Peter Brooks, Sterling Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Yale University, will become the Mellon Visiting Professor from 2008-2012 in the Department of Comparative Literature and the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University and lecturer with the rank of professor from 2008-2014. Brooks, whose scholarly work crosses several disciplines, including literature, law, and psychiatry, is currently director of a Mellon project, "Ethics in Reading and Cultures of Pr
Archive – January 2009
The Phi Beta Kappa Book Awards are given each year in December for outstanding scholarly works published in the United States. The winning books, drawn from the fields of humanities, social sciences, natural sciences and mathematics, must be of broad interest and accessible to the general reader.
The citation for Professor Brooks reads as follows:
Peter Brooks will receive the Christian Gauss Award for /Henry James Goes to Paris <http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8367.html>/ (Princet
