安妮·卡森获奖，普林斯顿的祝贺却引来嘲讽

近日，《纽约时报》（The New York Times）的一篇报道（作者 Neil Vigdor，）称，加拿大诗人、散文家安妮·卡森（Anne Carson）荣获诺贝尔文学奖。然而，普林斯顿大学在社交媒体发帖祝贺她时，却引发了网友的群嘲。 周四，安妮·卡森荣获诺贝尔文学奖。然而，她在20世纪80年代于普林斯顿大学任教期间，曾遭校方拒绝授予终身教职。这段往事被社交媒体用户翻出，对大学发布的祝贺信息冷嘲热讽。 要理解这篇文章的讽刺意味，必须了解美国大学的Tenure-track（终身教职轨）制度。在美国高校，教授如果在规定年限内（通常是6-7年）无法获得“Tenure”（终身教职），就必须离开学校（即“非升即走”）。终身教职意味着极高的学术自由和职业保障。 上世纪80年代，卡森在普林斯顿大学任教，但被拒绝授予终身教职（denied tenure），导致她离开普林斯顿。如今她获得了诺贝尔奖，普林斯顿却发帖蹭热度，因此网友嘲讽道：“Good job granting her tenure!”（干得漂亮，当初给了她终身教职！——极度反讽）。

Anne Carson Won a Nobel Prize, but Princeton Can't Win in Praising Her 安妮·卡森获得诺贝尔奖，但普林斯顿在赞美她时却颜面尽失。（注："Can't Win" 是双关语，指怎么做都不讨好、里外不是人） Meet the Nobel laureate who got away: Anne Carson. 来认识一下这位错失的诺贝尔奖得主：安妮·卡森。 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. 加拿大诗人、散文家卡森于周四获得诺贝尔文学奖后不久，普林斯顿大学在社交媒体上发帖称赞了她，并指出她曾在该校担任古典学教授。该校古典学系也在周四在其网站上向卡森表示了祝贺。 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. 该大学还欢迎她回归：一年前，卡森回到校园发表了一场享有盛誉的演讲，现场站无虚席，听众超过400人。 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. 但该大学对卡森的赞扬也招致了批评，因为社交媒体用户强调，普林斯顿曾在20世纪80年代拒绝授予她终身教职——这是一个令人梦寐以求的连续教学职位。 "Good job granting her tenure!" one person responded sarcastically on Facebook. “干得漂亮，当初给了她终身教职！”一个人在Facebook上讽刺地回复道。 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. 以斯拉·E·菲茨是一位作家，他于2000年在普林斯顿获得了比较文学学士学位。他对母校未能留住卡森感到遗憾。 "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 Facebook. "She could teach 'Translating the Phone Book' and I'd have taken it," Fitz added in an email. “我希望她当时能被授予她完全配得上的终身教职，这样我就能在90年代上她的课了，”他在Facebook上写道。“就算她教‘翻译电话簿’，我也会去上的，”菲茨在一封电子邮件中补充道。 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. Carson's agent, Nicole Aragi, did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Thursday. 大学官员周四拒绝就网上的批评或卡森离开教职一事置评。按照政策，普林斯顿不讨论其终身教职的评审过程。卡森的经纪人妮可·阿拉吉周四没有立即回应置评请求。 In 2014, the writer Roy Scranton wrote in Contemporary Literature, a scholarly journal, that Princeton had denied tenure to Carson in the mid-1980s. She had previously taught at the University of Calgary. After leaving Princeton, she spent a year at Emory University before moving to McGill University, he wrote. 2014年，作家罗伊·斯克兰顿在学术期刊《当代文学》上写道，普林斯顿在20世纪80年代中期拒绝了卡森的终身教职。她此前曾在卡尔加里大学任教。他写道，离开普林斯顿后，她在埃默里大学待了一年，然后搬到了麦吉尔大学。 There did not seem to be any signs of hard feelings last fall when Princeton invited Carson to deliver the Robert Fagles Lecture for Classics in the Contemporary Arts and held a reception in her honor. 去年秋天，普林斯顿邀请卡森发表“罗伯特·法格尔斯当代艺术古典学讲座”，并为她举行了招待会，当时似乎没有任何芥蒂的迹象。 Carson additionally taught a special session of an undergraduate humanities course, according to a Princeton University Humanities Council summary of the event. An illustration of Carson at the lecture also appeared on the cover of a classics department newsletter that was published over the summer. 根据普林斯顿大学人文学科委员会的总结，卡森还额外教授了一节本科人文学科课程的特别课程。夏季出版的古典学系通讯封面也出现了卡森在讲座上的插图。 The novelist Joyce Carol Oates, a retired professor of the humanities at Princeton who has been nominated multiple times for the Nobel Prize in Literature, praised Carson's writing as "risky & original" in a social media post on Thursday. 小说家乔伊斯·卡罗尔·欧茨是普林斯顿大学退休的人文学科教授，曾多次获得诺贝尔文学奖提名。她在周四的社交媒体帖子中称赞卡森的作品“充满风险且具有原创性”。 "We'd met just once decades ago at Princeton where Anne Carson was an instructor in the Classics Dept. & I was — hypothetically — just a 'visitor' for one year in Creative Writing," she wrote on X. "Not predictable that Anne would move on, & on, & on to numerous universities & I would remain at Princeton." “几十年前我们在普林斯顿只见过一次，当时安妮·卡森是古典学系的讲师，而我——假设性地——只是创意写作专业为期一年的‘访问学者’，”她在X上写道。“无法预测安妮会辗转多所大学，而我会留在普林斯顿。” Oates suggested that for some writers, the requirements of academic tenure were a "damper on their freedom," including "teaching conventional courses semester after semester." 欧茨认为，对一些作家来说，学术终身教职的要求是“对他们自由的抑制”，包括“一个学期又一个学期地教授常规课程”。 "I do not know the circumstances of Anne Carson's career — at all," she wrote, "but would guess that she has been warmly welcomed at many colleges & universities." “我完全不了解安妮·卡森职业生涯的具体情况，”她写道，“但我猜她在许多学院和大学都受到了热烈欢迎。”