Lynne Tatlock draws on her skills as an archival researcher, philologist, computational analyst, close reader, book historian, and scholar of translation theory and practice in her current project to bring light to the woman authors of turn-of-the-century Germany.
Faculty Fellow Corinna Treitel traces the history of health consciousness — that voice in our heads that instructs us how and why to take care of our minds and bodies.
On his recent visit to WashU, scholar Eric Hayot met with English PhD student Maria Siciliano about his most recent monographs, “On Literary Worlds” and “Humanist Reason,” as well as his essential guide to academic writing in the humanities, “The Elements of Academic Style.” They discussed a process-oriented vision of writing, considered new questions for teaching across the humanities and outlined methods that are key to humanist research.
Dignitaries representing China at the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair got the media attention, but historian Zhao Ma wondered about the lives of the workers — interpreters, merchants, cooks and carpenters — who supported China’s mission. Traveling to the U.S. the height of the Chinese Exclusion Act, they faced intense scrutiny and discrimination at every turn.
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