Katherine Budinger, a sophomore majoring in Writing Seminars and English, is currently conducting a research project connecting Dante Alighieri’s narrative poem The Divine Comedy with tarot card meaning and symbolism. In an […]
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PhD student Brad Harmon selected for research fellowship
Brad Harmon has been awarded a year-long fellowship from the American Scandinavian Foundation. Brad will spend the 2023/2024 academic year in Stockholm at Södertörn University, where he will conduct research […]
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German Grad Students Embark on Ambitious Summer Plans
With funding from the Max Kade Center and other resources, German graduate students will head this summer to the: Congratulations to the students for proposing such fascinating projects!
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Languages Night – Hebrew & Yiddish Tabling
This spring Hebrew and Yiddish graduate students tabled for undergraduate course registration for Fall 2023 in the Gilman Atrium. The outreach included reading stories, playing games and having conversations with […]
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Modern Hebrew and Biblical Hebrew Scripts and Calligraphy Art Workshop
The Hebrew and Yiddish program held an event as a collaboration between Near Eastern Studies and Modern Languages and Literatures. The event was to bring together students from both Biblical […]
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Samuel J. Spinner To Receive MLA Scaglione Prize for Studies in Germanic Languages and Literatures
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 […]
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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 […]