In 2020, CMCS celebrated its 20th anniversary! To mark the occasion, we invited 20 people who have been integral to the Center’s success and longevity to share an object that they… Read More
Month: December 2020
Virdi Publishes on Disability & Material Culture
Looking for some winter break reading? Be sure to check out Dr. Jaipreet Virdi’s recent publication “Material Traces of Disability: Andrew Gawley’s Steel Hands, ” which appears in a special issue of Nuncius: The Journal… Read More
CMCS Fall Grant Awardees
This application cycle, CMCS awarded four grants from the Graduate Research Fund in Black and African American Material Culture Studies. See below for more information!
Wasserman Awarded MLA’s William Riley Parker Prize
The Modern Language Association of America announced the winner of its fifty-seventh annual William Riley Parker Prize for an outstanding article published in PMLA, the association’s journal of literary scholarship.… Read More
16th Emerging Scholars Symposium — April 24, 2021
Mark your calendars! CMCS is pleased to announce that the 2021 Emerging Scholars Symposium, “Animaterialities: The Material Culture of Animals (including Humans),” will take place virtually on April 24, 2021. Our… Read More