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.
Kurt Beals, visiting associate professor of German studies, is on the shortlist for the James Tait Black Prize for his translation of Jenny Erpenbeck’s essay collection Things that Disappear: Reflections and Memories.
Michael Marsh-Soloway was promoted to senior teaching faculty of Literatures, Languages, and Cultures. His specialties include Russian literature and culture, linguistics, and intellectual history in the sciences.
Sonja Bertucci was promoted to associate professor of languages, literatures, & cultures. She is a filmmaker and her most recent feature-length documentary, The Diamond Couple (2024), is an intimate meditation on love, aging, and the transmission of memory. She is currently working on a new experimental project inspired by French writer Georges Perec’s Lieux.
Kamal Gasimov, assistant professor of Arabic studies, published “Eurasia and eschatology. Dugin’s antiliberal resonances in the Muslim world” in Studies in East European Thought.
Kamal Gasimov, assistant professor of Arabic studies, published “Philosophical Encyclopedia in a Mystical Fatwā: The Sufi Readers of the ‘Brethren of Purity’ (Iḫwān al-Ṣafāʾ) in Sixteenth-Century Cairo under Ottoman Rule” in Arabica: Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies.
Sonja Bertucci, assistant professor of languages, literatures, and cultures (film studies), was named a University of Richmond Center for Liberal Arts and AI (CLAAI) 2025-2026 Fellow.
Sara Pappas, associate professor of French and visual culture, published the book Naturalism's Imaginary Museum, French Art, and the Eclectic Nineteenth Century.
Michael Marsh-Soloway, teaching faculty of literatures, languages, and cultures, published The Mathematical Mind of F. M. Dostoevsky: Imaginary Numbers, Non-Euclidean Geometry, and Infinity.