- Five students received their PhDs: David Gramling, Dayton Henderson, Jason Kooiker, Robert Schechtman, Azadeh Yamini-Hamedani. Kudos! (See their dissertation topics.)
- Claire Kramsch published “The Multilingual Subject” (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009). She also published “La circulation transfrontalière des valeurs dans un projet de recherche international”, Le Français dans le Monde 46 (2009); “Grammar games and bilingual blends,” PMLA May 2009.
- Paul Dobryden was awarded a Center for German and European Studies/IES pre-dissertation fellowship.
- Inez Hollander published “Verstilde stemmen en verzwegen levens: Een Indische familiegeschiedenis” (Amsterdam: Atlas). The book was included in the top 100 for consideration of the Dutch AKO Literature Prize. She also received a Taalunie Research Grant to fund the research and writing of a Dutch for Reading Knowledge textbook.
- Deniz Göktürk published “Postcolonial Amnesia? Taboo Memories and Kanaks with Cameras”. Volker Langbehn, ed. German Colonialism, Visual Culture, and Modern Memory. London: Routledge, 2009: 278-301.
- Winfried Kudszus published “Katastrophenmomente: Chayan Khoï, Sigmund Freud, Friedrich Nietzsche.” Was die Aufmerksamkeit erregt. Ed. U. H. Peters; “Friedrich Nietzsche’s Late Notes and Wilhelm Roux: Microlinguistic Performance and Microphysiology.” Communication: Understanding/Misunderstanding. Ed. Eero Tarasti; “Chayan Khoï’s Lost Worlds and Sigmund Freud’s Übermensch Stream: On Salience and Catastrophe.” Les Signes du Monde: Interculturalité et Globalisation. Eds. Bernard Lamizet & Louis Panier.
- Karen Feldman published “De Man’s Kant and Goebbels’ Schiller: The Ideology of Reception,” in MLN, Volume 124, Number 5, December 2009 (Comparative Literature Issue), pp. 1170-1187.
- Anton Kaes published “Shell Shock Cinema: Weimar Culture and the Wounds of War” (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. 2009).
- Jason Witt (Berkeley Ph.D. 2008, University of Manchester) published his dissertation “Evidentiality and Perception Verbs in English and German” (Bern: Peter Lang) 2009.
- Gabriel Trop published “The Persistence of the Fragile World: Poetic Cognition in Hölderlin’s Poetological Writing and ‘Der Rhein’,” Interdisciplinary Journal for Germanic Linguistics and Semiotic Analysis vol.14, 1 (2009)
- Chenxi Tang was awarded an Alexander von Humboldt research fellowship for 2009-10 to work on his current book project, “Imagining World Order: International Law and Literature in the Age of the Sovereign State, 1600-1900.”
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