Ayesha Ramachandran, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Director of Graduate Studies, in October published her book The Worldmakers with University of Chicago Press. The interdisciplinary study investigates the transformation of the concept of “the world” in a variety of 16th and 17th century thinkers in fields ranging from cartography to poetry to natural philosophy. Through the lens of the self-conscious shaping of the concept “the world,” Ramachandran explores the early modern...
Carol Jacobs, Birgit Baldwin Professor of Comparative Literature and Professor of Germanic Language and Literature, in October published her new book Sebald’s Vision with Columbia University Press. The book, one of the first in English to consider comprehensively W.G. Sebald’s work, traces the concept of “vision” through Sebald’s novels, major essays, and interviews. Through considering Sebald’s unique intertextuality, Jacobs explores the relationship between Sebald’s moral claim about the...
Robyn Creswell, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, was awarded a Berlin Prize from the American Academy in Berlin. The prize, awarded annually to 15-21 American academics and artists across the humanistic disciplines, provides for a semester-long fellowship at the Academy, located in the Wannsee neighborhood of Berlin, where Creswell will spend the spring semester of 2016 with his family. While in Berlin, Creswell intends to work on an intellectual history of the Middle East, told...
