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The Modern Language Association of America awarded its eleventh Fenia and Yaakov Leviant Memorial Prize in Yiddish Studies for an outstanding translation of a Yiddish literary work to UC Berkeley alumna, Allison Schachter (and co-author, Jordan Finkin). Established in 2000 by the family of Fenia and Yaakov Leviant, the award honors writers who have published an English translation of Yiddish literary works and scholars who have written a cultural study or critical biography in the field of Yiddish or edited a work on Yiddish folklore or linguistics. The prize is presented under the...

Selby Wynn Schwartz's debut novel... After Sappho has been longlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize! The judges write: "A poetic patchwork of fragments of literary history that together take shape as an intergenerational tale of the Lesbian family. An ancestry eruditely, playfully recovered."

Schwartz received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature in 2005, and currently teaches writing at Stanford University. She was awarded the...

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Comparative Literature graduate students Tessa Wood and Christián González Reyes, who have been selected as a Chancellor’s Doctoral Incentive Program (CDIP) Fellows through the California State University system. CDIP prepares gifted doctoral students for an academic career through professional development, mentorship, and grants. Fellows are selected in a competitive process based on their...

Professor Beth Piatote is a featured playwright in the 12th Annual Short Play Festival by Native Voices at the Autry. The festival includes two readings of Piatote's play, Tricksters, Unite! (March 20 at The Autry Museum and March 27 at La Jolla Playhouse).

Plays selected for this year's festival examine "Tricksters in their traditional form, but also in the modern roles they play today."

Tickets are available for free a TheAutry.org/NativeVoices.(...