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Severn Teakle Wallis Award

Severn Teakle Wallis Award

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), […]


Blood Novels: Gender, Caste, and Race in Spanish Realism

Blood Novels: Gender, Caste, and Race in Spanish Realism

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 […]


JHU hosts Nineteenth-Century French Studies Conference

Registration is open for the 48th Annual Nineteenth-Century French Studies (NCSF) conference, which will be held in Baltimore from November 9-11, 2023. The theme of the conference is Passages / […]


Dante & Tarot

Dante & Tarot

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 […]


PhD student Brad Harmon selected for research fellowship

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 […]