The five-week class, Semitic Sisters, is funded by the university’s Faculty Dialogue Innovation Fund, designed to promote dialogue across differences. Read the article by Aleyna Rentz in the HUB here.
News & Announcements Archive
Save the Dates: Announcing the 2026 Spring Lecture Series
We are excited to share the schedule for the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures Spring 2026 Lecture Series with our colleagues and friends. Please save the dates for these […]
Prof. Christiane Frey Wins MLA Prize
Congratulations to Professor Christiane Frey for winning the MLA Prize for an Edited Collection! The prize was awarded to Professor Frey along with her co-editor Elizabeth Brogden for the volume Milieus of Minutiae: Contextualizing the Small […]
Prof. Gisela Heffes Awarded for Essay Collection
From Literal’s website: “It is an honor for Literal to announce this year’s winners and celebrate with the awardees this recognition of literary merit: the First Prize went to Daniel […]
Prof. Gosetti-Ferencei speaks before the United Nations
Professor Gosetti-Ferencei recently spoke at the United Nations in Geneva on ‘Creativity and Culture in the Context of AI,’ for a panel on the impact of AI on creative sectors, […]
Mack Zalin presents lecture “From Heidelberg to Baltimore”
Dr. Mackenzie (Mack) Zalin, Librarian for Classics, Comparative Thought and Literature, Jewish Studies, and Modern Languages and Literatures in the Sheridan Libraries at Johns Hopkins University, presented a lecture on […]
Guest Lecture by Catriona MacLeod (U Chicago)
Blurred Edges: Interactions Between the Blot and the Cut and Experimental Romantic Paper Practices Catriona MacLeod is the Frank Curtis Springer and Gertrude Melcher Springer Professor in the Department of Germanic […]
Announcing a New Faculty Book: Jacob Haubenreich
Congratulations to Prof. Jacob Haubenreich on the publication of his book Textual Entanglements: Handke, Bernhard, Rilke, and the Materiality of Literature (Cornell UP, 2025)! The book thoroughly revises how we […]
Announcing our Fall Lecture Series
Please join us this semester for our Fall Lecture Series. Dates below. Times and locations to be shared on our calendar. Department of Modern Languages & Literatures Fall 2025 Lecture Series Sept. 9thAnna […]
Introducing new faculty, Dr. Ellen Nagasawa
Dr. Ellen Nagasawa is an academic specializing in applied linguistics, with over a decade of experience teaching and researching Portuguese as an Additional Language. She earned her Ph.D. in Applied […]