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普林斯顿大学祝贺安妮·卡森获诺贝尔奖,却曾拒绝为其提供终身教职Princeton Celebrates Anne Carson, a Nobel Prize Winner Who Was Denied Tenure

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The Canadian poet and essayist Anne Carson in 2015. She left the faculty of Princeton University in the mid-1980s after she was denied tenure. Credit... Pontus Lundahl/TT News Agency, via Associated Press

安妮·卡森获得了诺贝尔奖,但普林斯顿大学在赞美她时却引发争议。周四被授予文学奖的卡森在20世纪80年代在该校任教时曾被拒绝授予终身教职,这导致社交媒体用户对该校的祝贺信息进行了嘲讽。来看看这位错过的诺贝尔奖得主:安妮·卡森。

Anne Carson Won a Nobel Prize, but Princeton Can’t Win in Praising Her Carson, who was awarded the Literature prize on Thursday, was denied tenure when teaching at the university in the 1980s, leading social media users to mock a congratulatory message.

加拿大诗人兼散文家卡森于周四被授予诺贝尔文学奖后不久,普林斯顿大学就在社交媒体上发文赞扬她,并指出她曾作为古典学教授在那里任教。该校古典学系也于周四在其网站上向卡森表示祝贺。

Meet the Nobel laureate who got away: Anne Carson.

而且该校也曾欢迎她重返校园:一年前,卡森重返普林斯顿校园,在一场座无虚席的讲座上为400多名听众演讲。

Not long after Carson, the Canadian poet and essayist, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday, Princeton University praised her in a social media post that noted that she had once taught there as a classics professor. The university’s classics department also congratulated Carson on its website on Thursday.

但该校对卡森的赞誉也招致了批评,社交媒体用户纷纷指出,普林斯顿在20世纪80年代曾拒绝给予她终身教职——这是一种备受追捧的长期教职岗位。

And the university has also welcomed her back: Carson returned to campus a year ago to deliver a prestigious lecture to a standing-room audience of more than 400 people.

“干得好,给她终身教职!”有人在网上讽刺道。2000年毕业于普林斯顿大学比较文学专业的作家埃兹拉·E·菲茨(Ezra E. Fitz)则感叹母校未能留住卡森。

But the university’s praise of Carson also attracted criticism, as social media users highlighted that Princeton had denied her tenure — a highly coveted continuous teaching position — in the 1980s.

“我真希望她当时能获得实至名归的终身教职,这样我就能在90年代上她的课了,”他在网上写道。“她哪怕教‘翻译电话本’我都去上,”菲茨在采访中补充道。

“Good job granting her tenure!” one person responded sarcastically on Ezra E. Fitz, an author who earned a bachelor’s degree in comparative literature from Princeton in 2000, lamented that his alma mater had not retained Carson.

校方官员周四拒绝就网上的批评或卡森离开教职一事发表评论。按照政策,普林斯顿大学不会讨论其终身教职评定流程。

“I wish she’d been granted a richly-deserved tenure so I could have taken a class of hers in the 90s,” he wrote on“She could teach ‘Translating the Phone Book’ and I’d have taken it,” Fitz added in an University officials on Thursday declined to comment on the criticism online or Carson’s departure from the faculty. Princeton, as a policy, does not discuss its tenure process.