Congratulations to graduating senior Gabrielle Steinbrenner who was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to teach in Nordrhein-Westfalen during the 2025-2026 academic year.

Congratulations to Cecilia Barron ('24)

Congratulations to Kristina Mendicino on the publication of her new book, "Passive Voices: On the Subject of Phenomenology and Other Figures of Speech"

Congratulations to Gerhard Richter on the publication of his new book, "This Great Allegory: On World-Decay and World-Opening in the Work of Art"! 

Congratulations, Brehan!

Listen to Kevin McLaughlin and other guests on Melvyn Bragg's show "In Our Time" on BBC, discussing the work of Walter Benjamin (1892-1940).

Congratulations to Thomas Schestag on the publication of his new book, "erlaubt, entlaubt"!

Congratulations to Gerhard Richter on the publication of his newest monograph with Edinburgh University Press!

Congratulations to Ethan Franzblau ('21) who has received a 2021-22 Fulbright Austria Award. The award combines an English teaching assistantship with research and study. Ethan's research will engage with Austrian-Jewish identity in light of the recent change to the Austrian Nationality Act in 2019, which provides for citizenship for descendants of refugees and victims of the Holocaust.

Our colleague in History, Benjamin Hein, received a 2021 Salomon Faculty Research Award for his project, "The Migrant's Spirit: Industrial Revolution in the German Lands." The Salomon Award is given out annually to support exceptional faculty research projects. You can read more about the project on the 2021 Salomon Awardees page.

Emma Schneider ('22) received two UTRA awards to work with Kristina Mendicino this year: one in Summer 2020 to assist with the research project "Passive Voices (On the Subject of Phenomenology, and Other Figures of Speech)" and one in Fall 2021 to help develop a new class called "Prague Circles." Congratulations to Emma and Kristina on the awards!

Kristina Mendicino has been awarded a Faculty Fellowship at the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women for 2020-21. She will be participating in the Center's Research Seminar ("Narratives of Debt") led by Peter Szendy.

Gerhard Richter and Susan Bernstein have been awarded Faculty Fellowships at the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women for 2019-20. They will be participating in the Center's Research Seminar ("What is Critique?") led by the Center's director, Professor Suzanne Stewart-Steinberg.