Discipline: Literature – nonfiction

Mark Harman

Discipline: Literature – nonfiction
Region: Lancaster, PA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2006
Mark Harman is professor of English and German at Elizabethtown College, where he also holds the College Chair of International Studies. He has translated various German-language authors, including Kafka — Harman’s rendering of The Castle (Schocken) won the first Lois Roth Award of the Modern Language Association — Rilke, Hesse, Robert Walser, and is currently completing a volume of annotated Kafka translations. His writing on Irish and German literature has appeared in publications ranging from The Irish Times, Los Angeles Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, The Times Literary Supplement, Sewanee Review, New Hibernia Review, and Sinn und Form (Berlin).

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Star

Mark Harman worked in the Star studio.

Funded by Alpha Chi Omega, a national fraternity founded in 1885, Star Studio — built in 1911–1912 — was the first studio given to the residency by an outside organization. To this day, Alpha Chi sorority pledges learn the story of Star Studio and its role in supporting American arts and letters. Beginning as a nicely proportioned…

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