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  • Alumnus Kooiker Publishes Book on Swiss German

    May 31, 2011

    Jason Kooiker published “Swiss German Diglossia and the Classroom” (New York: Peter Lang, 2011).

  • PhD Student Savoth Publishes Article

    May 31, 2011

    Eric Savoth published “Outside Thought: Meillassoux, Uexküll, Peirce” (Interdisciplinary Journal for Germanic Linguistics and Semiotic Analysis, 16.1, 2011).

  • Contemporary Theater Expert Lehmann is Visiting Professor

    May 31, 2011

    Hans-Thies Lehmann was the Max Kade Distinguished Visiting Professor in the German Department in Spring 2011.

    Lehmann taught at the Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main until his retirement in 2010. He is the leading authority in contemporary German theater and performance. His book “Postdramatisches Theater” has been translated into many languages and counts as a key to understand present-day experimental theater that uses new media.

    In February and March he taught the compact seminar on German Theatre since 1968.

  • Alumnus Price Dissertation Published

    May 31, 2011

    Timothy Price published his dissertation “The Leipzig ‘Heliand’ Manuscript Fragment (MS L): New Evidence concerning Luther, the Poet, and Ottonian Heritage”.

  • Alumna Publishes Heliand Translation with Foreword by Rauch

    May 31, 2011

    Tonya Dewey published “The Old Saxon Heliand: An Annotated English Translation” (Edwin Mellen Press) with a foreword by Irmengard Rauch.

  • Rauch Revisions Published

    May 31, 2011

    Irmengard Rauch published a second revised edition of “Gothic Language: Grammar, Genetic Provenance and Typology, Readings” (New York: Peter Lang, 2011); “An Introduction to Old Frisian – Rolf H. Bremmer” NOWELE 60/61 (2011).

  • Alumna Roberts’ Dissertation Published

    May 31, 2011

    Suin Shin Roberts (Berkeley PhD 1994, Indiana-Purdue University, Fort Wayne) published her dissertation, “Language of Migration: Self- and Other- Perception of Korean Immigrants in Germany”.

  • Graduate Student Allred Publishes in Journal of Popular Culture

    May 31, 2011

    Mason Allred published “Pumping up Masculinity: The Initial Intervention and Lasting Legacy of Hans and Franz” in The Journal of Popular Culture.

  • Six New Publications by Kramsch

    May 31, 2011

    Claire Kramsch published “Theorizing translingual/transcultural competence,” in G. Levine & A. Phipps (Eds.) Critical and Intercultural Theory and Language Pedagogy. Boston: Heinle, 2011; articles on “Language, culture, and context”; “Teaching culture and intercultural competence”; “Subjectivity,” in Carol Chapelle (Ed.) “Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics. Language and Culture” in James Simpson (Ed.) Routledge Handbook of Applied Linguistics; “Intercultural contact, hybridity and third space” (co-authored with Michiko Uryu) in Jane Jackson (ed.): Routledge Handbook on Intercultural Communication; “The symbolic dimensions of the intercultural. Language Teaching. Symbolische Kompetenz durch literarische Texte,” in Fremdsprache Deutsch, Heft 44.

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  • Two New Publications for Kudszus

    May 31, 2011

    Winfried Kudszus published “Intercultural Communication: The Case of Psychoanalysis” in Culture of Communication/Communication of Culture. (Coruña: Proceedings of the 10th World Congress of Semiotics, 2009); “Der Othem des Absoluten: Johann Georg Hamann’s Neue Apologie des Buchstaben ‘h’ und seine Aesthetica in nuce” Metamorphoses of the Absolute. ed. Daina Teters.