by mesaas | Aug 3, 2020 | Uncategorized |
The British Academy welcomes 86 new Fellows to its world-leading Fellowship, in recognition of their outstanding contributions to subjects within the humanities and social sciences. The 86 academics elected include 52 new UK-based Fellows, 30 overseas academics...
by mesaas | Jul 13, 2020 | All News |
Professor Sarah bin Tyeer has been awarded the Hettleman Junior Faculty Grant by the Office of the Provost. The award is for her project, Canons and Empires: Tensions in Arabic Literary History. For more information, see...
by mesaas | Jul 7, 2020 | All News |
Rym Bettaieb received the Provost’s Innovative Course Design Award to develop the Shahid Listening website. The goal of this project is to provide Columbia Arabic students with authentic listening resources accompanied by a guided learning strategy. The project...
by mesaas | May 27, 2020 | All News |
Dr. Debashree Mukherjee has been awarded a Humanities War and Peace Initiative Grant for a collaborative project with Dr. Ying Qian (EALAC) and Dr. Laliv Melamed (Goethe University, Frankfurt). Their multi-sited project, “Inflamed Publics: A Sensory Study of...
by mesaas | May 27, 2020 | Publications |
Nonhuman figures are ubiquitous in the work of Franz Kafka, from his early stories down to his very last one. Despite their prominence throughout his oeuvre, Kafka’s animal representations have been considered first and foremost as mere allegories of intrahuman...
