Robert Hollander, preeminent scholar of Dante, ‘pioneer’ of the digital humanities and Princeton alumnus, dies at 87
Julie Clack, Office of Communications
May 13, 2021 2:19 p.m.
Robert Hollander, professor of European literature, and French and Italian, emeritus, and renowned scholar of Dante, died peacefully of natural causes at his family’s home in Pau uilo, Hawaii on April 20. He was 87.
Robert Hollander
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Hollander joined Princeton’s faculty in 1962 and transferred to emeritus status in 2003. His teaching and research centered on medieval Italian literature, with a focus on the work of Dante Alighieri and Giovanni Boccaccio.
“Professor Hollander was a central figure in the Department of French and Italian for 40 years,” said Tom Trezise, professor of French and Italian and department chair. “His substantial publications and related professional activity ensured a very prominent place for Princeton on the in
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Martin Hägglund
Martin Hägglund, who specializes in post-Kantian philosophy, critical theory, and modernist literature, has been appointed the Birgit Baldwin Professor of Comparative Literature and Humanities, effective April 17.
He is a member of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and is chair of the Department of Comparative Literature.
Hägglund, who joined the Yale faculty in 2012, engages with texts in French, German, English, and Scandinavian languages. He has received fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the Fulbright Commission, and the Bogliasco Foundation. He was elected to the Harvard Society of Fellows in 2009, awarded The Schück Prize by the Swedish Academy in 2014, and received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2018.
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Empire of Texts in Motion: Chinese, Korean, and Taiwanese Transculturations of Japanese Literature (Harvard, 2009);
Ecoambiguity: Environmental Crises and East Asian Literatures (Michigan, 2012); and
Global Healing: Literature, Advocacy, Care (Brill, 2020). She edited a special issue of
Literature and Medicine on world literature and health, co-edited a special issue of the
Journal of World Literature on trans-regional Asia and futures of world literature, a special issue of
Humanities on global indigeneities and environment (published also as a separate volume), and a volume on
Lost and Unfounded
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Discussed in this essay: The Lost Writings
, by Franz Kafka, edited by Reiner Stach, translated by Michael Hofmann. New Directions, 2020. 128 pages.
FRANZ KAFKA’S WRITINGS have from the start been afflicted with dubious editing practices, so I suppose we should not be surprised by another round of the same. Much of the author’s work was published posthumously by his friend Max Brod, who sometimes modified it in the process, rearranging material and wrenching extracts from his diaries and letters. Scholars have been sorting through the curious and sometimes sordid history of these publications for decades. Now, the publishing house New Directions has released a collection of the author’s fragments entitled
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