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August 14, 2025
Anastasia Eccles’s essay “On the Origins of the Witness-Protagonist” (MLQ, June 2024) was awarded the Keats-Shelley Association of America’s 2024 essay prize. Essay link...
August 12, 2025
Stephanie Newell wins the 2025 African Literature Association’s Book of the Year - Scholarship award for Newsprint Literature and Local Literary Creativity in West...
August 6, 2025
Priyasha Mukhopadhyay’s Required Reading is a narratively elegant and intellectually courageous work that threads the author’s perspective through a vast colonial archive....
August 4, 2025
92 distinguished scholars have been elected to the British Academy’s Fellowship, in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the humanities and social sciences. Full...
June 23, 2025
Several years ago, I began to worry that my clothes were making me depressed. I’d gained weight during the pandemic, and shopping online for my new shape was time-consuming...
June 10, 2025
The Samuel and Ronnie Heyman Prize recognizes outstanding scholarly publications or research by a ladder faculty member in the humanities who is untenured at the time that...
June 9, 2025
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins has secured his second consecutive Tony Award. Following last year’s victory in the Best Revival category for his play Appropriate, Jacobs-Jenkins...