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FACULTY NEWS
The department is very pleased to announce that Marianne Hirsch, the William Peterfield Trent Professor of English and Comparative Literature, has been elected as Second Vice President of the Modern Language Association. She will automatically become First Vice President in January of 2012 and President in January of 2013. She and the other members of the Executive Council are elected by the MLA membership and have fiduciary and administrative responsibility for the Association. From 2003 to 2006, Professor Hirsch served as Editor of PMLA, the scholarly journal of the Association. Her major recent publications include, with Leo Spitzer, Ghosts of Home: The Afterlife of Czernowitz in Jewish Memory and History (2010) and, as single author, Family Frames: Photography, Narrative, and Postmemory (1997), The Familial Gaze (ed. 1999), Time and the Literary (co.ed. 2002), Teaching the Representation of the Holocaust (co.ed. 2004), and Grace Paley Writing the World (co.ed. 2009). Her book The Generation of Postmemory: Gender and Visuality After the Holocaust and her co-edited book, Rites of Return, are forthcoming in 2011.
The 49th Annual Mark Van Doren Award which honors a Columbia professor for his/her commitment to undergraduate instruction, as well as for "humanity, devotion to truth, and inspiring leadership" has been given to Jenny Davidson, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature. The award is named in honor of Mark Van Doren, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, novelist, literary critic, and longtime member of Columbia's faculty with a reputation for pedagogical greatness. Professor Davidson earned her Ph.D from Yale in 1999, and specializes in Eighteenth-century literature, though she is also an expert on British cultural and intellectual history and English literature. She is the author of Heredity (2003), and The Explosionist (2008). Professor Davidson is praised by students in all her classes for her innovative assignments, her ability to facilitate student participation even in lecture classes, and her genuine care for her students' educational experience. Professor Davidson is an exceptional professor and the Committee is delighted to bestow upon her the 2010 Mark Van Doren Award for Teaching.
Every year, Choice publishes a list of Outstanding Academic Titles that were reviewed during the previous calendar year. This prestigious list reflects the best in scholarly titles reviewed by Choice and brings with it the extraordinary recognition of the academic library community. The list is quite selective: it contains approximately ten percent of some 7,000 works reviewed in Choice each year. Choice editors base their selections on the reviewer's evaluation of the work, the editor's knowledge of the field, and the reviewer's record.
Julie Crawford has been selected as recipient of this year's Distinguished Columbia Faculty Award. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences gives this honor annually to junior and senior faculty members who have shown exceptional merit in scholarship and dedication to teaching. The awards, established in 2005 by University Trustee Gerry Lenfest (Law '58), each come with a stipend of $25,000 per year for three consecutive years.
Joan Ferrante, Columbia Professor emerita of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, has received a $40,000 grant to build on Epistolae, the online database created by Ferrante and CCNMTL that showcases a collection of letters to and from women during the 4th to 13th centuries. Ferrante was recently featured in The Record for receiving an Emeritus Fellowship from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support the enhancement of Epistolae and continue her research on understanding the roles of women in medieval times, which she started over 20 years ago. First released in 2000, Epistolae is a public website that offers scholars and students a repository of texts, translations, and background information about women engaged in correspondence in the Middle Ages. The letters, originally written in Latin, are translated to English and linked to biographical sketches of the women who wrote or received them. According to the article, "Retirement for These Professors Means More Work," Ferrante will use the Emeritus Fellowship to hire translators for 2,000 letters waiting to be added to the online database. Click here to read the article article, "Retirement for These Professors Means More Work." |
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