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Reflexiones Cervantinas: William Egginton y la teatralidad de la ficción en la era de la posverdad

Reflexiones Cervantinas: William Egginton y la teatralidad de la ficción en la era de la posverdad

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, […]

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), […]

Beyond the Theologico-Political: Hannah Arendt and the Principle of Beginning

Beyond the Theologico-Political: Hannah Arendt and the Principle of Beginning

Presenter: Facundo Vega, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez   Description: What can and should be the promise of politics today? How does politics begin anew? In his talk, political philosopher Facundo Vega examines the strengths and limitations of Hannah […]

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 […]

Ökopoetiken: Literarische Umwelten

Ökopoetiken: Literarische Umwelten

A digital transatlantic workshop | JHU and RTWH Aachen | 22.–23. September 2023

Weitzman lecture: Body Shaming: Obscenity, Materiality, and the Ontology of German Realist Literature

Weitzman lecture: Body Shaming: Obscenity, Materiality, and the Ontology of German Realist Literature

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 […]

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 / […]

Samuel Zawacki Translator-in-residence at the Fondazione Ugo da Como, Summer 2023

Samuel Zawacki Translator-in-residence at the Fondazione Ugo da Como, Summer 2023

We’re excited to announce our fourth-year graduate student, Samuel Zawacki, has won the 2023 “Essays” Competition and will be a Translator-in-residence at the Fondazione Ugo da Como this summer! Sponsored […]

Charles Singleton Graduate Student Essay Prize

Charles Singleton Graduate Student Essay Prize

Congratulations to Marta Cerreti for winning this year’s prize!

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 […]