English and Comparative Literature

Faculty Distinction 2021/22

Rachel Adams

Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Initiative to Enhance Remote Learning Grant

Rachel Adams

Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Initiative to Enhance Remote Learning Grant

Rachel Adams
Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Initiative to Enhance Remote Learning Grant

Branka Arsic

Charles and Lynn Zhang Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Visiting Class of 1932 Visiting Fellow in the Council of the Humanities and the Department of English, Princeton, NJ

New Literary History Distinguished Lecture, University of Virginia

Humanities Council Distinguished Talk, Princeton University

Branka Arsic

Charles and Lynn Zhang Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Visiting Class of 1932 Visiting Fellow in the Council of the Humanities and the Department of English, Princeton, NJ

New Literary History Distinguished Lecture, University of Virginia

Humanities Council Distinguished Talk, Princeton University

Branka Arsic
Charles and Lynn Zhang Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Visiting Class of 1932 Visiting Fellow in the Council of the Humanities and the Department of English, Princeton, NJ

New Literary History Distinguished Lecture, University of Virginia

Humanities Council Distinguished Talk, Princeton University

Nicholas Dames

Theodore Kahan Professor of Humanities

Heyman Center Senior Fellowship

Nicholas Dames

Theodore Kahan Professor of Humanities

Heyman Center Senior Fellowship

Nicholas Dames
Theodore Kahan Professor of Humanities

Heyman Center Senior Fellowship

Jenny Davidson

Professor of English and Comparative Literature; Chair, Department of English and Comparative Literature

Faculty Mentoring Award, Graduate Student Council, GSAS

Visiting Fellow, Wadham College, Oxford, Hilary and Trinity

Jenny Davidson

Professor of English and Comparative Literature; Chair, Department of English and Comparative Literature

Faculty Mentoring Award, Graduate Student Council, GSAS

Visiting Fellow, Wadham College, Oxford, Hilary and Trinity

Jenny Davidson
Professor of English and Comparative Literature; Chair, Department of English and Comparative Literature

Faculty Mentoring Award, Graduate Student Council, GSAS

Visiting Fellow, Wadham College, Oxford, Hilary and Trinity

Andrew Delbanco

Alexander Hamilton Professor of American Studies

Member, New Boyer Commission on Undergraduate Education in Research Universities

Andrew Delbanco

Alexander Hamilton Professor of American Studies

Member, New Boyer Commission on Undergraduate Education in Research Universities

Andrew Delbanco
Alexander Hamilton Professor of American Studies

Member, New Boyer Commission on Undergraduate Education in Research Universities

Kathy Eden

Chavkin Family Professor of English Literature and Professor of Classics; Paul Brooke Program Chair for Literature and Humanities

Professor honoris causa, International Institute for Hermeneutics

Kathy Eden

Chavkin Family Professor of English Literature and Professor of Classics; Paul Brooke Program Chair for Literature and Humanities

Professor honoris causa, International Institute for Hermeneutics

Kathy Eden
Chavkin Family Professor of English Literature and Professor of Classics; Paul Brooke Program Chair for Literature and Humanities

Professor honoris causa, International Institute for Hermeneutics

Farah Jasmine Griffin

William B. Ransford Professor of English and Comparative Literature and African-American Studies and Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies

PROSE Award for Literature for Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature

Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship

Mellon Foundation Fellow in Residence

PBS NewsHour Best Book of the Year

Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year in Nonfiction

Farah Jasmine Griffin

William B. Ransford Professor of English and Comparative Literature and African-American Studies and Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies

PROSE Award for Literature for Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature

Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship

Mellon Foundation Fellow in Residence

PBS NewsHour Best Book of the Year

Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year in Nonfiction

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

PROSE Award for Literature for Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature

Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship

Mellon Foundation Fellow in Residence

PBS NewsHour Best Book of the Year

Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year in Nonfiction

Jack Halberstam

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

So We Moved: A Portrait of Jack Halberstam, Museum of Modern Art Installation

International Distinguished Guest Lecturer, Summer Theory School, Serbia

Jack Halberstam

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

So We Moved: A Portrait of Jack Halberstam, Museum of Modern Art Installation

International Distinguished Guest Lecturer, Summer Theory School, Serbia

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

So We Moved: A Portrait of Jack Halberstam, Museum of Modern Art Installation

International Distinguished Guest Lecturer, Summer Theory School, Serbia

Saidiya Hartman

Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Honorary Doctor of Letters, Wesleyan University, CT

