Alexander Dickow, an associate professor in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures, was one of 12 recipients of a 2018 PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant. Dickow was awarded $2,800 to assist in the completion of his translation from the French of Sylvie Kandé’s Neverending Quest for the Other Shore: An Epic in Three Cantos. An excerpt can be found here.

In addition, Dickow published “Eloge d’un poète sentimental” (In Praise of a Sentimental Poet), Cahiers Tristan Corbière 1 (2018): 219–31; and “Dèze le mécréant, pionnier allophage” (Dez the Impious, Pioneer of Heterophagy), Catastrophes6 (February 8, 2018), online.