Hello COM colleagues and students. I hope the first couple of weeks of the quarter have gone well for you. I am writing with a few announcements of recent achievements by members of our COM community.
Congratulations to our graduate student Elmira Louie, whose article “Crossing Borders and Connecting Feminists: 'Global Iran' and Solidarity Protests in Latin America” has appeared in the Digest of Middle East Studies. If you would like to read her article, it’s available at the following links: DOI (requires institutional access): http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/dome.70006. Shareable author link (no institutional access required): https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author/BGHJNYBRVEBNEH2JEZUR?target=10.1111/dome.70006
Our graduate student Mingrui Wen recently received an honorable mention in the CEE’s Graduate Student and Postdoc Equitable Syllabus Honor competition. You can read more about the competition and the awardees here. Invite Mingrui out for coffee to hear more about his syllabus!
Turning to our faculty: I am very pleased to announce that Stefan Uhlig has been awarded the Jean-Pierre Barricelli Prize for the year’s best book in Romanticism studies. Stefan and his co-editor Yasmin Solomonescu received this honor for their volume Persuasion After Rhetoric in the Eighteenth Century and Romanticism (Oxford UP, 2024).
Stefan and Yasmin received the Barricelli Prize from the International Conference on Romanticism, an organization of academics from over twenty countries representing several disciplines, including comparative literature, art history, philosophy, educational theory, musicology, history of science, and others. Founded in 1993 in the United States, the ICR’s mandate is to study the achievements of the era dominated by the Romantic movement, generally bracketed by the 1770s and the 1840s. The Barricelli Prize is named after the association’s first president and is selected from entries submitted for consideration by academic presses.
- Cheri Ross