Department Head Ken Calhoon gave a work-in-progress talk titled “Painting the Devil on the Wall: Romanticism and Early German Film” on January 24th, 2018. This event was part of the faculty and graduate student colloquium sponsored by the Department of German and Scandinavian.

The Fall Nomad Speaker Event was held on November 14, in 111 Lillis. The Nomad theme this year is “Outlaw.” Prof. Katya Hokanson spoke on “Outlaws of the Spirit: The Charismatic Virtue of Tolstoy, Blavatsky, and Gandhi,” and PhD candidate Baran Germen will speak on ...

Comparative Literature doctoral candidate Susi Gómez has received $1,500 from the Fund for Community Engaged Teaching. This amount—the largest award possible through the fund—is in support of her course Latina Literature and Community, which she taught for Comparative Literature in Fall 2017. ...

Comparative Literature doctoral student Bess Myers has just placed an article for publication in Arethusa, a distinguished journal in classics edited out of SUNY Buffalo. The essay is titled “’One, Two, Three’: Narrative Circles in Plato’s Timaeus.” Bess has also been awarded the ...

Doctoral Student Robin Okumu is the recipient of the Kimble First-Year Teaching Award. Named in honor of professor emeritus Dan Kimble, the award is designed to recognize outstanding teaching performance and reflective practice by graduate employees in their first year of college-level classroom ...

Doctoral student Anna-Lisa Baumeister has published the following book chapter: “French Women Become, German Women Are Made? Simone de Beauvoir, Alice Schwarzer, Translation and Quotation.” ‘On Ne Naît Pas Femme : On Le Devient’ : The Life of a Sentence. Bonnie Mann and Martina Ferrari, ...

You are cordially invited to attend the 2017 Undergraduate Nomad Conference. The Nomad Mentorship Program’s “Chaos” year has come to fruition. Since Fall term, undergraduate participants have worked one-on-one with mentors to develop and present their own research. The conference ...

The Spring Nomad Speaker Event was held on Tues. April 11 at 5:30 p.m. in Knight Library, Studio A. Professor Steven T. Brown spoke on “Sonic Territories in Horror Cinema” and Ph.D. candidate Ying Xiong spoke on “Half Dust, Half Deity, Alike Unfit to Sink or Soar: Lu Xun’s Banished ...

Professor Marjorie Perloff, one of the leading voices in theories of modernism, postmodernism and poetics, will be visiting Campus in May to reflect on the theme of Metapoetics and Myth. Perloff is the Sadie Dernham Patek Professor of Humanities, Emerita, at Stanford University. Monday, May 8, 4 ...

Michael Allan is on sabbatical and is currently based in Berlin and Marburg, with events in Norway, Holland and Scotland in the coming months. He will also be conducting research at the Lumière Archive in Lyon, France, at the beginning of May. In Berlin, he has presented on his recent book In The ...

Professor Steven T. Brown is currently a Faculty Fellow at the Oregon Humanities Center, where he is putting the finishing touches on his new book, Resonant Evil: Studies in Asian Horror Cinema, forthcoming with Palgrave Macmillan. Part of Brown’s project appeared in essay-form as “Ambient ...

Department Head Kenneth Calhoon spoke recently at the University of Minnesota. His talk was titled “About-Face: Erich Auerbach and the Physiognomy of Character.” Click here to see the poster.