Recognizing Martin Griffin for his recently published book Ashes of the Mind: War and Memory in Northern Literature, 1865-1900.

Author: Robert E. Stillman
Celebrations of literary fictions as autonomous worlds appeared first in the Renaissance and were occasioned, paradoxically, by their power to remedy the ills of history. Stillman explores this paradox in relation to Philip Sidney’s “Defence of Poesy”, the first Renaissance text to argue for the preeminence of poetry as an autonomous form of knowledge in the public domain.

Rickey Fayne Jr., a junior in the English department, has been accepted to participate in the Summer Institute for Literary and Cultural Studies (SILCS) to study literary and cultural theory and learn from a number of top scholars

Pravda, Slovakia’s oldest national newspaper, published a two-page color spread on the recent work of Daniel H. Magilow, assistant professor of German in the Department of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures. The article, translated “A Wartime Sensation: Slovakia has its own Anne Frank,” appeared in the April 4, 2009, edition of the paper’s weekend magazine. It discussed Dr. Magilow’s recent book In Her Father’s Eyes: A Childhood Extinguished by the Holocaust, a translated edition of a baby book (written in German) that traces a young Slovak girl’s life from her birth in Bratislava in 1929 until the family’s deportation to a Nazi death camp in 1942.

Christine Holmlund, professor in the Department of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures and the Cinema Studies Program, recently spoke at the third annual Midwest Undergraduate Film Conference hosted by Notre Dame University. Holmlund gave the keynote address “Jackie Chan and the Art of Aging in Action.”