July 22, 2020
(Director’s note: Johannes Schmidt teaches German in the Clemson Languages Department, where he will offer a course on “Tolerance in the Eighteenth Century” (in German) in the fall of 2020 and on Hanna Arendt and Totalitarianism (in English) in the spring of 2021. This is Clemson Humanities Now.) On November 1, 1755, an earthquake off […]
July 20, 2020
(Director’s Note: Seeing Covid-19 hit Italy early, and hard, I wrote to a colleague in the Department of Languages, Roberto Risso, for his sense of the situation, below. Dr. Risso was born and raised in Turin, Italy, where he lived until eleven years ago. After relocating to the US, he has lived in Wisconsin, Maine, and […]
July 8, 2020
(Director’s note: Pauline de Tholozany, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Languages department, specializes in 19th-century French Literature. Her first book, L’Ecole de la maladresse (Paris: Honoré Champion, 2017), is a history of clumsiness in the 18th and 19th centuries. She is now working on a second book that focuses on impatience, a feeling that we tend to decry; […]
July 1, 2020
(Director’s note: Salvador Oropesa, Chair of Languages, earned a PhD in Latin American literature from Arizona State, was born in Málaga, Spain, and studied Spanish Philology at the Universidad de Granada, Spain. This is Clemson Humanities Now.) At this age of wisdom and foolishness, the pandemic arrived with the new year. The citizens of the […]
June 10, 2020
(Director’s note: Joseph Mai, Associate Professor of French, with an affiliation in World Cinema, team teaches with Angela Naimou, Associate Professor of English, a Creative Inquiry group,“Stories of Refuge, Detention, and Hospitality,” dedicated to understanding the stories of immigrants, the conditions of detention, and creative practices of hospitality. This is Clemson Humanities Now.) If you are […]
