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, […]
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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
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
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
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
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
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
Congratulations to Marta Cerreti for winning this year’s prize!
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 […]