The 2024 French issue of MLN invites original contributions, in English or in French, to a special issue entitled “Passage to the Nineteenth Century” edited by Daniel Desormeaux in collaboration […]
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Reflexiones Cervantinas: William Egginton y la teatralidad de la ficción en la era de la posverdad
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), […]
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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 […]
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Ökopoetiken: Literarische Umwelten
A digital transatlantic workshop | JHU and RTWH Aachen | 22.–23. September 2023
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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 […]
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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 / […]
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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 […]
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Charles Singleton Graduate Student Essay Prize
Congratulations to Marta Cerreti for winning this year’s prize!
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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 […]