Updates

Emily Bloom, Associate Director of The Society of Fellows and the Heyman Center for the Humanities, has won the 2017 MSA Prize for a First Book for her recently published "The Wireless Past: Anglo-Irish Writers and the BBC, 1931-1968" (Oxford University Press, 2016). The Modernist Studies Association prize was award to Bloom in Amsterdam last week.  >>

SoF Alumna Emily Ogden's (PhD, University of Pennsylvania; AB, Harvard University) forthcoming article "Beyond Radical Enchantment: Mesmerizing Laborers in the Americas," will be published in Critical Inquiry.  >>

SoF Alumnus Josh Dubler named a 2016 Andrew Carnegie Fellow. >>

Society of Fellows alumna Cecila Miller recently published Enlightenment and Political Fiction: The Everyday Intellectual (New York/London: Routledge, 2016).  >>

Fellow David Gutkin recently co-edited (with Marti Newland, a Core Teaching Fellow at Columbia) a special issue of the American Music Review on opera in the Harlem Renaissance. They also wrote the introductory article, "H. Lawrence Freeman and the Harlem Renaissance." The issue features selected papers from a conference hosted last summer at Columbia called "Restaging the Harlem Renaissance: New Views on the Performing Arts in Black Manhattan". >>