On April 24, 2023, Elif Batuman, adjunct associate professor of English, was awarded the 2023-2024 Rome Prize at the Arthur and Janet C. Ross Rome Prize Ceremony, held in the Great Hall at Cooper Union in New York. Batuman was recognized for her outstanding work in literature. The Rome Prize is awarded annually by the American Academy in Rome to American artists and scholars for research and work in the arts and humanities. This year 36 awardees were selected from 988 applications, each of whom will receive a stipend, workspace, and room and board at the Academy’s 11-acre campus on the Janiculum Hill in Rome. The CEO of the American Academy in Rome, Mark Robbins, has praised Batuman and the other recipients, saying “this class of Rome Prize winners once again includes some of America’s most gifted scholars and artists.”