Parvulescu wins $1.2M EU grant to study comparative literature origins
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Parvulescu wins $1.2M EU grant to study comparative literature origins

Anca Parvulescu, the Liselotte Dieckmann Professor in Comparative Literature and a professor of English, both in Arts & Sciences, at Washington University in St. Louis, will serve as principal investigator for a $1.2 million grant exploring the history of comparatism and the origins of the comparative method. The project is funded by the European Union, […]

WashU students explore Shakespeare at Globe Theatre in London
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WashU students explore Shakespeare at Globe Theatre in London

Last summer, 18 students from Washington University in St. Louis traveled to London for an intensive summer program at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre. In this video, Claire Sommers, a lecturer in the Performing Arts Department in Arts & Sciences, describes the group’s aims and what it means to explore the places that shaped the Bard. “I […]

New tool to enable exploration of human-environment interactions
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New tool to enable exploration of human-environment interactions

November 22, 2023

Universal device will allow transdisciplinary collaboration globally Spurred by the current climate crisis, there has been a heightened attention within the scientific community in recent years to how past climate variation contributed to historic human migration and other behaviors.  Now, an international group of scientists — including archaeologists, historians, climate scientists, paleo-scientists, a volcanologist and […]

Senior Tori Harwell selected as a Rhodes Scholar
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Senior Tori Harwell selected as a Rhodes Scholar

November 12, 2023

WashU’s 30th Rhodes Scholar wants to help grassroots leaders find climate solutions Washington University in St. Louis senior Victoria “Tori”  Harwell has been selected as a Rhodes Scholar, the 30th winner in university history. Harwell was among the 32 students nationwide selected Saturday, Nov. 11, to receive the prestigious honor that provides scholars the opportunity to earn an […]

Telling a tale of two cities
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Telling a tale of two cities

November 6, 2023

Senior Lauren Harpold received a Summer Undergraduate Research Award and was named a Pulitzer Reporting Fellow for her research on land use and gentrification in St. Louis and Amsterdam. For as long as she’s been at WashU, Lauren Harpold has been thinking about housing. The senior anthropology major grew up in Houston, Texas, and lived […]

Holiness and humanity in the Middle Ages
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Holiness and humanity in the Middle Ages

October 24, 2023

Mark Gregory Pegg’s new book explores love, heresy, and the individual stories of the medieval West. In his new book, “Beatrice’s Last Smile: A New History of the Middle Ages,” Professor of History Mark Gregory Pegg traces humanity’s changing relationship to the divine over 1,200 years of western medieval history. Recently, he sat down with the Ampersand […]

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McGlothlin wins Sybil Halpern Milton Book Prize

October 17, 2023

Erin McGlothlin, professor of German and Jewish studies and vice dean of undergraduate affairs, won the 2023 Sybil Halpern Milton Book Prize for “The Mind of the Holocaust Perpetrator in Fiction and Nonfiction.” Sponsored by the German Studies Association, the award is given to the best book published in the previous two years on the subject of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. McGlothlin’s book examines texts — nonfiction accounts and fictionalized portraits — that portray the inner experiences of Holocaust perpetrators.

Addressing crimes against humanity
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Addressing crimes against humanity

September 14, 2023

Law professor and international criminal lawyer Leila Nadya Sadat explains why she’ll ‘never give up’ in the pursuit of a global treaty to prosecute mass crimes taking place in Ukraine and around the world.

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