Mary Carruthers, New York University, May 18, 2021. Please watch the lecture.
[more]Stephen Valeri's work at Dartmouth centered on his M.A. essay about how a French translation of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake reveals the influence of word formation on the internal relations of the work's content. He has also worked on his French and German through courses on modern authors including the 20th-century French intellectuals, Flaubert, Baudelaire, Kafka, and Brecht. Independently, he is approaching reading knowledge in Spanish and Russian.
[more]Victoria Pipas has continued to focus on poetry of the English Renaissance, and particularly on the works of Edmund Spenser, paying close attention to the reception of classical genres in the medieval and Renaissance periods and also the French humanist influences. In her M.A. essay Victoria explored how early sixteenth-century humanist descriptions of Rome's decay shaped Spenser's poetic conceptualizations of matter. She looks forward to continuing to pursue this line of inquiry as I begin a PhD in English at Harvard University this fall.
[more]Nathan Leach spent the year studying the fiction of Fyodor Dostoevsky and James Baldwin, with a focus on lived ethics and the theme of suffering. His M.A. essay treated Baldwin's reception of Dostoevsky, exploring how Dostoevsky served Baldwin's model for how suffering can be transformed into art and human togetherness. Nathan's foremost passion is education, and in the Fall he will start working in Baltimore City Public Schools as an elementary school teacher.
[more]Caroline King has recently completed her master's essay at Dartmouth with a focus on becomings in Paul Preciado's Testo yonqui. She holds a master's degree in Creative Writing from the University of Oxford and graduated from Johns Hopkins University with majors in Psychology, Writing Seminars, and Spanish. Her writing has been published in various academic and literary journals and she has completed a novel which she seeks to publish.
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