In Philology of the FleshHamilton investigates a range of poetic enterprises and theoretical reflections that engage in incarnational metaphors of language, from the fifteenth-century humanism of Lorenzo Valla to the poetry of Emily Dickinson, from Immanuel Kant and Johann Georg Hamann to Friedrich Nietzsche, Franz Kafka, and Paul Celan, tracing an insistence that invites us to rethink our relation to the concrete languages in which we think and live. ...
Warmest congratulations to the 26 students who have been awarded fellowships and internships through the department’s Work Abroad program this year, with special thanks to the department's Work Abroad Program Officer, Ruth Sondermann, for making all this possible: Anna Biggs (OCS-funded research at Universität Hamburg); Haydn Bradstreet (DAAD/RISE internship, Düsseldorf Universität); Emily Brother (OCS-funded internship, Freie Universität Berlin); Julia Bunte-Mein (Salzburg Global Seminar); Yi Chen (RISE fellowship)... Read more about Twenty Six Fellowships and Internships Abroad for Summer 2018
This is the very first comprehensive study on the late medieval text transmitting the Life ("Vita") of the 13th-century mystic, Christina von Hane. Adopting a multi-perspective approach, the first part of the study considers the handwritten manuscript while also discussing performative aspects of this mystic text. The second part of the study offers a new edition of the Vita.
A field report on the Department's Summer Program in Scandinavia directed by Stephen Mitchell in collaboration with Aarhus University. Click here for the piece published in the Harvard Gazette.
Lisa Parkes is the 2016 recipient of the Massachusetts German Educator of the Year Award from the Massachusetts Foreign Language Association in recognition of her exceptional accomplishments in language pedagogy.
Each year, the Modern Humanities Research Association chooses as President a scholar of international repute. The association has announced Professor Judith Ryan as President for 2017. She will deliver a keynote address at their October 2017 conference.
Professor Hamilton's "Repetitio Sentiarum, Repetitio Verborum: Kant, Hamann, and the Implications of Citation" has been awarded the 2015 Max Kade Prize for Best Article in The German Quarterly.
We are delighted to welcome Dr. Agnes Broomé as our new Preceptor in Scandinavian Studies. Agnes comes to Harvard from University College London, where she recently completed her PhD with a dissertation on translations and the British book market. In addition to...