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Congratulations to Dr. Jocelyn Saidenberg, who has been awarded an Arts & Humanities Teaching Award in recognition of her extraordinary dedication to undergraduate teaching.

Dr. Saidenberg's teaching is distinguished by a dynamic approach to literature, inspiring remarkable sophistication and excitement within the students' approach to challenging modernist texts. Through success in cultivating rigorous close reading practices, she has made a lasting impact on students’ intellectual development, writing skills, and love of literature.

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As a newly minted assistant professor at Cornell University in 2014, Tom McEnaney decided to launch a new course on punk music.

“The only thing that I knew about Cornell was that Greg Graffin from Bad Religion had done his Ph.D. in zoology there,” McEnaney said. “So I thought I would teach a class about punk and maybe invite Graffin.”

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Ava Ratcliff (2027) | Greek and Latin, Comparative Literature

For her SURF project, Ava studied Catullus 64, a short Latin epic poem often discussed for its influence on later works like Virgil’s Aeneid. Rather than focusing mainly on how the poem connects to other classical texts, her research explored how Catullus 64 works on its own through its structure, language, and imagery. In particular, she became interested in the poem’s surprising representations of trees and the natural world, opening up new ways of thinking about environment, art, and human emotion in Latin poetry....

Daphne Rose (she/her) is a 2025 SURF L&S researcher majoring in Comparative Literature. For her SURF project this summer, Daphne will be researching the topic, “”A Necessary Excavation”: Female Trauma from Tragedy to Autofiction”.

How did your research question or process change over the course of the summer?
I realized early on that I had chosen much too broad of a research topic. This is very common, particularly among undergraduates, who likely have never had the opportunity to do original, independent research before, and it comes from a scarcity mindset...