Luluah Mustafa received the 2016 Merlin Swartz Award for Faculty Excellence in Teaching and Research in Islam, from Muslim Studies at Boston University.
Firdawsii Millennium Indicum: Proceedings of the Shahnama Millenary Seminar, edited by Sunil Sharma and Burzine Waghmar (Mumbai: K.R. Cama Oriental Institute, 2016).
Shilpa Parnami received the Dr. Fumiko Tamura Graduate Fellowship in Foreign Language Education (academic year 2016-2017), from the College of Education at the University of Texas at Austin.
Sarah Frederick was selected to participate in the inaugural BU Digital Humanities Seminar supported by CAS and BUCH. At the end of the seminar, her project to create digital mapping of Natsume Soseki’s trips to Kyoto was awarded additional funds for programming assistance from the SAIL team at the Hariri Institute. She will also use related techniques in her course on Tokyo Literature in the spring.
Jungsoo Kim’s grant proposal for “STARTALK Online Korean Teacher Training” was selected for funding as part of the STARTALK 2017 program. The OKTT program will train 16 Korean language teachers to use instructional technology to enhance their classroom teaching. The entire program will be conducted online from July 3, 2017, with three weeks of instruction period followed by another three weeks during which participants work on their projects and submit them for evaluation. The OKTT team will include Jungsoo Kim, Amber Navarre, Mark Lewis, Shawn Provencal, and Sue Griffin.
Peter Schwartz has just published a book-length translation of André Jolles’s classic work of genre theory, Simple Forms (Einfache Formen, 2017). It’s out from Verso Books (London/New York) with a foreword by Fredric Jameson and a Translator’s Introduction by yours truly, read it here. He also has an essay (“’Guckt euch selbst an!’ Büchner’s Woyzeck and the Pericope Adulterae”) coming out in April in a volume by Brill on Georg Büchner, available here. In November, his experimental music video “C-Shells C-Shore” was featured as an official selection of the Jornadas de Réapropriación found-footage film festival in Mexico City.