columbia.edu).
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English
Department Reading Groups
Medieval
Guild
Ruen-Chuan Ma – rm2823@columbia.edu
Audrey Walton –
arw2154@columbia.edu
http://columbiauniversitymedguild.blogspot.com/
Old English reading
group
Audrey Walton – audreywalton@gmail.com
Anglo-Saxon
Studies
Colloquium
(multi-institutional)
ASSC@columbia.edu
Medieval Latin reading
group
(interdisciplinary)
Debby Shulevitz –
dshulevitz@yahoo.com
Eighteenth Century
Colloquium
Nicole Horejsi –
njh2115@columbia.edu
Nineteenth Century
Colloquium (British
literature)
Danny Wright – dw2371@columbia.edu
Anna Clark –
aec2137@columbia.edu
British
Studies group
(interdisciplinary)
Nick Dames –
nd122@columbia.edu
Susan Pedersen –
sp2216@columbia.edu
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/britishstudies/
Americanist
Colloquium
Anne
Diebel – acd2126@columbia.edu
Jared
Lister – jml2198@columbia.edu
African
Americanist
Colloquium
J. T. Roane –
jtroane@gmail.com
Science and Literature
reading group
Cat Bohannon -
crb2127@columbia.edu
Graham Sack - gas2117@columbia.edu
Theatre and Performance
Studies reading group
Joseph Cermatori -
jpc2143@columbia.edu
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Anglo-Saxon
Studies Colloquium |
| The
Medieval
Guild |
| The
Columbia
Early
Modern
Seminar |
| The
Cultural
Memory
Colloquium |
| Columbia
New
Poetry |
British
Studies at
Columbia
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