Philippe Desan's recent Montaigne biography was featured in UChicagoNews. Prof. Desan has spent most of his academic career studying the life and work of Montaigne, and Montaigne: A Life seeks to "balance our perception of Montaigne today." The full story includes a video of Prof. Desan reading Montaigne's own words.
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).
