{"id":1793,"date":"2015-05-29T16:54:36","date_gmt":"2015-05-29T20:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter\/?page_id=1793"},"modified":"2015-05-29T16:54:36","modified_gmt":"2015-05-29T20:54:36","slug":"rosen-wins-top-honor-for-book","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-spring2015\/along-the-walk\/rosen-wins-top-honor-for-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Rosen Wins Top Honor for Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-spring2015\/files\/2015\/05\/ROSEN_PHOTO_crop.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-1845\" alt=\"ROSEN_PHOTO_crop\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-spring2015\/files\/2015\/05\/ROSEN_PHOTO_crop-300x264.jpg\" width=\"210\" height=\"185\" \/><\/a>David Rosen, professor of English and chair of the English Department, along with co-author Aaron Santesso, recently received the James Russell Lowell Prize for their 2013 book, <i>The Watchman in Pieces: <\/i><em>Surveillance, Literature, and Liberal Personhood<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Rosen and Santesso, an associate professor in Georgia Tech\u2019s School of Literature, Media, and Communication, met when each was doing a one-year stint at Wesleyan University. They realized that their areas of interest had some overlap and began collaborating on this book.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-spring2015\/files\/2015\/05\/watchman.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1828\" alt=\"watchman\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-spring2015\/files\/2015\/05\/watchman.jpg\" width=\"221\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-spring2015\/files\/2015\/05\/watchman.jpg 221w, https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-spring2015\/files\/2015\/05\/watchman-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 221px) 100vw, 221px\" \/><\/a><em>The Watchman in Pieces<\/em>\u00a0explores how ideas about personhood and surveillance have evolved together over the last 500 years. In this history, literature has played a major role, as both a record of, and laboratory for, changing beliefs. The authors\u2019 primary claim is that the ideas about liberal personhood in literature make it possible for citizens to participate in an environment where they are being watched and responding to that surveillance.<\/p>\n<p>The Lowell Prize is awarded each year to an outstanding book written by a member of the Modern Language Association. Rosen accepted the honor at the Modern Language Association Annual Convention, held in Vancouver, British Columbia, in January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Rosen, professor of English and chair of the English Department, along with co-author Aaron Santesso, recently received the James<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"parent":1466,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-full-width.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-spring2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1793"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-spring2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-spring2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-spring2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-spring2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-spring2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1793\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-spring2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-spring2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}