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Danielle Pettiti, an undergraduate in Professor Elizabeth Moodey’s spring 2016 Art of the Book class, describes the way illuminated manuscripts were created in the medieval period. Pettiti notes that her favorite part of the class was “decoding” her…

Abby Broughton, a graduate student in Hanna Roman’s spring 2016 “Rethinking the Enlightenment French Novel” class, speaks to the evolving role of fiction as a more or less dangerous tool for social education in the eighteenth century as seen in the…

Cara Wilson, a graduate student in Hanna Roman’s spring 2016 “Rethinking the Enlightenment French Novel” class, discusses how the development of reading for pleasure, and specifically the pleasure derived from reading depictions of the foreign and…

Kate Devine, a graduate student in Hanna Roman’s spring 2016 “Rethinking the Enlightenment French Novel” class, discusses how we can imagine the relationship between the reader’s body and the body of the text in eighteenth-century literature in the…

Bonnie Griffin, a graduate student in Hanna Roman’s spring 2016 “Rethinking the Enlightenment French Novel” class, examines the physical composition/materiality of eighteenth-century books in the Morris Wachs Collection. Drawn to the exquisite…

Professor Hanna Roman discusses her interest in rare books and in bringing learning outside of the classroom in this exhibition that highlights Eighteenth Century literature from the Morris Wachs Collection of the W.T. Bandy Center.

Tiago Fernandes Maranhão and Brad Wright, both graduate students in the History PhD program, discuss their spring 2016 Dean’s Fellows project, exploring the ethnographic collection of the Manuel Zapata Olivella Collection.

Jenifer Dodd, a fall 2015, spring and summer 2016 Dean’s Fellow, talks about her work on Science and the Subject’s Perspective: The Vernacular Archive for the Normal Volunteer Patient Program. Jenifer helped make the materials discoverable in a…

Jennifer Alexander, a spring and fall 2016 Dean’s Fellow, talks about key findings in the Alfried Krupp Trial Papers, the tenth in a series of twelve military tribunals held in Nuremberg, Germany, at the end of the Second World War. The completed…