Faculty Research in the News

Alexandra Lossada works on immigration, citizenship, and language in contemporary American ethnic literatures, especially in Latinx and Chicanx writing. Her current manuscript project, tentatively entitled The Interpreter of Crimmigration and Detention, reevaluates the figure and the role of the interpreter in post-9/11 literary works that depict detention, deportation, and/or family separation via the legal apparatus of crimmigration, or the intersection of criminal law with immigration law. Her work has recently been awarded an American Council of Learned Societies...

Hannes Bajohr is a Professor in the Department of German. Dr. Bajohr’s primary areas of focus include digital writing and literature, German philosophy of the 20th century, and political theory. He received the N. Katherine Hayles Award for Criticism of Electronic Literature by the Electronic Literature Organization in 2024. Dr. Bajohr studied philosophy, German literature, and modern history at Humboldt University of Berlin, and received his PhD from Columbia University.

“What they were really touching was each other,” says French Professor Henry Ravenhall. “The book was just a conduit for whatever kind of social desire was needed to be expressed within that group.”

As a specialist in medieval French literature, Henry Ravenhall has examined hundreds of manuscripts from the Middle Ages. Every time he does, he sits quietly in a special library viewing room and gingerly turns each page with clean, dry hands, careful not to tear or otherwise harm these precious artifacts.

“When you look closely at the surface itself, you see patterns of...

The division is proud to announce that Leslie V. Kurke, professor of ancient Greek and Roman studies and comparative literature, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a prestigious honor that recognizes exceptional scholars, artists, and leaders across diverse fields.

Since its founding in 1780, the American Academy has honored excellence and convened leaders from various disciplines to address the nation’s challenges and advance the “interest, honor, dignity, and happiness of a free, independent, and virtuous people.” The Academy’s newest members, including...