The Modern Language Association of America today announced its sixth annual Matei Calinescu Prize for a distinguished work of scholarship in twentieth- or twentieth-first-century literature and thought. The winner is […]
Lisa Siraganian’s latest book, Modernism and the Meaning of Corporate Persons (Oxford University Press, 2020) has been awarded the MSA Book Prize. Each year, the Modernist Studies Association seeks nominations for its […]
Professor Yi-Ping Ong has been selected by the Johns Hopkins Diversity Leadership Council to receive a 2021 Diversity Recognition Award. This award acknowledges outstanding accomplishments of faculty, staff, students, and […]
The Graduate Students of the Department of Comparative Thought and Literature at Johns Hopkins University are proud to announce their biennial conference on February 18 and 19, 2022. We are […]
Professor Anne Eakin Moss’s book Only Among Women: Philosophies of Community in the Russian and Soviet Imagination, 1860-1940 (Northwestern University Press, 2019) has been shortlisted for the Best First Book Award […]
Doctoral candidate Jacob Levi has been named a winner of the 2020 Translation Prize of the French-American Society for his co-translation of Marc Crépon’s Murderous Consent: On the Accomodation of Violent Death, published by […]
Each year, the GRO solicits nominations from graduate students for members of the Hopkins community who have “demonstrated outstanding service” on behalf of graduate students on the Homewood campus. This […]
Professor Anne Eakin Moss’s team has been chosen to receive a 2019 Johns Hopkins Discovery Award for their proposal, “Invitation to the Masses: The Russian and Iranian Revolutions and their […]
Richard Macksey, co-founder of the Humanities Center, passed away in July. Professor Emeritus Neil Hertz reflects on the life of his former colleague.
Professor Richard (“Dick”) Macksey, Professor Emeritus in the Humanities, died on July 22, 2019, at an assisted living facility in Baltimore County, following complications from an illness. He was 87. Co-founder […]