DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

Pulter Project receives MLA Award

The Modern Language Association of America has announced the winner of the twelfth Modern Language Association Prize for Collaborative, Bibliographical, or Archival Scholarship. The prize will be presented to Professors Leah Knight, of Brock University, and Wendy Wall from our own department here at Northwestern, for The Pulter Project: Poet in the Making, a project created in tandem with Northwestern’s Media and Design Studio.

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Professor Christopher Herbert, pictured above with department chair Susan Manning, was celebrated on the occasion of his retirement for 51 years of exemplary research, teaching, and service to Northwestern.  Toasts were given by Brian Bouldrey, Susannah Gottlieb, Christopher Lane, Jules Law, Jeffrey Masten, Barbara Newman, Julia Stern, and Wendy Wall.

At the January, 2020 MLA convention in Seattle, Harris Feinsod responded to a roundtable discussion of his book The Poetry of the Americas: From Good Neighbors to Countercultures (2017/2019). The session, entitled “The Poetry of the Americas: Responses, Extensions, Critiques,” was organized by PhD candidates Zane Koss, Whitney DeVos, and Geronimo Sarmiento, and included remarks by Professors Kirsten Silva Gruesz, Virginia Jackson, Chadwick Allen, and Edgar Garcia.