Congratulations to graduating German Majors Emily Trujillo and Charlie Scott, who presented at NeMLA!

We are proud of our graduating German majors Charlie Scott and Emily Trujillo, who both presented research projects at the 56th Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) in Philadelphia in March!

Charlie presented on "Alien Love: The Erotics of Art in Science Fiction's Other." Emily's project, called "Irony as Pharmakon," traces irony in theories of late capitalism (Jameson, Nagle, Kornbluh) and as a trope (de Man), arguing that irony, which pertains primordially to language as the trope that marks the turning inscribed in all tropes, is necessarily reflected in the mimetic, ever-transgressive logic of late capitalism, whose politics rely on representation in language. Congratulations as well to Emily, on winning an Aresty conference grant!