Christine Lehleiter, Associate Professor of German at the University of Toronto, focuses on 18th– and 19th-century German literary and scientific cultures, and her books include Romanticism, Origins, and the History of […]
The Dean’s Teaching Fellowship provides graduate students an opportunity to grow as educators and scholars by allowing them to propose, design, and offer an undergraduate seminar course. Silvia Raimondi, a […]
We would like to congratulate Holly Nelson (’23), who has won the 2023 Dante Society of America’s “Dante Prize” for her essay “Absolving Matelda: Engaging with Ecofeminism in Dante’s Purgatorio.” […]
December 5 at 5:30 pm until 7:30 pm “Visualizing Human and Ecological Loss in Latin America” (Gisela Heffes, Modern Languages and Literatures); “Beeing and Time: Toward a Literary Entomology” (Christiane Frey, Modern Languages and Literatures); […]
The 2024 French issue of MLN invites original contributions, in English or in French, to a special issue entitled “Passage to the Nineteenth Century” edited by Daniel Desormeaux in collaboration […]
Prof William Egginton, Decker Professor in the Humanities and director of the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute at Johns Hopkins University, weighs theatricality, fictionality, literary criticism, continental philosophy, psychoanalysis and ethics, […]
This award is for outstanding essays in Spanish. The award comprises: Eligibility Application Process To apply for the award, please submit the following documents by April 1st (spring graduation), and November 1st (fall graduation), […]
In the late nineteenth century, Spain’s most prominent writers – Juan Valera, Leopoldo Alas, and Benito Pérez Galdós – made blood a crucial feature of their fiction. In her talk, Julia Chang […]
A digital transatlantic workshop | JHU and RTWH Aachen | 22.–23. September 2023
Erica Weitzman (PhD, Comparative Literature, NYU, 2012) is Associate Professor of German at Northwestern University. She is the author of Irony’s Antics: Walser, Kafka, Roth, and the German Comic Tradition (Northwestern […]