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Jeremy Braddock

Jeremy Braddock is Associate Professor of Literatures in English. His primary field is modernist literature and culture, particularly its production and reception in the United States. His research and teaching interests include media and sound studies, African American literature, and the history of material texts. He received a Ph.D. in English from the University of Pennsylvania, an MA from New York University, and a BA from Middlebury College. Before coming to Cornell, Jeremy taught at Haverford College and Princeton University. He has been a faculty fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center and at the Cornell Society for the Humanities.

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Carole Boyce Davies

Carole Boyce Davies is Frank H. T. Rhodes Professor of Humane Letters and Professor of Africana Studies and Literatures in English. She has held distinguished professorships at a number of institutions, including the Herskovits Professor of African Studies and Professor of Comparative Literary Studies and African American Studies at Northwestern University. She is the author of Black Women, Writing and Identity: Migrations of the Subject (Routledge, 1994) and Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones (Duke University Press, 2008). In addition to numerous scholarly articles, Boyce Davies has also published the following critical anthologies: Ngambika: Studies of Women in African Literature (Africa World Press, 1986); Out of the Kumbla: Caribbean Women and Literature (Africa World Press, 1990); and a two-volume collection of critical and creative writing entitled Moving Beyond Boundaries (New York University Press, 1995): International Dimensions of Black Women’s Writing (volume 1), and Black Women’s Diasporas (volume 2). She is co-editor with Ali Mazrui and Isidore Okpewho of The African Diaspora: African Origins and New World Identities (Indiana University Press, 1999) and Decolonizing the Academy: African Diaspora Studies (Africa World Press, 2003). She is general editor of the three-volume, The Encyclopedia of the African Diaspora (Oxford: ABC-CLIO, 2008), and of Claudia Jones: Beyond Containment: Autobiography, Essays, Poetry (Banbury: Ayebia, 2011). More recent work include Caribbean Spaces: Escape Routes from Twilight Zones (Illinois, 2013) and a children’s book, Walking (EducaVision, 2016) and the forthcoming Circularities of Power. Black Women's Right to Political Leadership (Lexington Books - Rowman and Littlefield, 2022). A member of the scientific committee for UNESCO’s updated General History of Africa, she edited the epistemological forum on “Global Blackness” for the African Diaspora volume. She is a past-president of the Caribbean Studies Association which organized under her leadership the first CSA Conference in Haiti in 2016. Her popular essays and reviews have been published in media including The Washington Post, The Crisis, Ms Magazine, Ithaca Journal, The Black Scholar, Miami Herald, Trinidad Guardian and Trinidad Express.

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Fredric Bogel

Fredric Bogel has taught in the English Department since the 1980s, when he came to Cornell as director of the expository writing program (later, the Knight Institute). He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses mainly in eighteenth-century literature, in critical theory, and in the reading of poetry. His research has focused on Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, later eighteenth-century English literature, theory of satire, modern critical theory, and formalist criticism. His latest book, New Formalist Criticism: Theory and Practice, was published in November 2013 by Palgrave Macmillan. He is currently at work on The Matter of Emotions: Affect and Mechanism in Eighteenth-Century Literature, a study of literature, philosophy, aesthetic theory, theories of acting, and sentimentality that explores the ambivalent movement between materialist and volitional accounts of affective and aesthetic experience.

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Kevin Attell

Kevin Attell’s research and teaching focus primarily on 20th- and 21st-century literature and literary theory. He is the author of Giorgio Agamben: Beyond the Threshold of Deconstruction (Fordham UP, 2015) as well as a number of articles and book chapters on modern fiction, translation, and contemporary continental philosophy. He is currently working on a book titled The Experience of the Novel.

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Elizabeth S. Anker

Elizabeth S. Anker is Associate Professor in the Department of English and Associate Member of the Law Faculty at Cornell University. She has published and taught in the areas of law and literature, human rights and humanitarianism, novel studies, literary criticism, postcolonial studies, immigration and citizenship, contemporary world literature, and legal and political theory.

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Valzhyna Mort

A&S poet wins 2021 Griffin Poetry Prize

Valzhyna Mort, assistant professor of literatures in English, won the 2021 Griffin Poetry Prize in the international category for her 2020 book, “Music for the Dead and Resurrected.”

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Two doctoral students receive Ford Fellowships

Doctoral students Monique Pipkin and Ama Bemma Adwetewa-Badu have been selected to receive 2021 Ford Foundation Fellowships. Honorable mentions were awarded to nine additional Cornell graduate students.

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Migrations grants fund worldwide interdisciplinary projects

Cornell faculty and their community partners will tell the stories of local migrant farmworkers, use documentary film to better understand climate change and dispossession, learn how migratory birds are affected by drug trafficking and more.

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Cornell history course marks 10 years of community

When Corey Ryan Earle ’07 began teaching the Cornell history course The First American University, he had several goals, including giving students a deep understanding and shared appreciation for Cornell’s uniqueness and many pioneering “firsts.” But he didn’t anticipate that 10 years later, the course would create a multigenerational, international community, thousands strong, connected by their ties to the university.

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Cornell poet, scholar receive 2021-2022 Rome Prize

Valzhyna Mort, assistant professor of literatures in English, received the Rome Prize in Literature for 2021-2022. Mary Jane Dempsey, graduate student in the Department of Romance Studies, received the Rome Prize in Modern Italian Studies.

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