Professor Christopher Wood gives the talk "The Crime of Passion," on Dürer's drawing "The Death of Orpheus," homosexuality in the Renaissance, and Aby Warburg's pathos formula.
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Professor Ian Fleishman wins NeMLA Book Award
July 29, 2015The Northeast Modern Language Association has selected Ian Fleishman's first book manuscript, An Aesthetics of Injury: The Narrative Wound from Baudelaire to Tarantino, as the winner of their 2015 Book Prize.
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Interview with Professor Kathryn Hellerstein
July 24, 2015In the "Women in Translation" issue of TranscUlturAl: A Journal of Translation and Cultural Studies, Penn German Ph.D. student Didem Uca interviews Dr. Kathryn Hellerstein, Penn Professor of Yiddish, on her career as a scholar-poet-translator.
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Professor Kathryn Hellerstein has been awarded two grants for her 2015-2016 sabbatical
July 24, 2015The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives has granted her The Joseph and Eva R.
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Catriona MacLeod's Fugitive Objects wins 2014 Jean-Pierre Barricelli Prize
March 30, 2015Catriona MacLeod's book, Fugitive Objects: Sculpture and Literature in the German Nineteenth Century, has won the 2014 Jean-Pierre Barricelli Prize for the year's best book in Romanticism.
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Catriona MacLeod appointed Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor of German
February 4, 2015Catriona MacLeod has been appointed Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor of German.
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Gift of Historic German-American Newspapers
January 30, 2015The Penn Libraries’ historic collection of research material on German immigrants to Pennsylvania recently grew to include a set of nine German-language newspapers published in Philadelphia at the turn of the twentieth century.
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Penn Professor Kathryn Hellerstein Wins National Jewish Book Award
January 28, 2015The Jewish Book Council has named University of Pennsylvania professor Kathryn Hellerstein recipient of the 2014