De Robertis named Baldwin-Emerson Fellow and PEN award finalist

Creative Writing Associate Professor Carolina De Robertis is one of 10 Baldwin-Emerson Fellows selected to develop oral histories for Jacqueline Woodson’s new project, “I See My Light Shining: Oral Histories of Our Elders.” Columbia University has partnered with the Emerson Collective and Baldwin for the Arts on this project. De Robertis and each of the other fellows will conduct about 30 oral history interviews with people in various regions of the country over the next year.

De Robertis’ novel “The President and the Frog” (Knopf, 2021) was a finalist for the 2022 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award.