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Prof. Christiane Frey Wins MLA Prize

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Congratulations to Professor Christiane Frey for winning the MLA Prize for an Edited Collection! The prize was awarded to Professor Frey along with her co-editor Elizabeth Brogden for the volume Milieus of Minutiae: Contextualizing the Small […]


Prof. Gisela Heffes Awarded for Essay Collection

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From Literal’s website: “It is an honor for Literal to announce this year’s winners and celebrate with the awardees this recognition of literary merit: the First Prize went to Daniel […]


Announcing a New Faculty Book: Jacob Haubenreich

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Congratulations to Prof. Jacob Haubenreich on the publication of his book Textual Entanglements: Handke, Bernhard, Rilke, and the Materiality of Literature (Cornell UP, 2025)! The book thoroughly revises how we […]


Announcing our Fall Lecture Series

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Please join us this semester for our Fall Lecture Series. Dates below. Times and locations to be shared on our calendar. Department of Modern Languages & Literatures Fall 2025 Lecture Series Sept. 9thAnna […]


Le Pont des arts: Writer in Residence Maylis de Kerangal

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The program in French at Johns Hopkins is pleased to announce that with the generous assistance of the French Embassy in the United States, the Centre Louis Marin will host […]


MLL PhD Candidate Brad Harmon Awarded NEA Translation Fellowship

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The National Endowment for the Arts announced that MLL PhD candidate Brad Harmon is one of 22 translators selected to receive a Literature Translation Fellowship. This fellowship will support the translation […]


Talk by Prof. Hélène Merlin-Kajman

The Centre Louis Marin and the program in French are pleased to host Prof. Hélène Merlin-Kajman of Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3/Institut universitaire de France for a talk in French […]