Branka Arsić is the Charles and Lynn Zhang Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.
Branka Arsić | |
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| Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship (2019) James Russell Lowell Prize (2016) Ralph Waldo Emerson Society’s 2024 Distinguished Achievement Award[1] |
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| Discipline | American Literature |
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Biography
editArsić was born in Serbia and received her PhD from the University of Belgrade.[2][3] She taught at Central European University in Budapest and the State University of New York at Albany before joining the Columbia University faculty in 2012.[3] She also taught at the Center for Women's Studies in Belgrade.[4][5] Her scholarship specializes in the literature of the 19th century Americas and its scientific, philosophical and religious contexts.[6][7] She was praised for "sharing insights that enable students to see canonical literature in a new light, helping them connect those works to contemporary issues and experiences."[3]
Her book on Henry David Thoreau, Bird Relics: Grief and Vitalism in Thoreau, won the MLA's James Russell Lowell prize for the outstanding book of 2016.[8] She was named a Great Immigrant by Carnegie Corporation of New York in 2018.[9] She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2019 in the field of American literature.[10][11]
Arsić was a visiting professor at Brown University.[2] She is married to Brown professor David Wills.[12][13]
References
edit- ^ "2024 Distinguished Achievement Award Announcement - Emerson Society". July 2024.
- ^ a b "Branka Arsić | English Department". www.brown.edu. Retrieved 2022-05-19.
- ^ a b c York, Carnegie Corporation of New. "Branka Arsić". Carnegie Corporation of New York. Retrieved 2022-05-19.
- ^ "Feminism and Yu: Feminist Magazines in Yugoslavia - Ms. Magazine". msmagazine.com. 12 March 2022. Retrieved 2022-05-19.
- ^ Belgrade, Computing Centre, School of Electrical Engineering, University of. ""Women's Movements Are Active and Growing Stronger" | Knjizenstvo". www.knjizenstvo.rs. Retrieved 2022-05-19.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ "Branka Arsić | The Department of English and Comparative Literature". english.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2022-05-19.
- ^ Laux, Cameron. "The best early novels you've never heard of". www.bbc.com. Retrieved 2022-05-19.
- ^ "Branka Arsić to Receive MLA's James Russell Lowell Prize". Columbia News. Retrieved 2022-05-19.
- ^ "English Professor Redefines Literature of the American Renaissance". Columbia News. Retrieved 2022-05-19.
- ^ "Branka Arsić". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 2022-05-19.
- ^ "Branka Arsic wins Guggenheim Fellowship for American Literature | ICLS | Columbia University". Retrieved 2022-05-19.
- ^ "Branka Arsić: Druga Srbija u Americi - Ljudi - Dnevni list Danas" (in Serbian). 2017-12-20. Retrieved 2022-05-19.
- ^ "Wills, David". vivo.brown.edu. Retrieved 2022-05-19.