2024 E-Newsletter - FACULTY

Awards and Recognitions

Nathaniel MackeyThe Caribbean Philosophical Association’s 2024 Nicolás Cristóbal Guillén Batista Lifetime Achievement Award Goes to Nathaniel Mackey

Rob Mitchell - The Society for Science, Literature, and the Arts (SLSA) annual Michelle Kendrick Memorial Book Prize for The Smartness Mandate

Chris OumaDocumentary Studies Grants Awarded to Faculty for Research and Course Development

Akhil Sharma - The Atlantic list of Great American Novels 2024

Aarthi VaddeBass Society of Fellows Awards Its 2024 Chairs

Julianne WerlinThomas Langford Lectureship Award


Books

Taylor Black Style: A Queer Cosmology  (NYU Press)

Mesha Maren - Shae: A Novel (Algonquin Books ) May 21, 2024

Kathy Alexis PsomiadesPrimitive Marriage: Victorian Anthropology, the Novel, & Sexual Modernity (Oxford Press) July 2023

Corina Stan and Charlotte SussmanThe Palgrave Handbook of European Migration in Literature and Culture (Springer)

Aarthi Vadde The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries (W.W. Norton)


Features

Taylor BlackStyle: A Queer Cosmology — Redefining Expression and Identity

Tsitsi JajiDuke Arts Presents Collaborates with Trinity Faculty for Four Performances in April

Akhil Sharma23 Duke Academics Join Michael Klien’s 11th Organ I: A Symposium

Aarthi VaddeOn Humane Tech: The Written Word in a Digital World with Dr. Aarthi Vadde

Ranjana Khanna - Making Sense of the World We Live In: A Conversation with FHI Director Ranjana Khanna