Department News

building of the American Academy in Berlin viewed from outside a gate
September 15, 2015
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...