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Provost and Dean of the Faculty @BarnardCollege. Claire Tow Professor of English. #LiteratureNow @ColumbiaUP. @MarshallScholar, @thecrimson 118th President

New York, NY
Joined November 2015
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In her Afterword to our new special issue, "The Language Challenge: Modernisms in Multilingual South Asia,” Rebecca Walkowitz writes about accepting the challenge of language, and rising to it. Read it here: modernismmodernity.org/artic…
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If you're passionate about languages and want to explore why they're essential to our lives and society, don't miss the talk on Oct. 30 with Rebecca Walkowitz (@rlwalkowitz), Provost and Dean of the Faculty, Claire Tow Professor of English at Barnard College.
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Barnard Provost and Dean of the Faculty Rebecca Walkowitz spoke to Spectator about the curriculum, academic freedom, and joining a senior leadership team that continues to see turnover during one of its most tumultuous times in recent history. l8r.it/mV2G
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BREAKING: Rebecca Walkowitz will serve as Barnard’s provost and dean of the faculty beginning on June 1 following a monthslong national search, Barnard President Laura Rosenbury announced in a Monday email to the college community. l8r.it/geWs
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Rebecca L. Walkowitz retweeted
We are pleased to announce that Rebecca L. Walkowitz has been named Barnard College’s new Provost and Dean of the Faculty; she will assume the role on June 1. @rlwalkowitz bit.ly/4aRwCUv
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Looking forward to today's masterclass "Born Translated" at @ugent with @rlwalkowitz. Thanks to the amazing team for organising it!
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“We’ve taken a course that has been important to generations of @RutgersU undergraduates and reinvented it to make it more useful, engaging and effective" - Rebecca L. Walkowitz, dean of humanities. go.rutgers.edu/dorhthup @RutgersSASHUM @RutgersNB #excellenceinhumanities
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Rebecca L. Walkowitz retweeted
With the recent arrivals of MIGRANT AESTHETICS, by Glenda Carpio; WRITING BACKWARDS, by @XanderManshel; and BIG FICTION, by @dan_sinykin, it's been a great Fall for #LiteratureNow! Read more about the series here: bit.ly/3p6XKYj @ColumbiaUP
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Accurately and eloquently put. The author covers more than just languages in this piece. Opinion | Gutting Language Departments Would Be a Disaster chronicle.com/article/guttin…
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Opinion: We need world languages more than ever. Here are some paths forward. chroni.cl/3RuRZoj
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Opinion: A Rutgers dean on how to do foreign-language study now. chroni.cl/3rqw3jp
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Rebecca L. Walkowitz retweeted
.@rlwalkowitz, Gutting language departments would be a disaster chronicle.com/article/guttin… "academic leaders should recognize that universities are not utilitarian spaces, nor should they be...universities are collectives that thrive on the margin, both intellectually and socially"
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The excellent @rlwalkowitz on the importance of languages & linguistics at the current AI moment when language as the critical platform for information transfer is increasingly necessary for students to understand. @chronicle @UofUHumanities chronicle.com/article/guttin…
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Rutgers not once but twice in the long-awaited PMLA special issue on Translation! Featuring our own @rlwalkowitz & Rutgers CompLit grad student Penny Yeung on "No More Translations". Congrats to both! cambridge.org/core/journals/…
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“Viewed as a collective enterprise, there is no other institution that has taken on the task of thinking critically about ourselves.” Ari Linden advocates for university’s role in society, in a new essay for PB: buff.ly/3CztuO1
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Opinion: Against false cosmopolitanism. chroni.cl/3OJE0cP
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Rebecca L. Walkowitz retweeted
Now available! TURN THE WORLD UPSIDE DOWN: EMPIRE & UNRULY FORMS OF BLACK FOLK CULTURE IN THE U.S. & CARIBBEAN, by Imani Owens via the Black Lives in the Diaspora series. bit.ly/431Mb8w @ColumbiaUP
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Rebecca L. Walkowitz retweeted
Her minor in Russian @RutgersNB fulfilled a lifelong dream of learning the language of her parents, who fled anti-Jewish persecution in Europe. Join the Year of Languages at SAS and pursue your dream language. go.rutgers.edu/nqqisp04 @RutgersSASHUM
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