B. Venkat Mani, Professor of German and World Literatures at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, has been awarded the Humboldt Research Prize/Reimar Lüst Prize for International Scholarly and Cultural Exchange by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Germany. Endowed with 60,000 euros, the award recognizes Mani’s outstanding achievements in research and teaching. Mani’s research, which focuses on literary cosmopolitanism in post-colonial Europe, migrants and refugees, as well as on the history of books and libraries in the field of print and digital culture, is considered to be pioneering work.
The Humboldt Research Award will enable Mani to conduct a research stay in Germany beginning in 2025. He will devote himself to archival research for his current book project, Tales of Unsettlement: The Global Novel in the Age of Refugees.