Departmental News
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New Issue of TRANSIT Announced
May 31, 2010
Kurt Beals, editor of TRANSIT, announced a new issue of the department’s Internet journal, containing essays by Eric Ames (Berkeley PhD 1994) on Werner Herzog, et al.
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Alumnus Trop Hired at UNC, Chapel Hill
May 31, 2010
Gabe Trop became Assistant Professor in the German Department of University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
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Visiting Professor Appointment for Alumnus Huffmaster
May 31, 2010
PhD Alumnus Mike Huffmaster became a Visiting Professor at Marlboro College, Vermont.
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Two New Publications for Largier
May 31, 2010
Niklaus Largier published “Askese und Identität in Spätantike, Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit,” in Askese und Identität in Spätantike, Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit. Eds. Werner Röcke and Julia Weitbrecht. Berlin, 2010; “The Plasticity of the Soul: Mystical Darkness, Touch, and Aesthetic Experience.” (Modern Language Notes 125 (2010): 536-551.
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Kaes Awarded Twice
May 31, 2010
Anton Kaes received the 2010 GSA/DAAD book prize for the best book on German literature in 2009.
He was also given the 2010 Limine Prize from the Silent Film Festival Udine, Italy, for the best book in film scholarship published in 2009.
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Two Awards for PhD Student Haubenreich
May 31, 2010
Jacob Haubenreich was awarded a DAAD research grant (which he declined) and a Fulbright research grant to Switzerland to work in the Rilke archives of the Swiss Literature Archive.
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Feldman Receives Humboldt Research Fellowship
May 31, 2010
Karen Feldman was awarded an Alexander-von-Humboldt Research Fellowship for 2010-11.
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Largier Receives Fellow Invitation
May 31, 2010
Niklaus Largier was invited to be a Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin.
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Göktürk Receives Konstanz Fellowship
May 31, 2010
Deniz Göktürk was awarded a one-year fellowship for 2010-11 at Kulturwissenschaftliches Kolleg Konstanz in conjunction with the Exzellenzcluster “Kulturelle Grundlagen der Integration”.
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Grad Student Beals’ Poetry Translation Goes to Print
May 31, 2010
Kurt Beals was the translator of Anja Utler’s poetry book “engulf – enkindle” (Burning Deck 2010). It will appear December 15, 2010 (website). An excerpt also appeared in the magazine Two Lines.