Technicians and Artisans of Heaven-and-Earth

Friday September 19, 2025

Written By: Stephan N. Kory Brill, 2025. Technicians and Artisans and Heaven-and-Earth reconstructs memories of significant but often overlooked figures from a remarkably diverse yet understudied period of Chinese history. The book includes translations of three biographical collections from the official dynastic histories of the Northern Wei, Northern Zhou, and Sui featuring the lives of “technicians […]

Kojiki: Fully Revised Edition

Friday August 29, 2025

Revised By: Matthieu Felt Tuttle Publishing, 2025. The Kojiki is Japan’s oldest surviving text, chronicling the mythical creation of the Japanese islands, the origins of the imperial family, and the early development of Shinto, Japan’s indigenous religion. A cornerstone of Japanese identity and culture, it has profoundly influenced the nation’s literature, spirituality, and political thought for over […]

Spring 2025 LLC Newsletter

Thursday July 31, 2025

This edition offers a snapshot of the department’s activities, including student engagement, innovative research, teaching initiatives, and accomplishments by our faculty and staff.

Fall 2024 LLC Newsletter

Sunday July 13, 2025

This edition offers a snapshot of the department’s activities, including student engagement, innovative research, teaching initiatives, and accomplishments by our faculty and staff.

Spring 2025 Russian Studies Newsletter

Wednesday May 28, 2025

As another eventful academic year comes to an end, let’s take pause to congratulate our stellar majors and minors who finish their degrees this spring.

Fall 2024 Russian Studies Newsletter

Friday January 17, 2025

Drs. Ingrid Kleespies and Natalia Sletova have worked hard to set up a four-week program in the beautiful and eminently hospitable Georgian capital of Tbilisi.

Valérie Lecomte – (BA FFS 2023)

Thursday November 14, 2024

C’est Valérie 🙂 After graduating in May 2023, I felt lost and so I did what anyone who feels lost does: travel. I was traveling all over Colombia and then one day, I get a call from my sister saying there is an opening for a Pastry Chef position at Nobu.  Although having no formal […]

French and Francophone Studies Newsletter

Monday July 22, 2024

The French and Francophone Studies Newsletter includes alumni stories and program news.

Samurai with Telephones: Anachronism in Japanese Literature.

Tuesday June 4, 2024

Author: Christopher Smith Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2024. What is going on when a graphic novel has a twelfth-century samurai pick up a telephone to make a call, or a play has an ancient aristocrat teaching in a present-day schoolroom? Rather than regarding such anachronisms as errors, Samurai with Telephones develops a theory […]

Spring 2024 Russian Studies Newsletter

Thursday May 2, 2024

We thought we would take the happy retirement of one of our dearest colleagues as an opportunity to reach out to our current students and recent and longtime graduates.

Mädchen in Uniform

Thursday May 2, 2024

Author: Barbara Mennel New York City: Bloomsbury, 2024. Blurb: Leontine Sagan’s Mädchen in Uniform (1931) is a groundbreaking German film that showcases women’s agency and desire behind and in front of the camera. Adapted from Christa Winsloe’s lesbian play, the story follows Manuela, an orphan in a boarding school for impoverished Prussian nobility. When she […]

Double Feature: Two Asian-American Films

Wednesday March 27, 2024

  Tuesday, April 2 @ 5:00 PM, Pugh 170 Mysterious Savory Grains: Chef Tim Ma is on  a mission to change the negative perception of MSG as a way to share his culture through food. Through interviews with Ma and two MSG experts, the documentary explores the origin of MSG’s stigma and how the ways […]

Voyage to the Palace of the Sea Kami: Making Sense of Japanese Myths

Wednesday March 27, 2024

International Study in the USA: our list of the best universities with the most reasonable fees

Monday February 19, 2024

Impressions from Paris: Women Creatives in Interwar Years France

Friday January 12, 2024

Impressions from Paris studies the contributions of various women artists and writers who lived in Paris during the Interwar Years, from the 1920s to 1940. The “Roaring Twenties” constituted years of experimentation and freedom to test new techniques and lifestyles at a time affected by serious political changes leading to World War II. Their trajectories […]