Departmental News

Departmental News

  • Dewulf to Give Two Keynote Lectures

    May 31, 2012

    Jeroen Dewulf will deliver keynote lectures at at the Graduate Conference at McGill University in Montreal: “Europe’s Dis/integration Place, Belonging and Identity across and beyond Europe”, April 20-22, and at the IVN International Dutch Studies Associationation Antwerp Univsity: “Andere werelden”, Aug. 27-31.

  • Rauch Named 8th Sebeok Fellow

    May 31, 2012

    At the Pittsburgh SSA, Professor Rauch was inscribed as the Eighth Thomas A. Sebeok Fellow (the third American) on the occasion of which she presented a plenary address on “The Power and the Glory of Sound.” The address will be published in a Special Issue of The American Journal of Semiotics.

  • Five New Publications from Largier

    May 31, 2012

    Niklaus Largier published “Die Falte. Barocke Figuration bei Gilles Deleuze und Walter Benjamin” in Frühe Neuzeit – Späte Neuzeit. Phänomene der Wiederkehr in Literaturen und Künsten ab 1970 (Publikationen zur Zeitschrift für Germanistik, vol. 24); “Die Erfindung der Pornographie. Sasha Grey, Pietro Aretino, und das Spiel der Erregung” in Figurationen der Moderne. Mode, Pornographie und Sport (Munich: Fink); “Divine Suffering – Divine Pleasure: Martyrdom, Sensuality, and the Art of Delay” Figurationen 12/1 (2011); “Das Mögliche denken. Musils Möglichkeitssinn, die Mystik und Foucaults Konzept der Kritik” in Das Mögliche regieren. Gouvernementalität in der Literatur- und Kulturanalyse (Bielefeld: Transcript); and “Das Buch als Experiment. Georges Bataille liest Angela von Foligno”…

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  • Chaver Publishes in Jewish Social Studies

    May 31, 2012

    Yael Chaver published “Writing for the Jews, Writing for the Goyim: 20th-Century Jewish Adaptations of ‘The Merchant of Venice’” in Jewish Social Studies: History, Culture, Society 17/2 (Winter 2011).

  • Compact Seminar on Space & Time

    September 1, 2011

    This semester’s compact seminar will be taught by Visiting Professor Gertrud Koch (FU Berlin). The topic is “Space and Time in Cinema”

  • Two Undergraduate Majors Receive Scholarships

    May 31, 2011

    Keighley McFarland and Katja Minitenko, two of our German Majors, received undergraduate merit scholarships from the Institute of International Studies and were accepted as members of the IIS Junior Scholars Program for Spring 2011.

  • Kramsch Awarded Book Prize

    May 31, 2011

    Claire Kramsch received the Kenneth W. Mildenberger Prize at the 2011 MLA Convention for “an outstanding scholarly book in the fields of language, culture, literacy, or literature with strong application to the teaching of languages other than English”. Her book, ”The Multilingual Subject”, was published by Oxford University Press in 2009.

  • Accolades for Kaes

    May 31, 2011

    Anton Kaes received the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize at the 2011 MLA Convention for “outstanding scholarly work on the linguistics or literatures of the Germanic languages”. His book, “Shell Shock Cinema: Weimar Culture and the Wounds of War”, was published by Princeton University Press in 2009.

  • Grad Student Receives Fellowship for Study in India

    May 31, 2011

    Ashwin Manthripragada was the recipient of a FLAS/AIIS Fellowship for India to study advanced Sanskrit in connection with his dissertation work.

  • Hollander’s Dutch Textbook to Appear in Print

    May 31, 2011

    Inez Hollander co-authored a textbook, “Dutch for Reading Knowledge” with Christine van Baalen (Leiden University) and Frans Blom (Amsterdam University). The book will be brought out by John Benjamins (Amsterdam/Philadelphia).