These are the general news posts.
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.
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.