2018-05-24
- Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz, Assistant Professor of Religion, has published a new book titled Reciting the Goddess: Narratives of Place and the Making of Hinduism in Nepal (Oxford University Press).
This new work (out April 2) is the first critical study of the Svasthanivratakatha (SVK), one of Nepal’s best-known and most-heard/listened to narrative...
- 2018-05-24 - Two students in Professor François Proulx’s French cultural history course chose hands-on learning when the Department of French and Italian brought to the FLB a photo exhibit about the May 1968 French student and labor protests. Lauren Longfellow, a senior from Mahomet, Ill., helped Proulx with the set-up and take-down of the exhibit, entitled “Au cœur de Mai 68” (“At the Heart of May 68”),...
2018-05-24 - Antony Augoustakis, Professor of Classics, has co-edited (with Stacie Raucci of Union College) a new book titled “Epic Heroes on Screen” (Edinburgh University Press, 2018). This is the first collection to look at the most recent manifestations of the ancient hero on screen. It brings together an array of perspectives on twenty-first century cinematic representations of ancient world heroes...
2018-05-24 - Anke Pinkert, Associate Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures, is one of three recipients of an IPRH (Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities) New Horizons Summer Faculty Research Fellowship for 2018. Pinkert’s research project is titled, “Remembering 1989: Future Archives of Public Protest and Assembly.” Her areas of research include Modern German culture, literature, and...
2018-05-24 - Lilya Kaganovsky, Director and Professor of Comparative and World Literature, and Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, has published “The Voice of Technology: Soviet Cinema’s Transition to Sound, 1928-1935” (Indiana University Press, 2018). As cinema industries around the globe adjusted to the introduction of synch-sound technology, the Soviet Union was also shifting culturally,...