# Tina Post won the National Book Critics’ Award for Deadpan!
**Source**: https://afamstudies.yale.edu/news/tina-post-won-national-book-critics-award-deadpan
**Parent**: https://afamstudies.yale.edu/news/2024-03
**[Tina Post](https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fenglish.uchicago.edu%2Fpeople%2Ftina-post&data=05%7C02%7Cvanessa.epps%40yale.edu%7Cf143071584834bc4a74408dc4a8a6f01%7Cdd8cbebb21394df8b4114e3e87abeb5c%7C0%7C0%7C638467205644577312%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=LJ%2B7%2BYs0TlgrdaYsg4JP1QDI4hG7kz%2BRYcEIzbaDmkQ%3D&reserved=0)**, alumna of our graduate program in American Studies and African American Studies and currently Assistant Professor of English at the University of Chicago, has won the 2023 National Book Critics Award for Criticism for her book *[Deadpan: The Aesthetics of Black Inexpression](https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbookshop.org%2Fp%2Fbooks%2Fdeadpan-the-aesthetics-of-black-inexpression-tina-post%2F18395817%3Fean%3D9781479811212&data=05%7C02%7Cvanessa.epps%40yale.edu%7Cf143071584834bc4a74408dc4a8a6f01%7Cdd8cbebb21394df8b4114e3e87abeb5c%7C0%7C0%7C638467205644586736%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=GkJMri%2BKmivjhaOQZS%2B9RHzis8UfZ0Pg5%2F8fBJ2hBMw%3D&reserved=0)*(NYU Press, 2023)!! You can see the official announcement [here](https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flithub.com%2Fhere-are-the-winners-of-this-years-national-book-critics-circle-awards-3%2F&data=05%7C02%7Cvanessa.epps%40yale.edu%7Cf143071584834bc4a74408dc4a8a6f01%7Cdd8cbebb21394df8b4114e3e87abeb5c%7C0%7C0%7C638467205644594446%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=To2dSj%2BXkYOFKatulHTk0HR03cC%2Flfj97O3aadwChjQ%3D&reserved=0).
Warmest congratulations to Tina, and to her advisors and mentors here at Yale and beyond, on this much-deserved recognition.
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Monday, March 25, 2024