Justin Steinberg, Professor of Italian Literature, has been awarded a grant by the National Endowment for the Humanities to support the research and writing of his current book project, Mimesis on Trial: Boccaccio’s Realism, Judicial Inquest, and the Rise of the Novella.
Frederick de Armas' new book, El retorno de Astrea: astrología, mito e imperio en Calderón (The Return of Astrea: astrology, myth, and empire in Caldéron), is now available from theBiblioteca Áurea Hispánica.
Alison James, Professor of French Literature, has been named Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques in recognition of her contributions to the promotion of French language and culture in the United States.
Miguel Martínez, Assistant Professor of Spanish Literature, has published his new book, Front Lines: Soldiers' Writing in the Early Modern Hispanic World. The book documents and investigates written works on war by Spanish soldier -- a set of works that has, thus far, been nearly completely ignored by modern scholarship.
