Margarita Saona’s book of short fiction, La ciudad en que no estás (Lima, 2021), has been nominated for the 2021 Luces Award in the short story category. This award is sponsored by El…
The Hungarian Academy of the Arts (Magyar Művészeti Akadémia) has recently published a translation of Stefan and Lucy Hejna Family Chair in Polish Language and Literature, Michał Markowski’s Anatomia ciekawości (The Anatomy of…
Lidia Aguilera Lora and Megan Marshall, both PhD students in Hispanic Linguistics, have been awarded the Provost’s Graduate Research Award. This annual “seed funding” competition helps students to develop stronger applications for funding…
Congratulations to Sonya Gupta, a senior majoring in Russian and biological sciences, on being a finalist for the Rhodes Scholarship, the oldest and one of the most prestigious international scholarships in the world!…
The Department of French and Francophone Studies is delighted to announce the winners of this year’s Marie-Odile Sweetser Prize for excellence in French Studies: David Degooyer, Laurie Liberius, and Leila Perez. The Sweetser…
Zach Ramon Fitzpatrick, Germanic Studies Ph.D. student, has published an essay entitled “The World(s) of Anna Suh: Race, Migration, and Ornamentalism in Bis zum Ende aller Tage (Until the End of Days, 1961).” The essay…
Krishni Burns, Lecturer of Latin, recently blogged about her new project Calliope’s Library: Books for Young Readers for the Society for Classical Studies. In the post, Burns details the project’s genesis as well…
Germanic Studies Ph.D. student Erin Gizewski has been elected to a 3-year term as graduate student representative to the executive board of the Austrian Studies Association.
Patrick Fortmann, Associate Professor of Germanic Studies, has recently published Kristallisationen von Liebe with Wilhelm Fink. Publishers Description: In the German context, the notion of romantic love, characterized by ambiguity, uncertainty, and elusiveness, emerges…
Julia Vaingurt, Associate Professor of Russian, was recognized by the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL) with the 2020 Award for Excellence in Post-Secondary Teaching. This major award…