Martin Hägglund’s This Life has been awarded the René Wellek Prize for the best book in the field by the American Comparative Literature Association. The Wellek Prize is generally considered to be the most prestigious award in comparative literature. Past winners include Umberto Eco and Edward Said. In their prize motivation, the awards committee offered high praise for This Life:
“Martin Hägglund’s This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom is unclassifiable. A work of great critical...
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
I am saddened to report to you that Marguerite Waller died a few days ago. Margie received her Ph.D from Yale’s Comparative Literature Department. She taught at Amherst College and the University of California-Riverside, and published with distinction on English and Italian literature and on social and women’s issues. She was a vibrant intellectual and personal presence in our field, and she will be missed.
I enclose the following obituary, written by...
