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Making of a Poem: Timmy Straw on "Brezhnev" in The Paris Review
March 17, 2023
For their new series Making of a Poem, The Paris Review asked poets to dissect the poems they’ve published in The Paris Review's pages. Timmy Straw’s “Brezhnev” appears in their Winter issue, no. 242.
Please see the link for the interview, and for the poem.
TIMMY STRAW writes on 'Intuition's Ear: On Kira Muratova" in the Paris Review
March 09, 2023
Timmy Straw is a poet, musician, and translator. Their poems “Brezhnev” and “Oracle at Dog” appear in the Paris Review's new Winter issue, no. 242.
See Timmy's article, January, 27, 2023, in The Paris Review on Kira Muratova at
Old Stacks, New Leaves: The Arts of the Book in South Asia edited by Sonal Khullar
January 15, 2023
In the twenty-first century, debates on the future of books and print culture have intensified with the rise of digital technologies, and the contemporary art world has witnessed an explosion of interest in the book form. Amid this artistic and intellectual activity, there has been little scrutiny of book arts in South Asia and their particular ontologies, histories, and genealogies. This volume weaves together scholarly essays, original artistic projects, and works of creative nonfiction to trace a history of illustrated books in South Asia from 1100 CE to the present.
Anirudh Karnick wins Khashu Award for Tagore Studies
November 11, 2022
Anirudh Karnick has won the 2022 Khashu Award for Tagore Studies for his project, Tears Softening Pebbles:Tagore in the Making of Modern Hindi Poetry.
https://southasia.berkeley.edu/khashu-awardees
Professor Liliane Weissberg receives honorary degree from the University of Graz
November 02, 2022
Professor Weissberg had received an honorary degree from the University of Graz this July, 2022, the first woman in the Humanities to be so honored. https://germanic.sas.upenn.edu/news/university-graz-awards-honorary-degree-liliane-weissberg
Professor David Wallace edits National Epics, a collaborative project that investigates the cultural mechanisms of nationalism
October 31, 2022
David Wallace editsDeanna Cachioan-Schanz appointed inaugural graduate fellow at the Journal for the Society of Armenian Studies
October 31, 2022
Deanna Cachoian-SchanzProfessor Ania Loomba honored with the Charles Homer Haskins Prize
October 28, 2022
Professor Ania Loomba honoredComp Lit graduates to begin new job positions
June 30, 2022
Veronique Charles has received a 3-year post doc from Columbia University's Society of Fellows.
Lucas de Lima will be Visiting Assistant Professor in creative writing at Holyoke.
Bryan Norton has received a three-year post doc from the Mellon Society of Fellows at Stanford University.
Cory Knudson will be Visiting Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Eckerd College.
Zain Mian has been offered a tenure track position as Professor of Urdu at the University of Toronto to begin July 2023.
Rachel Salas Rivera's poem is title for Whitney Museum's exhibit no existe un mundo poshuracán: Puerto Rican Art in the Wake of Hurricane Maria
May 26, 2022
no existe un mundo poshuracán: Puerto Rican Art in the Wake of Hurricane Maria is organized to coincide with the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Maria—a category 5 storm that hit Puerto Rico on September 20, 2017. The exhibition explores how artists have responded to the transformative years since that event by bringing together more than fifty artworks made over the last five years by an intergenerational group of more than fifteen artists from Puerto Rico and the diaspora.