Welcome to the Center for the Humanities! While I was appointed Director in January of 2014, I couldn't begin to offer the opportunities, events, and outreach for which our Center has become known without the help of the chairs and members of our many committees, and our affiliate faculty!
My own research in the Humanities focuses on translation studies, Romantic and Gothic literature, and the intersections between literature, philosophy, and science in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Of late, I've become intrigued by scholarship that puts the humanities, translation, and the sciences into conversation, to which my recent essays “Nothing Human” in Educational Theory (October 2014) and “‘A Proper Contagion’: The Inoculation Narrative and the Immunological Turn” in the collection Transforming Contagion: Risky Contacts among Bodies, Disciplines, and Nations (2018) testify. I also edited a special volume on “Teaching Romantic Translation(s)” for Romantic Circle Pedagogies (July 2014). I am completing a translation of Goethe's The Passion of Young Werther under contract with Broadview Press.
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