Departmental News
News
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Alumna Dewey to Complete Postdoc in Norway
May 31, 2010
Tonya Kim Dewey accepted a postdoctoral position in the Linguistics Department at the University of Bergen in Norway.
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Alumna Warner Receives Award for Article
May 31, 2010
Chantelle Warner (Berkeley PhD 2007, Assistant Professor at The University of Arizona) received the 2009 Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA) Award for best article by a newcomer to the field of stylistics.
The article was a revised version of one of her dissertation chapters (addressing immediacy effects, deixis and narrative); it was published in the journal Language and Literature.
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Kaes Honored for Teaching Work
May 31, 2010
Anton Kaes received a Teaching Prize in Arts and Humanities.
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Schuler is New Visiting Lecturer
May 31, 2010
Martina Schuler became a visiting lecturer in the German Department.
She studied German philology, early modern and modern German literature, and French at the University of Tübingen and wrote a dissertation on Goethe, “Novellistisches Erzählen in Goethes Romanen Die Wahlverwandtschaften und Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre oder die Entsagende”.
Before coming to Berkeley she was a research fellow at the University of Tübingen, working on a new edition of Nürnberger Fastnachtspiele. Schuler taught German 123 (German Literature from 1800 to the Present) in spring 2010.
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Congratulations to Five New PhDs!
May 31, 2010
Five students received their PhDs: Michael Huffmaster, Timothy Price, Sabrina Rahman, Aida Sakaluaskaite, and Gabe Trop. Kudos!
(See their dissertation topics.)
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Euba Directs DAAD Workshop in Berkeley
May 31, 2010
Nikolaus Euba directed the 7th annual DAAD-sponsored workshop “Deutsch als Fremdsprache in den USA: Grundzüge und Perspektiven,” hosting 21 graduate students and junior faculty from all over the US and featuring guest lectures by UC Berkeley professors Claire Kramsch and Richard Kern.
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PhD Students Layne and Etzler Co-Edit Book
May 31, 2010
Priscilla Layne and Melissa Etzler co-edited “Rebellion and Revolution: Defiance in German Language, History and Art” (New Castle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing).
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Graduate Students Translate Plays for Berlin Theater
May 31, 2010
Robin Ellis, Kristin Dickinson and Priscilla Layne translated the plays “Schwarze Jungfrauen” (by Feridun Zaimoglu), “Klassentreffen” and “Ferienlager” (by the akademie der autodidakten lab I) for the Ballhaus Naunynstraße in Berlin.
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Grad Student First to Receive Bernhard-Zeller Scholarship
May 31, 2010
Melissa Etzler was the recipient of the first Bernhard-Zeller-Stipendium, Deutsches Literaturarchiv, Marbach to work on a dissertation on W. G. Sebald.
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Kudszus Publishes in Book on Music
May 31, 2010
Winfried Kudszus published “Before Opera in Bobrowski’s Litauische Claviere” in Before and After Music. Ed. Lina Navickaite-Martinelli (2010). Translation into Lithuanian forthcoming.