Hearty congratulations to Thomas W. Howard, whose essay “Anesthetic Reading: Ether, Nitrous Oxide, and Nineteenth-Century Interpretation” has won the 2025 Ralph Cohen Prize from New Literary History. Currently teaching at Bilkent University (Ankara, Türkiye), his research focuses on nineteenth-century American literature, literature and science, and the environmental humanities. The essay will be published in an upcoming issue of New Literary History.
Warm congratulations to Akrish Adhikari, recipient of the 2024 Ralph Cohen Prize from New Literary History. Adhikari, who teaches French at Wayne State University in Detroit, was recognized for his essay “Fanon’s Typewriter.” He works on topics in Francophone African and Caribbean studies, media studies, and critical theory. The essay will be published next year in a forthcoming issue of New Literary History.
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”
Congratulations to Doyle Calhoun for his essay, “Dead Narrators, Queer Terrorists: On Suicide Bombing and Literature,” which has won the 2021 Ralph Cohen Prize. His essay will be published next spring in New Literary History.
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).
On September 24, Merve Emre will join authors Paul Reitter and Chad Wellmon in an NLH Forum on Permanent Crisis: The Humanities in a Disenchanted Ages, just out from the University of Chicago Press. The Forum will be held on Zoom, with details and link forthcoming.