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Doreen Densky has been awarded a Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion fellowship for the 2012-2013 academic year.  Her dissertation is on “Literary Advocates: The Rhetoric and Poetics of Speaking-for in Franz Kafka.”

Assistant Professors Nadia Altschul and Katrin Pahl have newly-published books:

Altschul's Geographies of Philological Knowledge examines the relationship between medievalism and colonialism in the nineteenth-century Hispanic American context through the striking case of the Creole Andrés Bello (1781–1865), a Venezuelan grammarian, editor, legal scholar, and politician, and his lifelong philological work on the medieval heroic narrative that would later become Spain’s national epic, the Poem of the Cid.

Pahl's Tropes of Transport offers a fresh analysis of Hegel’s work that becomes an important resource for her cutting-edge theory of emotionality. If it is usually assumed that the sincerity of emotions and the force of affects depend on their immediacy, Pahl explores the extent to which mediation—and therefore a certain degree of manipulation but also of sympathy—is constitutive of emotionality.

Undergraduate students interested in applying for the Max Kade Center Summer Travel Grant can download the application from our site.  Click here.

Upcoming Lectures and Events

March 29
Juliette Cherbuliez
The Future of Catastrophe: On Denouement in Tragedy

April 5
Valentina Denzel
Who is Afraid of the Woman Warrior?  Christian and Pagan Viragos in French and Italian Epics (17th and 18th Centuries)

April 10
Johan Oosterman
A Copy as Memorial.  Why Monastic Scribes Signed the Books they Made

April 12-20
Saverio Bellomo
A series of four lectures on Dante tra filologia e critica

April 12
Susan Bernstein
Flowering Lyric

April 16
Geoffroy Huard

La Solidaridad Homófila Franco-Española

April 19
Allan Stoekl
Urban Ecology: Jean Rolin

April 26
Alessandro Polcri
Luigi Pulci: Between Politics and Allegory in Medici Florence

For more information on our lectures, including times and locations, please view our events calendar.

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