Special Events

A Toast to Research

February 27, 4:00-5:15 in UH 1501

FACULTY BOOK SHOWCASE

Krishni Burns (Classics and Mediterranean Studies): Bringing their Mother Home: Roman Multiculturalism and the Mother of the Gods (U of Michigan Press, 2025)

Young Kim (Classics and Mediterranean Studies): Reimagining Classics, the Classroom, and Community with Luis Alfaro, edited by Young Richard Kim (Routledge, 2026).

3-MINUTE DISSERTATION PRESENTATIONS

Patrick Cook-White (Germanic Studies): “The Economic Functions of the Literary Gypsy”

Karina Duncker–Hoffmann (Germanic Studies): “Managing Feelings: Emotional Labor and the Hausfreund in Nineteenth-Century Realism”

Erin Ritchie (Germanic Studies): “Corporeal Excess: The Minor Agencies of Non-Normative Bodies"

Charlie Smith (Polish, Russian, and Lithuanian Studies): “The Socialist-Surrealism of Andrei Platonov”

Anna Torres Mallma (Hispanic and Italian Studies): “Tracing Dystopian Walking in Contemporary Latin American Narratives”

Jess Ward (Hispanic and Italian Studies): "Third Language Acquisition in Heritage Speakers Across Morphosyntactic and Phonological Domains"