Asst. Prof. Tina Post receives the Best Book Prize for her first book, Deadpan: The Aesthetics of Black Expression, from the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present.
Post became intrigued with how the gesture of expressionlessness operated in the 20th-century Black performances across literature, visual and performance art, film, theater, dance, the boxing ring and everyday life. For her original insights, she recently received the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present Best Book Prize for her first book, “Deadpan: The Aesthetics of Black Inexpression” (2023). The ASAP Prize recognizes the book that has made the most significant contribution to the study of the arts of the present.The ASAP Prize recognizes the book that has made the most significant contribution to the study of the arts of the present. Read more by Sara Patterson via UChicago Humanities.
Professor ‘investigates how words and images interact,’ finds multiple connections in literature, art, fashion, advertising, philosophy, palentology
Prof. W. J. T. Mitchell may be the only living iconologist on the planet. He draws on ideas from ancient and modern mythology that treat pictures as living things. As a historian of cultural images, Mitchell studies the relationship between words and images, cultivating visual and verbal literacy.
Quadruple congratulations to our extraordinary colleague, Noémie, whose Scripts of Blackness: Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race has now been awarded no less than FOUR distinguished prizes.
Rachel Galvin received a Franke Institute faculty grant for The Poesía Latina Project! Over the next three years, Galvin will conduct videotaped interviews with contemporary poets, editors, literary leaders, and cultural mavens in Chicago, around the U.S., and in Latin America.
Congratulations to Tina Post on her Gerald Kahan Scholar's Prize from the American Society for Theatre Research! Professor Post won for her essay "I Will Will Against Your Way: On Black Embodiment and Poetic Discomposure."
Check out the newest issue of the Chicago Review! The magazine is run by graduate students from across the disciplines, including many from the Department of English.
Please join us on Friday, November 12 at 4pm on Zoom for a memorial service in honor of Michael Murrin, Raymond W. and Martha Hilpert Gruner Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in the Humanities. The Zoom link for the service is: https://uchicago.zoom.us/j/95078689760?pwd=K3hYWk83MEVKNXJ5clNSeTQ3elFrUT09
A virtual symposium to honor the life and work of Professor Lauren Berlant (1957-2021) featuring Romi Crawford, Lee Edelman, Sianne Ngai, and Katie Stewart
