Given Foundation Professor in the Humanities and University Organist
German Studies, Music, Society for the Humanities
… in intersections across and among disciplines. My first book, Acting on the Past (2000), was a volume of … the idea of “historical” performance studies. In my first monograph, The Free Fantasia and the Musical …
… and the National Endowment of the Arts. Rankine’s bestselling book, Citizen: An American Lyric, was the winner of the 2015 Forward Prize for Best Collection, the National Book Critics Circle Award for … of being the only poetry book to be a New York Times bestseller in the nonfiction category. She teaches at Yale …
Teaching at Cornell is in the midst of a transformation, with faculty applying the latest research and technologies across disciplines to excite and engage students.
“Wordplay and Powerplay in Latin Poetry,” a book in honor of Frederick Ahl edited by two of his former students, has just been released. The volume comes out of a conference titled “Speaking to Power in Latin and Greek Literature,” which was organized in honor of Ahl at Cornell University in September 2013.
