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Ato Quayson, Jean G. and Morris M. Doyle Professor in Interdisciplinary Studies and Chair of the Department of English, has been selected as the recipient of the 2021 Robert Penn Warren-Cleanth Brooks Award for his book Tragedy and Postcolonial…

The National Book Critics Circle was founded in 1974 at New York’s legendary Algonquin Hotel by a group of the most influential critics of the day, and awarded its first set of honors the following year. Comprising more than 600 working critics…

Hot off the presses: a Special Forum on “Global Huck: Mapping the Cultural Work of Translations of Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” in the latest issue of the Journal of Transnational American Studies.  Stanford English professor…

Dear CSN Community,

We are pleased to announce that the Center for the Study of the Novel’s podcast, CSN Café, can now be accessed on Apple podcasts, and full transcripts of our episodes can be found on the CSN website. Our…

Please consider submitting or nominating articles and chapters on the works of Herman Melville published in 2020 for consideration for the Hennig Cohen Prize. Preference is given to newer scholars in the field of Melville studies. Since 1998, the…