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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German Program: News
German Program:
News
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:
News
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:
News
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:
News
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:
News
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 […]
French Program:
News
Examining the Haitian Revolution
According to Daniel Desormeaux, William D. and Robin Mayer Professor, secrecy is a key part of Haitian history. He has been interested in the political history of secrets, especially secrets surrounding the Haitian Revolution, for decades. Read about his current research in the Spring 2022 issue of Arts & Science Magazine.
German Program:
News
The Conductor (2021)
Professor Bernadette Wegenstein‘s feature-length documentary The Conductor (2021) opened this winter to critical acclaim in a half-dozen North American cities, from New York to San Francisco. Wegenstein’s glowing portrait of […]
Italian Program:
News
Global Ecologies: “The Fiction of Colorblind Italy”
“The Fiction of Colorblind Italy and Orio Vergani’s Io, povero negro (1928)” A lecture by Professor Stephanie Malia Hom (Assistant Professor of Transnational Italian Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara). […]
Hebrew and Yiddish Program:
News
Hebrew Language, Spring 2022
Hebrew language will be offered on three levels in the spring semester, beginner, intermediate, and advanced. All classes are multimodal, interactive and intercultural, offering students the opportunity to hone their […]