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Ken Calhoon, Mentor
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Tove Holmes, McNair Scholar

Kenneth Calhoon, Professor of German and Comparative Literature, received his Ph.D. in 1984 from the University of California, Irvine. Part of the UO faculty since 1987, his research and teaching interests range from the late eighteenth through the early twentieth century with particular emphasis on drama, early cinema, aesthetics, and the history of manners. Recent publications include “Blind Gestures: Chaplin, Diderot, Lessing” in Modern Language Notes, 2000 and “The Eye of the Panther: Rilke and the Machine of Cinema” in Comparative Literature, 2000.