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Chen Receives Distinguished Editor Award

Chen was recognized by the Council of Editors of Learned Journals for her work on VERGE: STUDIES IN GLOBAL ASIAS.

Nielsen Publishes Two New Books

Aldon Nielsen

Aldon Nielsen grows his impressive bibliography of scholarly and creative works with two new publications.

Tina Chen’s Global Asias Initiative Awarded Henry Luce Foundation Grant

The $120,000 grant will support the Initiative’s MAP book series.

Shara McCallum Wins 2022 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award

Shara McCallum

McCallum was recognized by the Hurston/Wright Foundation for her most recent poetry collection.

Gabrielle Foreman Awarded 2022 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship

Foreman was recognized by the MacArthur Foundation for her work on nineteenth-century Black collective activism.

Heather Holleman Publishes New Book on Combatting the “Loneliness Epidemic”

Holleman’s new book equips readers to forge more meaningful connections in an ever-isolated world.

Michael Anesko Publishes Cultural History of Henry James

Michael Anesko

Anesko’s new book considers Henry James’s complex relationship to art—as creator, patron, and subject.

Shirley Moody-Turner Publishes New Collection of Anna Julia Cooper’s Work

Shirley Moody-Turner

Moody-Turner’s new edited collection features a variety of works (some never-before-published) by the influential Black writer, thinker, and activist.

Richard Doyle

Richard Matthew Doyle

Manini Samarth publishes new short-fiction collection

‘Being Here’ was published by University Press of Kentucky in February 2022

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