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Allegheny College Student Grace O’Malley Awarded Prestigious NOAA Hollings Scholarship

by Josh Tysiachney April 16th 2018

Allegheny College sophomore Grace O’Malley has been awarded an Ernest F. Hollings Undergraduate Scholarship by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). O’Malley is the third Allegheny student to win a Hollings Scholarship in the last two years. The competitive scholarship includes two years of tuition support and a paid 10-week summer internship to conduct research, resource

Senior Samantha Bretz Sets Her Sights on Becoming Miss Pennsylvania

by Emma Highland '19 March 29th 2018

Allegheny College senior Samantha Bretz will compete for the title of Miss Pennsylvania in June, now that she already carries the banner of Miss Crawford County. Bretz was crowned Miss Crawford County 2018 in February, competing against eight other contestants in Conneaut Lake. She won the interview, talent and evening gown awards as well as

Allegheny Presents Its Annual International Film Festival

by Richard Stanley January 11th 2018

The Allegheny College Department of Modern and Classical Languages will present its free 2018 International Film Festival, a five-week series of foreign films to be shown at The Movies at Meadville at 7 p.m. on Wednesdays between Jan. 31 and Feb. 28. The series begins on Jan. 31 with the 2017 French film “Faces Places”

Herrman Presents at Panel on Identity in Greek Oratory

by Erica Erwin August 31st 2017

Frank T. McClure Professor of Greek and Latin Judson Herrman presented a paper on “Others as Athenians in the third Philippic” at a panel on identity in Greek oratory for the Celtic Conference in Classics in Montreal in July 2017.

Reeck Authors Chapter in Book on Arab Novelistic Traditions

by Erica Erwin August 30th 2017

Professor of French and Chair of International Studies Laura Reeck contributed the chapter on France to The Oxford Handbook of Arab Novelistic Traditions (ed. Waïl S. Hassan), which was just released. In the chapter, Reeck creates a literary history for what could be called the Arab diasporic novel in France.

Ludewig, Reeck Present at Literature Symposium Roundtables

by Erica Erwin August 30th 2017

Assistant Professor of German Julia Ludewig and Associate Professor of French Laura Reeck presented on roundtables at the GLCA World Literature Symposium in Ann Arbor, Michigan on June 1-3. Their contributions to the roundtables were based on position papers titled “Distributed Visual Storytelling in Reineke” and “The French Case: Questions of Diversity in the Global

Riess Short Story Translation Published

by Erica Erwin May 3rd 2017

Associate Professor of Modern and Classical Languages Barbara Riess’s translation of the short story “Brutal Mirage” by Guillermo López-Prieto was published in this month’s Cuban Counterpoints: Public Scholarship about a Changing Cuba. Riess will be taking a group of 12 Allegheny students with Prof. Brittany Davis to Cuba for an Experiential Learning Tour, “Revolutionary Products,” on

Renowned String Quartet Brings New Perspective to Study of Language at Allegheny College

by Josh Tysiachney March 16th 2017

Works by Mozart, Beethoven and Bartók, performed by the award-winning Alexander String Quartet, resounded in a third-floor classroom on a recent morning in Allegheny College’s Ruter Hall. But the students taking in the performance weren’t attending a music course. Instead, they were studying German language and literature.

Allegheny College to Present International Film Festival

by Erica Erwin February 8th 2017

The 2017 International Film Festival, sponsored by the Department of Modern & Classical Languages at Allegheny College, kicks off Wednesday, Feb. 15 at 7 p.m. at The Movies @ Meadville with “After Spring,” a feature-length documentary that focuses on the Syrian refugee crisis.

Herrman invited for residency in Geneva

by Josh Tysiachney September 2nd 2016

Judson Herrman, associate professor of classical studies and Frank T. McClure Chair of Greek and Latin, has been invited for a residency in November 2016 at the Fondation Hardt pour l’étude de l’Antiquité classique, a research institute for classics in Geneva. Herrman will work on his book manuscript, Selected Political Speeches of Demosthenes.

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