Sabrina Longo-Selvaggi, Comparative and World Literature major, is the winner of this year’s HRI undergraduate research prize for her essay, “Dying to Have Children: Breastfeeding and Necropolitics in Fascist Italy,” written for GWS 250: Gender and Representation, taught by Robin...

The Nanovic Institute for European Studies, part of the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame, has awarded the 2026 Laura Shannon Prize in Contemporary European Studies to Eric Calderwood, professor...

 Professor Waïl Hassan’s book Arab Brazil: Fictions of Ternary Orientalism (Oxford University Press, 2024) receives Honorable Mention for 2025 Albert Hourani Book Award (Middle East Studies...

On March 10, Prof. George Gasyna traveled to the Gene Siskel Film Center of the Art Institute of Chicago to give a presentation and lead a Q & A session about the 1958 classic film Ashes and Diamonds (Popiół i diament, Dir. Andrzej Wajda). The film screening was part of the Chicago European...

In December 2024, Professor Waïl S. Hassan was elected second vice president of the Modern Language Association (MLA). With over 20,000 members based in over 100 countries, the MLA is the principal professional association for academic scholars, professors, and...

“Lucidly written, Eric Calderwood’s On Earth or in Poems: The Many Lives of Al- Andalus deftly traces the stories associated with al-Andalus across centuries to explore how interracial and interreligious harmony was shaped across the Middle East, North Africa, and...