Dr. Erik Gray is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He is the author of The Poetry of Indifference: From the Romantics to the Rubáiyát (Massachusetts 2005) and Milton and the Victorians (Cornell 2009), as well as the editor of Tennyson's In Memoriam (Norton 2004) and Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book 2 (Hackett 2006). He has also published articles on a range of poets including Virgil, Sidney, Donne, Milton, Pope, Gray, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, the Brownings, and Christina Rossetti.

Dr. Talley’s talk is part of a book-length project on the evacuation and children’s literature that has won grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Children’s Literature Association, and the ALAN Foundation.

Dr. Lee Talley is Associate Professor of English at Rowan University where she teaches Victorian and children’s literature. She edited the Broadview edition of Anne Brontë’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and has most recently published in Children’s Literature and Keywords for Children’s Literature (edited by Philip Nel and Lissa Paul).

Stephen Brockmann is president of the German Studies Association and Professor of German at Carnegie Mellon University. He is the author, most recently, of A Critical History of German Film (2010), as well as of Nuremberg: The Imaginary Capital (2006), German Literary Culture at the Zero Hour (2004), and Literature and German Reunification (1999). In 2007 he won the DAAD Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in German and European Studies/Humanities. From 2002-2007 he was the managing editor of the Brecht Yearbook.

A group of this year's LL.M. students will discuss past struggles and future challenges related to the rule of law in their home countries. The second of two lectures, this event will feature discussions by Ivan Milosevic (Serbia), Cristian Minor (Mexico), Kustrim Tolaj (Kosovo), and Abeer Hashayka, Wael Lafee, and Mais Qandeel (Palestine).

Did World History arise suddenly in the late-20th-century U.S., either because of individuals such as William McNeill or movements such as the World History Association? Or did world history arise more gradually throughout the 20th century through rethinking of universal and Eurocentric histories?

Katja Naumann takes the latter approach, emphasizing the gradual establishment of world-historical criteria from 1920 to 1970, for instance through “general education.”

In Person:
3703 WW Posvar Hall
Reception to follow

Live Online:
Link from the
World History Center at:

Join us on Tuesday, April 3rd as three alumni of the European Studies Center discuss how their interests in

INFORMATION SESSION: Career and Internship Opportunities with the U.S. Dept. of State

Tom Armbruster
Senior Foreign Service Officer
Diplomat in Residence
City College of New York

Date: April 4th, 2012
Time: 1:00
Place: 4130 Posvar Hall

Dr. Christian Burgsmuller, a career EU diplomat with the European External Action Service (EEAS) and current Counselor at the EU Delegation to the U.S. in Washington, D.C. gave a lecture about transatlantic energy challenges facing the world today.

Professor Wesche researches in the 17th through the 21st Centuries and is particularly interested in poetics and rhetoric, drama, and myth. The author of two monographs (Der Vers im Drama. Studien zur Theorie und Verwendung im deutschsprachigen Sprechtheater des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts. [2009] and Literarische Diversität. Abweichungen, Lizenzen und Spielräume in der deutschen Poesie und Poetik der Barockzeit. [2004]) and editor of another four volumes and numerous articles, Professor Wesche will present his recent research on literature, biology, and the transfer of knowledge.

Is there such a thing as Jewish horror? Looking at examples of what has frightened Jews over three millennia of literary history, we'll venture some conclusions.