Departmental News
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Rauch and Grad Students Publish Article
May 31, 2012
Irmengard Rauch and co-authors Julisa Edwards, Justin Farwell, Carolyn Hawkshaw, MaryEllen LeBlanc, Chris Little, Stephanie Peltner, Tim Price, Michael St. Clair, Peter Woods published “BAG XI: Toward Human:Canine Communication” in “The Interdisciplinary Journal for Germanic Linguistics and Semiotic Analysis” vol. 16,2 (2011), pages 203-254.
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Grad Student Woods Receives Fulbright Grant
May 31, 2012
Peter Woods has been awarded a Fulbright Grant to Austria for 2012-13 to carry out fieldwork on his dissertation research on “Slovene Bilingualism and German Language Contact.”
He gathered data for the Slovene part of his study through a FLAS Award to Slovenia during
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Kudszus to Give Keynote in Finland, Teach Seminar in Latvia
May 31, 2012
Winfried Kudszus will deliver the keynote lecture at the Metamind Symposium “Modelling of Time and Space”, which will take place at the International Semiotics Institute in Imatra, Finland, in June 2012.
In the summer of 2012, he will teach the compact graduate seminar “Critical Concepts of Text and Culture” at the Latvian Academy of Culture, Riga.
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Two PhD Students Named Outstanding GSI
May 31, 2012
Seth Meyer and Dagmar Theison have been selected the for the Outstanding GSI Award.
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PhD Student Almog Receives Minerva Fellowship
May 31, 2012
Yael Almog received a 14-month fellowship from the Minerva Foundation, sponsored by the Max-Planck-Geselleschaft, to write her dissertation at the Humboldt University in Berlin.
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Graduate Student Receives Berlin Program Fellowship
May 31, 2012
Eric Savoth received a dissertation fellowship from the Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin. His research will focus on the role of rationalization in literature and science around 1900 in Germany.
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Fulbright Scholarship Awarded to PhD Student Allred
May 31, 2012
Mason Allred was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to conduct dissertation
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Grad Student Receives IES Funding
May 31, 2012
Tara Hottman received the IES Summer Fellowship.
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Graduate Student Receives Mellon Fellowship
May 31, 2012
Kurt Beals, working on “Poetic Economies: Experimental Literature and Commercial Culture,” receives a Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship.
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Five New Publications by Kaes
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Anton Kaes published “Requiem for a Lost Planet: Notes on Werner Herzog’s Fata Morgana” in: Just Images: Ethics and the Cinematic, ed. by Boaz Hagin et al., Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011; “Asphalt” in: Le Giornate Del Cinema Muto Catalogue, 2011; “Illusions and Delusions” in: 3 Silent Classics by Josef von Sternberg, New York: Criterion; “29 November 1923: Karl Grune Die Straße Inaugurates ‘Street Film’, Foreshadows Film Noir” in: A New History of German Cinema, ed. Jennifer M. Kapczynski and Michael D. Richardson. Camden House: Rochester, NY; “Siegfried Kracauer: Film Historian in Exile” in: Escape to Life: German Exiles in New York, ed. by Sigrid Weigel and Eckhart…