Department of Languages, Literatures, & Cultures

Caitlin Giustiniano, visiting assistant professor of Russian studies, was awarded a fellowship by the American Councils for International Education for a four-week immersive program that combines language and cultural study in Kazakhstan.

Kurt Beals, visiting associate professor of German studies, received an honorable mention for the Stephen Mitchell Prize for Excellence in Translation for So the Day Begins: Grief Refrain, a translation of Anja Utler’s book of poetry.

Kurt Beals, visiting associate professor of German studies, was named to the shortlist for the Helen & Kurt Wolff Translator’s Prize for his translation of Erich Maria Remarque’s classic novel All Quiet on the Western Front. The award is considered one of the top prizes for German-English translators.

Daria Bozzato, visiting assistant professor in Italian studies, received a research fellowship from the Luso-American Development Foundation (FLAD) in partnership with the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal (BNP), to fund her research project "Domesticating the Deviant: Photography, Honor, and the Surgical Policing of Women in the Luso-Italian-American Asylum." The project investigates how psychosurgery and psychiatric photography functioned as tools for the "surgical domestication" of women across Portugal, Italy, and the United States.