Foreign Languages and Literatures
Holden Ferry ’11 and Amiel Family Present College with French Translation of A Son and His Adoptive Father
Earlier this semester, Holden Ferry ’11 (Glencoe, Ill.), a French major, presented a full translation into French of the exhibition catalog “A Son and His Adoptive Father” to Diane Windham Shaw, special collections librarian and college archivist, for the archives. The catalog was for the exhibit featured first at Mount Vernon and then Lafayette during [...]
Big Dreams and Preparation Allow Lafayette Graduates to Succeed Right Out of the Gate
A producer with The Today Show; a laser communications system developer for the Navy, a makeup artist with Abercrombie & Fitch, Nautica, and Ralph Lauren; features manager for The Nate Berkus Show; advertising director for Macy’s, lobbyist on Capitol Hill with IBM. These are just a few examples of high-profile careers that young Lafayette alumni [...]
Courtroom Dynamics and Daily Variety Appeal to Assistant DA Erin Kelsh ’03
By Matt Sinclair ’90 One reason for the proliferation of television shows about criminal law: It’s hard to get bored. “On a daily basis, you’re never going to get the same thing,” says Erin Reynolds Kelsh ’03, describing her work as an assistant district attorney in the felony trial bureau of the Office of the [...]
Lafayette Organizes Undergraduate Research Conference in German Studies
Lafayette’s Max Kade Center for German Studies and Moravian College have organized the Undergraduate Research Conference in German Studies held Saturday, March 26 at Moravian. Research projects by 19 students from schools throughout Pennsylvania have been selected for presentation at the conference, including work by Susan Grunewald ’11 (Wilton, Conn.), a Russian and East European [...]
Max Kade Center: The Hub of German Activity and Learning at Lafayette
Students at Lafayette have access to a beautiful and high-tech resource center where they can study and enhance their understanding and appreciation of German language and culture. The Max Kade Center for German Studies is a classroom, reading room, conference room, informal discussion area, multimedia presentation facility, and library. It serves as the hub of [...]
Professors Duhl and Lamb-Faffelberger Advance Scholarship through Editorial Positions at International Journals
Lafayette’s international reputation continues to grow as Olga Anna Duhl and Margarete Lamb-Faffelberger, professors of foreign languages and literatures, have been appointed editors of leading peer-reviewed journals in their fields. Both professors are dedicated to maintaining and elevating the high intellectual caliber of the publications. Duhl, who specializes in French, will serve as the correspondent [...]
Students Use $10,000 Projects for Peace Grant to Run Summer Youth Program in Colombia
Four students used a $10,000 Davis Foundation “Projects for Peace” grant this summer to spend five weeks in Bogotá, Colombia, and run a youth program for 80 school children ages 5 to 16. They worked with Fundación Ayuda por Colombia (FAC), a nonprofit organization that operates an afterschool program for these children during the school [...]
Language Center Provides All the Resources Students Need to Learn
Christopher McNeill ’12 (Setauket, N.Y.) spends about 10 hours each week in the College’s Foreign Language and Literatures Resource Center. A double major in international affairs and German, McNeill uses the center to edit papers, practice German with interactive games, watch contemporary German DVDs and TV, and work on class projects, such as a radio [...]
Professor Osvaldo Cleger’s New Book Explores the Impact of Blogs on Literature
While working on his doctoral dissertation at the University of Arizona several years ago, Professor Osvaldo Cleger stumbled upon what would become the topic of his book, Narrar en la era de las blogoficciones [The Art of Narrating in the Age of Blog-Fictions]. He kept a miscellaneous blog in which he chronicled his dissertation research. [...]
Professor Rado Pribic Travels to Germany and Austria to Study the Looting of European Art by the Nazis
Professor Rado Pribic will be visiting museums and other locations in Germany and Austria in June and July to research the looting of art objects during the Nazi Era and the restitution of those objects to the families of the rightful owners. Pribic, Williams Professor of Foreign Languages and Literatures and chair of international affairs, [...]
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