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“The Grit and Glory of Dolly Parton” by Emily Lordi
Dec. 1, 2020—By Emily Lordi & Photographs by Craig McDean Nov. 30, 2020 More than 50 years into her legendary career, she’s still capturing America’s particular mythology — its dreams and its disappointments — like no other. IN JUNE OF 1967, Dolly Parton sat down for an interview with a Nashville writer named Everett Corbin. Parton was 21,...
Rachel Teukolsky releases “Picture World”
Oct. 23, 2020—Associate Professor of English Rachel Teukolsky released this month her latest publication, Picture World: Image, Aesthetics, and Victorian New Media. The modern media world came into being in the nineteenth century, when machines were harnessed to produce texts and images in unprecedented numbers. In the visual realm, new industrial techniques generated a deluge of affordable...
Emily Lordi releases “The Meaning of Soul”
Oct. 23, 2020—In The Meaning of Soul: Black Music and Resilience since the 1960s (Refiguring American Music), Emily J. Lordi. Associate Professor of English at Vanderbilt University, proposes a new understanding of this famously elusive concept. In the 1960s, Lordi argues, soul came to signify a cultural belief in black resilience, which was enacted through musical practices—inventive cover...
Lorrie Moore featured in The New Yorker
Oct. 23, 2020—Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English Lorrie Moore is featured in The New Yorker’s September 28th issue with a new short story titled “Face-time“. In context of this story, the author went into conversation with the magazine’s fiction editor, Deborah Treisman, on bearing witness to suffering. Click here to read the full account.
Thea J. Autry Named Founder’s Medalist for Graduate School
Oct. 22, 2020—Thea J. Autry, Ph.D.’20 (English) was named the 2020 Founder’s Medalist for the Graduate School. The Founder’s Medal is a 143-year-old tradition that recognizes the top graduating student from each of Vanderbilt’s 10 schools and colleges. Autry’s research and teaching focus on U.S. literature and visual arts of the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries, with...
Jennifer Fay Wins Chancellor’s Award for Research
Oct. 22, 2020—Professor Jennifer Fay has been named a recipient of the Chancellor’s Award for Research for her book Inhospitable World: Cinema in the Time of the Anthropocene (Oxford University Press, 2018). The Chancellor’s Awards for Research recognize excellence on the part of faculty for published research, scholarship, or creative expression. The awards are given for works presented...
Houston A. Baker Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Oct. 22, 2020—Distinguished University Professor Houston A. Baker was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) in early 2020. Founded in 1780 by John Adams and John Hancock, among others, the AAAS has previously elected luminaries and leaders such as Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Martha Graham, Margaret Mead, and Martin Luther...
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Oct. 20, 2020—The Meaning of Soul: Black Music and resilience since the 1960s (Refiguring American Music) by Professor Emily Lordi A Recommendation by Thea J. Autry, Postdoctoral Fellow Department of English Did you know that soul music has historically found its inspiration in the black Baptist tradition? That in Beyoncé’s Lemonade is a nod to 60s...
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