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Warm congratulations to Lindsay Stern and Nasrin Olla, co-recipients of the 2023 Ralph Cohen Prize from New Literary History. Named for the founding editor of New Literary History, the annual Ralph Cohen Prize recognizes distinguished work by early career scholars in literary and cultural studies.
Congratulations to Rachel Greenspan for her essay, “Naming Argentina: Torture, (Anti)Humanism, and Disappearance in Luisa Valenzuela’s Fictions,” which has won the 2022 Ralph Cohen Prize. Her essay will be published next year in New Literary History.
We are thrilled to announce the publication of NLH 53/3-4, a double issue edited by Urvashi Chakravarty and Ayanna Thompson. The issue includes eleven original… Read More »NLH 52/3-4: “Race and Periodization”
On September 29, Branka Arsić of Columbia University will deliver the NLH Distinguished Lecture, “Marvelous Extinctions: Melville on Animal Suffering.” The lecture is currently scheduled for in-person delivery, though circumstances may require the event to be streamed via Zoom (with details and link forthcoming).