News and Events
Congratulations to...
...Professor Chris Celenza on his nomination as Director of the American Academy in Rome beginning July 2010.
and
...our recipients of the Dean's Teaching Fellowship for the 2010-2011 Academic Year:
Caroline Domenghino
"Between Literature and Science: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"
Andreea Marculescu
"Performing Madness: from Tristan to King Lear"
Eleonore Veillet
"Dreaming of Al-Andalus: Peace and Conflict in Contemporary Literature"
Alumni News
Nicolás Wey-Gómez has won the Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize for an outstanding book published in English or Spanish in the field of Latin American and Spanish literatures and cultures awarded by the MLA. His book is entitled Tropics of Empire: Why Columbus Sailed South to the Indies. Nicolás earned his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1995.
Upcoming Lectures
Gregory Lambert, Syracuse University
The Baroque Tsunami
Daniel Javitch, NYU
Aristotle's Poetics and Early Modern Thinking about Poetry and Poetic Genres
Luis Aviles, University of California Irvine
Clever Commanders and the Uncertainty of Ethics in Cervantes
For more information on our lectures, including times and locations, please view our events calendar.
Current Projects
The graduate students of the French section are organizing a conference to take place in April 2010. For information about the conference, including the Call For Papers, please click here.
Employment Opportunity
Visiting Assistant Professor - Italian
The Department of German and Romance Languages and Literatures seeks to appoint a scholar in premodern or early modern Italian studies (specialty open) for a three-year term appointment starting July 1, 2010, at the rank of Visiting Assistant Professor. PhD preferred, advanced ABD considered. Applicants should submit a cover letter, detailed CV, and a writing sample (dissertation chapter or published article) online. Applicants must also provide the names and email addresses of three referees when submitting their application. Application deadline is March 1, 2010. Johns Hopkins University is an AA/EOE employer.
Instructions for submitting the online application:
· Documents must be uploaded in .doc, .pdf, .rtf, or .txt format. Document files should be labeled with the applicant’s last name and the document type (example: Smith CV, Doe cover letter).
· Applicants must supply the names and email addresses of three referees. These referees will be contacted by email after the application has been processed by our office (usually within one business day of the submission of the application). Referees will be provided with a link to use to upload their letter of reference directly to your application. Letters of recommendation are due by the application deadline.
· Applicants are required to submit one writing sample, but may submit up to three (only one of which may be a dissertation chapter).
· Hard copy of the required materials will not be accepted in lieu of an online submission.
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