The Modern Language Association of America has announced its fifteenth Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Germanic Languages and Literatures, to be awarded in January 2023 to Zelda […]
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Graduate Student Almut Slizyk Delivers Three Papers Based on Archival Work
As part of the research colloquium at the German Literature Archive in Marbach, Almut Slizyk gave a talk on the Jewish poet and philosopher Margarete Susman. Her talk drew on […]
Italian Program:
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Wandering Women: Urban Ecologies of Italian Feminist Filmmaking
The Italian section is delighted to announce that Professor Laura Di Bianco’s book “Wandering Women: Urban Ecologies of Italian Feminist Filmmaking” (Indiana University Press, December 2022) is now available for […]
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Graduate Student Käthe Erichsen Delivers a Talk on Exilic Writing
Congratulations to graduate student Käthe Erichsen for delivering a paper at the Women in Exile conference hosted by the International Feuchtwanger Society and the University of Southern California. The title […]
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Graduate Student Luke Beller Delivers Paper at Deutscher Germanistenverband
Congratulations to graduate student Luke Beller who delivered a paper at this year’s meeting of the Deutscher Germanistenverband at the University of Paderborn. His contribution was entitled “Zwischen naivem Naturwesen und […]
Hebrew and Yiddish Program:
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PhD in Jewish Languages and Literatures Applications
The course of study offers training in Hebrew and Yiddish language, literature, and culture in its many transnational iterations and focuses on the modern period while attending to the long […]
German Program:
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Congratulations to recent graduates of the German Program
Congratulations to recent graduates Elisa Santucci, Maya Nitis, and Jason Yonover, who are now working at Johns Hopkins University, Morgan State University, and Princeton University. After successfully defending his dissertation […]
Italian Program:
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MLN new Issue “Dante at 700: Singleton Revisited”
In 1986, Giuseppe Mazzotta, addressing the legacy of the great Dante scholar Charles Southward Singleton, argued that the fairest way to confront the power of Singleton’s work was to avoid […]
Italian Program:
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Welcome to Prof. Arielle Saiber
A warm welcome to Professor Arielle Saiber, new Head of the Italian section and Director of Italian Graduate Studies. Saiber received her Ph.D. in Italian Literature at Yale University. She […]
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2021-2022 in the Portuguese Program
Please enjoy the Johns Hopkins University’s Portuguese Program 2021-2022 newsletter. The newsletter includes student stories, program highlights, and useful information from the last school year.