Honorary Humane Letters Degree, Swarthmore College, PA

Honorary Degree, Bates College, ME

Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Saidiya Hartman

Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Honorary Doctor of Letters, Wesleyan University, CT

Honorary Humane Letters Degree, Swarthmore College, PA

Honorary Degree, Bates College, ME

Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Saidiya Hartman
Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Honorary Doctor of Letters, Wesleyan University, CT

Honorary Humane Letters Degree, Swarthmore College, PA

Honorary Degree, Bates College, ME

Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Shana Redmond

Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Irving Lowens Book Award, Society for American Music

Walter and Lillian Lowenfels Award for Criticism, American Book Award, Before Columbus Foundation

Judy Tsou Critical Race Studies Award, American Musicological Society

Shana Redmond

Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Irving Lowens Book Award, Society for American Music

Walter and Lillian Lowenfels Award for Criticism, American Book Award, Before Columbus Foundation

Judy Tsou Critical Race Studies Award, American Musicological Society

Shana Redmond
Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Irving Lowens Book Award, Society for American Music

Walter and Lillian Lowenfels Award for Criticism, American Book Award, Before Columbus Foundation

Judy Tsou Critical Race Studies Award, American Musicological Society

Joseph Slaughter

Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Advisory Editorial Board, London Review of International Law

Joseph Slaughter

Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Advisory Editorial Board, London Review of International Law

Joseph Slaughter
Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Advisory Editorial Board, London Review of International Law

Gayatri Spivak

University Professor

Elected Fellow, British Academy

Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Institute for the Humanities, University of Illinois at Chicago

Renato Poggioli Lecture, Harvard University

Kneller Lecture, Comparative and International Education Society

Gayatri Spivak

University Professor

Elected Fellow, British Academy

Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Institute for the Humanities, University of Illinois at Chicago

Renato Poggioli Lecture, Harvard University

Kneller Lecture, Comparative and International Education Society

Gayatri Spivak
University Professor

Elected Fellow, British Academy

Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Institute for the Humanities, University of Illinois at Chicago

Renato Poggioli Lecture, Harvard University

Kneller Lecture, Comparative and International Education Society

Dustin Stewart

Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Louis Gottschalk Prize from American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

Lenfest Distinguished Faculty Award

Dustin Stewart

Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Louis Gottschalk Prize from American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

Lenfest Distinguished Faculty Award

Dustin Stewart
Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Louis Gottschalk Prize from American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

Lenfest Distinguished Faculty Award

Alan Stewart

Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Lenfest Distinguished Faculty Award

Alan Stewart

Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Lenfest Distinguished Faculty Award

Alan Stewart
Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Lenfest Distinguished Faculty Award

Colm Toibin

Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities

David Cohen Prize

Irish Laureate for Fiction

Colm Toibin

Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities

David Cohen Prize

Irish Laureate for Fiction

Colm Toibin
Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities

David Cohen Prize

Irish Laureate for Fiction

Gauri Viswanathan

Class of 1933 Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Stanley Kelley Jr Visitorship for Distinguished Teaching, Princeton University, NJ

Distinguished Speaker, India Studies Endowment Lecture, University of Madras, India

Gauri Viswanathan

Class of 1933 Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Stanley Kelley Jr Visitorship for Distinguished Teaching, Princeton University, NJ

Distinguished Speaker, India Studies Endowment Lecture, University of Madras, India

Gauri Viswanathan
Class of 1933 Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Stanley Kelley Jr Visitorship for Distinguished Teaching, Princeton University, NJ

Distinguished Speaker, India Studies Endowment Lecture, University of Madras, India

Jennifer Wenzel

Professor of English and Comparative Literature and of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies

Critical Conversations Series, American Library in Paris

Jennifer Wenzel

Professor of English and Comparative Literature and of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies

Critical Conversations Series, American Library in Paris

Jennifer Wenzel
Professor of English and Comparative Literature and of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies

Critical Conversations Series, American Library in Paris

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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