Faculty News and Annoucements

Debashree Mukherjee has been awarded the SCMS 2021 Katherine Singer Kovács Essay Award for “Somewhere between Human, Nonhuman, and Woman: Shanta Apte’s Theory of Exhaustion,” which appeared in Feminist Media Histories (2020) 6.3: 21–51. This is a prestigious award from the leading film and media studies academic organization in the United States,

The Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies(MESAAS) announces the passing of the MESAAS Business Manager Gregg Labita on January 2nd, 2021. Gregg was a valued member of the staff with his cheerful presence and professional skills in financial management.  Prior to joining MESAAS,  Gregg worked in the

Professor Wael Hallaq has been awarded the TÜBA Prize for 2020. The award is given by the Turkish Academy of Science in recognition of innovative and path-breaking scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences. For more information, see here.

The Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment has just published a feature on Jennifer Wenzel’s new book, The Disposition of Nature: Environmental Crisis and World Literature. For more information, click here.

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 joining our Corresponding Fellowship and four new Honorary Fellows.