教务长丽贝卡·L. Walkowitz
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教务长 & 学院院长
Claire Tow Professor of English
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丽贝卡·L. Walkowitz is 教务长 and 学院院长, as well as Claire Tow Professor of English他世界十大电子游戏平台学院(十大电竞游戏综合排名)任教. 以前, she was Dean of Humanities and Distinguished Professor of English in the School of Arts and Sciences at Rutgers University. 作为学术带头人, 教务长 Walkowitz focuses on growing new areas of interdisciplinary collaboration, expanding access and success for all members of the College’s community, and articulating the ongoing impact of the liberal arts and sciences on our local, 国家, 以及全球社区.
二十多年了, 教务长 Walkowitz’s research and teaching have explored cosmopolitanism, 多边主义, and multilingualism in 20th- and 21st-century literature. 在她的奖学金中, she has been interested in the ways that writers and other artists create novels, 诗, 论文, 电影, and digital compositions that are intended for global audiences. Her research considers how multilingual artworks can help us think about the global dimensions of local communities, including colleges and universities. She is currently writing a book called The New Multilingualism: Knowing and Not Knowing Languages in Literature, 文化, 和教室. An essay drawn from this project, on the importance of research and teaching in world languages, appeared in The Chronicle of Higher Education. 另一篇文章,“一”,关于 multilingual 电影 designed for global audiences, appeared in the May 2023 issue of PMLA, the flagship journal of literary studies.
教务长 Walkowitz is the author or editor of 10 books, including Born Translated: The Contemporary Novel in an Age of World Literature; A New Vocabulary for Global Modernism; and Cosmopolitan Style: Modernism Beyond the Nation. She is also the author or co-author of many influential 论文 and articles, including “新现代主义研究,道格拉斯·毛, which has helped to set the agenda for the field of modernist studies over the past decade. She has delivered more than 80 keynote and distinguished lectures in the fields of modernism, 当代小说, and world literature in Asia, 欧洲, 澳大利亚, 和北美, and has a substantial record of leadership service to the profession, including serving as president of the Modernist Studies Association in 2014-2015.
教务长 Walkowitz holds an A.B. magna cum laude in American history and literature from Harvard-Radcliffe (1992), an M.菲尔。. in English literature and critical theory from the University of Sussex (1995), and an M.A. (1997).D. (2000) in English and American literature from Harvard. As an undergraduate at Harvard-Radcliffe, she served as the 118th president of 哈佛深红, the nation’s oldest continuously published daily college newspaper.