Frederick de Armas recently published his first novel, El abra del Yumurí. Based on some fragments written by his mother, Ana Galdos, this novel seeks to re-imagine Havana in 1958, in the months preceding the triumph of the Cuban revolution.
Martha Feldman, Mabel Greene Myers Professor of Music and the Humanities in the College, has won the Otto Kinkeldey award, conferred annually by the American Musicological Society, for her recent publication, The Castrato: Reflections on Natures and Kinds (University of California Press, 2015).
The English translation of Philippe Desan's book Montaigne: A Life recently published by the Princeton University Press was reviewed by The New Yorker, and was the number-one selling book in its category on Amazon. The review, by Adam Gopnik can be found here.
ARTFL (The Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language), a collaboration between the French government and the University of Chicago, has recently worked with colleagues in other departments across campus, and received a three-year grant from the Neubauer Family Collegium for Culture and Society for its Textual Optics Lab. The Textual Optics Lab will be headed by Robert Morrissey (RLL), Hoyt Long (East Asian Languages and Civliations), Haun Saussy (Comparative Literature), Richard Jean So (English), and James Sparrow (History).
Click here to listen to Professor Maria Ana Mariani speak about her fictionalized reportage Dalla Corea del Sud. Tra neon e bandiere sciamaniche [“From South Korea. Between Neon and Shamanic Flags,” Exòrma publisher, 2017]. The interview was done with an Italian cultural radio program, Fahreneit, broadcasted by Radio 3.
