Faculty Distinction 2020/21

English and Comparative Literature

Faculty Distinction 2020/21

Rachel Adams

Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Office of the Provost Faculty Mentoring Award, Columbia University

Rachel Adams

Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Office of the Provost Faculty Mentoring Award, Columbia University

Rachel Adams
Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Office of the Provost Faculty Mentoring Award, Columbia University

Denise Cruz

Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching, Columbia University

Denise Cruz

Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching, Columbia University

Denise Cruz
Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching, Columbia University

Brent Edwards

Peng Family Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Franklin Visiting Scholar, Departments of Romance Languages and African American Studies, University of Georgia

Brent Edwards

Peng Family Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Franklin Visiting Scholar, Departments of Romance Languages and African American Studies, University of Georgia

Brent Edwards
Peng Family Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Franklin Visiting Scholar, Departments of Romance Languages and African American Studies, University of Georgia

Farah Jasmine Griffin

African-American Studies Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies; Chair, Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies and William B. Ransford Professor of English and Comparative Literature and African-American Studies

Dean’s Distinguished Lecturer in the Humanities, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University

Society of Columbia Graduates’ Great Teacher Award

Guggenheim Fellowship

Farah Jasmine Griffin

African-American Studies Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies; Chair, Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies and William B. Ransford Professor of English and Comparative Literature and African-American Studies

Dean’s Distinguished Lecturer in the Humanities, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University

Society of Columbia Graduates’ Great Teacher Award

Guggenheim Fellowship

Farah Jasmine Griffin
African-American Studies Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies; Chair, Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies and William B. Ransford Professor of English and Comparative Literature and African-American Studies

Dean’s Distinguished Lecturer in the Humanities, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University

Society of Columbia Graduates’ Great Teacher Award

Guggenheim Fellowship

Jack Halberstam

Professor of English and Comparative Literature; Director of the Institute for Research on Women, Gender and Sexuality

Kerstin Hesselgren Visiting Professor, The Swedish Research Council

Jack Halberstam

Professor of English and Comparative Literature; Director of the Institute for Research on Women, Gender and Sexuality

Kerstin Hesselgren Visiting Professor, The Swedish Research Council

Jack Halberstam
Professor of English and Comparative Literature; Director of the Institute for Research on Women, Gender and Sexuality

Kerstin Hesselgren Visiting Professor, The Swedish Research Council

Saidiya Hartman

Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Named University Professor

National Book Critics Circle Award

PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction for her book entitled Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals

John Hope Franklin Prize, American Studies Association

Joan Kelly Memorial Prize, American Historical Association

Judy Grahn Prize for Lesbian Nonfiction, Publishing Triangle

Lionel Trilling Prize

Saidiya Hartman

Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Named University Professor

National Book Critics Circle Award

PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction for her book entitled Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals

John Hope Franklin Prize, American Studies Association

Joan Kelly Memorial Prize, American Historical Association

Judy Grahn Prize for Lesbian Nonfiction, Publishing Triangle

Lionel Trilling Prize

Saidiya Hartman
Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Named University Professor

National Book Critics Circle Award

PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction for her book entitled Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals

John Hope Franklin Prize, American Studies Association

Joan Kelly Memorial Prize, American Historical Association

Judy Grahn Prize for Lesbian Nonfiction, Publishing Triangle

Lionel Trilling Prize

Marianne Hirsch

William Peterfield Trent Professor of English

Columbia Faculty Mentoring Award

Marianne Hirsch

William Peterfield Trent Professor of English

Columbia Faculty Mentoring Award

Marianne Hirsch
William Peterfield Trent Professor of English

Columbia Faculty Mentoring Award

Jean Howard

George Delacorte Professor in the Humanities

Presidential Teaching Award, Columbia University

Columbia University Diversity Service Award

Office of the Provost Faculty Service Award, Columbia University

Jean Howard

George Delacorte Professor in the Humanities

Presidential Teaching Award, Columbia University

Columbia University Diversity Service Award

Office of the Provost Faculty Service Award, Columbia University

Jean Howard
George Delacorte Professor in the Humanities

Presidential Teaching Award, Columbia University

Columbia University Diversity Service Award

Office of the Provost Faculty Service Award, Columbia University

Sharon Marcus

Orlando Harriman Professor of English

Ian Watt Lecture, Stanford University

“The Drama of Celebrity: Imitation.” Camwest Lecture, University of Calgary

Sharon Marcus

Orlando Harriman Professor of English

Ian Watt Lecture, Stanford University

“The Drama of Celebrity: Imitation.” Camwest Lecture, University of Calgary

Sharon Marcus
Orlando Harriman Professor of English

Ian Watt Lecture, Stanford University

“The Drama of Celebrity: Imitation.” Camwest Lecture, University of Calgary

Susan Mendelsohn

Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of English and Comparative Literature

