CPS congratulates faculty member Gil Z. Hochberg for winning the 2022 René Wellek Prize from the American Comparative Literature Association for her monograph, Becoming Palestine (Duke University Press, 2021)!
Gil is the Ransford Professor of Hebrew and Visual Studies, Comparative Literature, and Middle East Studies at Columbia University and a core faculty member of CPS.
The René Wellek Prizes recognize outstanding books in the discipline of comparative literature. Submissions can pertain to any field of comparative literature, but they are expected to cross national, linguistic, geographic or disciplinary borders.
For more info about the award, click here.
Fore more info about Becoming Palestine, click here.