In this interview with Paul Sawyer, Culler, two-time chair of the English department, offers some reflections on the enduring value of theory as an unbounded, ever-changing series of questions and vantage points. (Jan. 24, 2008)
The George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism for the 1997-8 season has been awarded to Alisa Solomon. Solomon is a staff writer at the 'Village Voice', where she writes theater criticism as well as news features on a wide range of political and cultural subjects.
Great poetry still matters even in these most bellicose of times. To wit: Alice Fulton, professor of English at Cornell University, has been awarded the 2002 Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry for her 2001 book of poetry, Felt. The prestigious $10,000 biennial prize, sponsored by the Library of Congress, will be presented to Fulton on Thursday, Dec. 5, at 8 p.m. in the Mumford Room of the James Madison Building in Washington, D.C. Fulton will read from her works, and a public reception will follow. The Bobbitt prize recognizes the most distinguished book of poetry written by an American and published during the previous two years. Fulton was chosen by a three-member jury of American poets appointed in July by a selection committee composed of the librarian of Congress, the poet laureate consultant in poetry, a publisher named by the Academy of American Poets and a literary critic nominated by the Bobbitt family. (November 14, 2002)
Carl E. Sagan, 62, the David Duncan Professor of Astronomy and Space Sciences and director of the Laboratory for Planetary Studies died Dec. 20, 1996, in Seattle, Wash.
Cornell's Solar Decathlon house - a full-scale home that uses only the sun's energy - has arrived in Washington, D.C., in time for the Department of Energy's solar house contest on the National Mall, Oct. 7 to 14.
When a survey of female Cornell University students revealed their preferences in formal evening gowns, three Cornell textile and apparel students set out to grant their wishes.
Just days from the official start of summer - June 20 at 10:24 p.m. EDT - climatologists from the Northeast Regional Climate Center (NRCC) at Cornell won't let you soon forget this past winter's snow.
Just one month after the terrorist attacks in the United States, more than 70 national and state leaders and college and university presidents, staff and students from across New York gathered to celebrate the signing of the charter for the New York Campus Compact (NYCC) at Pace University in lower Manhattan, six blocks west of the World Trade Center site.
Several members of the Cornell community are playing key roles in the 1997 United Way campaign on and off campus this fall. Their efforts, which started a few months ago, are aimed at raising $1.46 million.