Lenfest Distinguished Faculty Award

Susan Mendelsohn

Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of English and Comparative Literature

Lenfest Distinguished Faculty Award

Susan Mendelsohn
Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of English and Comparative Literature

Lenfest Distinguished Faculty Award

Frances Negron-Muntaner

Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Trinity/Heyman Hub, Dublin

Impact Award, Bigs & Littles Mentoring

Frances Negron-Muntaner

Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Trinity/Heyman Hub, Dublin

Impact Award, Bigs & Littles Mentoring

Frances Negron-Muntaner
Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Trinity/Heyman Hub, Dublin

Impact Award, Bigs & Littles Mentoring

Lauren Robertson

Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Lavine Scholar, Columbia University

Lauren Robertson

Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Lavine Scholar, Columbia University

Lauren Robertson
Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Lavine Scholar, Columbia University

James Shapiro

Larry Miller Professor of English and Comparative Literature

New York Times 10 Best Books of 2020 for Shakespeare in a Divided America

Shakespeare in a Divided America listed among books of the year in The Paris Review, The New Statesman, Fortune Magazine, BBC History Magazine, Fahrenheit Magazine, Octavian Report, St.

Louis Post-Dispatch, Times of India

James Shapiro

Larry Miller Professor of English and Comparative Literature

New York Times 10 Best Books of 2020 for Shakespeare in a Divided America

Shakespeare in a Divided America listed among books of the year in The Paris Review, The New Statesman, Fortune Magazine, BBC History Magazine, Fahrenheit Magazine, Octavian Report, St.

Louis Post-Dispatch, Times of India

James Shapiro
Larry Miller Professor of English and Comparative Literature

New York Times 10 Best Books of 2020 for Shakespeare in a Divided America

Shakespeare in a Divided America listed among books of the year in The Paris Review, The New Statesman, Fortune Magazine, BBC History Magazine, Fahrenheit Magazine, Octavian Report, St.

Louis Post-Dispatch, Times of India

Joseph Slaughter

Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Abigail R. Cohen Fellow, Institute for Ideas and Imagination

Joseph Slaughter

Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Abigail R. Cohen Fellow, Institute for Ideas and Imagination

Joseph Slaughter
Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Abigail R. Cohen Fellow, Institute for Ideas and Imagination

Gayatri Spivak

University Professor

Presidential Plenary: “Call for Persistence in Reconfiguring the Global”, Modern Language Association Annual Convention

Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Gayatri Spivak

University Professor

Presidential Plenary: “Call for Persistence in Reconfiguring the Global”, Modern Language Association Annual Convention

Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Gayatri Spivak
University Professor

Presidential Plenary: “Call for Persistence in Reconfiguring the Global”, Modern Language Association Annual Convention

Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Dustin Stewart

Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Heyman Center Fellowship

Louis Gottschalk Prize from the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies for Futures of Enlightenment Poetry

Dustin Stewart

Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Heyman Center Fellowship

Louis Gottschalk Prize from the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies for Futures of Enlightenment Poetry

Dustin Stewart
Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Heyman Center Fellowship

Louis Gottschalk Prize from the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies for Futures of Enlightenment Poetry

Gauri Viswanathan

Class of 1933 Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Humanities War and Peace Initiative grant

Gauri Viswanathan

Class of 1933 Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Humanities War and Peace Initiative grant

Gauri Viswanathan
Class of 1933 Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Humanities War and Peace Initiative grant

Hannah Weaver

Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Heyman Center Fellowship

Rare Book School Discretionary Directors’ Scholarship

Hannah Weaver

Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Heyman Center Fellowship

Rare Book School Discretionary Directors’ Scholarship

Hannah Weaver
Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Heyman Center Fellowship

Rare Book School Discretionary Directors’ Scholarship

The Faculty Distinction awards are compiled annually by the offices of the Executive Vice President for Arts and Sciences in coordination with the Arts and Sciences Departments. The information displayed is archival in nature and reflects distinctions of the previous academic year - 2020 is a collection of awards an honors from the 2019-2020 academic year.

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