05/06/2026
👏 Kudos to Juliana Spahr (SHC Fellow, '21) on her Pulitzer in Poetry.
We are thrilled to announce that Juliana Spahr, Frederick A. Rice Professor, has received the 2026 Pulitzer Prize (Books, Drama & Music; Poetry) for her poetry collection, “Ars Poeticas.” As described by the Pulitzer Board, “Ars Poeticas” is “a collection in which the poet takes stock of her personal disillusionment, which she uses to interrogate her relationship to her art form, community and politics.”
Juliana Spahr’s scholarly work focuses on twentieth century and contemporary American literature and its relation to the state and also to social movements. She uses a range of approaches, including data collection, computational and network analysis, archival research, and close reading. She has received fellowships from the Stanford Humanities Center and the American Council of Learned Societies. She has been rewarded the O. B. Hardison Prize from the Folger Shakespeare Library.
The Pulitzer Prize is given annually by Columbia University for exceptional achievements in journalism, arts and letters. Congratulations to Professor Spahr on this phenomenal accomplishment!
You may read more about “Ars Poeticas” and this year’s Pulitzer Prize winners at the link in our bio.
