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DEPARTMENT FACULTY |
- FACULTY PROFILES:
includes contact information (office hours, e-mail, etc.) and areas of
specialization along with details about faculty members' academic
careers, publications, honors, interests
- RECENT PUBLICATIONS
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FACULTY ON
LEAVE 2011-12
For the academic year: Profs. Biers, Howard, Marcus, Shapiro, Stewart
For Fall 2011: Profs. Baswell, Edwards, O'Meally, Spivak
For Spring 2012: Profs. Hart, Hirsch, Jin, Robbins
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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.
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CONGRATULATIONS to Professor Rachel Adams
She has received a Lenfest
Distinguished Columbia Faculty Award
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The Department is pleased to announce that Rachel Adams is a winner of
this year’s Lenfest Distinguished Columbia Faculty Award. These awards
recognize members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences “of unusual merit
across a range of professorial activities—including scholarship,
University citizenship, and professional involvement—with a primary
emphasis on the instruction and mentoring of undergraduate and graduate
students.” Professor Adams is a leader in the field of American
literature and culture. A versatile and exciting teacher, she has
published several book, including Sideshow U.S.A.: Freaks and the American Cultural Imagination (2001) and Continental Divides: Remapping the Cultures of North America (2009). Currently, she is working to establish a Disability Studies concentration at Columbia.
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CONGRATULATIONS to Professor JENNY
DAVIDSON
She has received the 2010 Mark
Van
Doren
Award
for
Teaching
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The Columbia College Student Council's Academic Awards
Committee is pleased to announce this year's winner of the Mark Van
Doren award.
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.
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CONGRATULATIONS to Professor JAMES
ELI ADAMS
His book, "A History of Victorian
Literature," has won a Choice award for Outstanding Academic Title
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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.
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CONGRATULATIONS to Professor JULIE
CRAWFORD
She has received a Lenfest
Distinguished Columbia Faculty Award
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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.
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CONGRATULATIONS to Professor JOAN
FERRANTE
She has received a Emeritus Fellowship given by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
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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
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