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Monday, December 8, 2014

Dan Karvonen's translation of Finnish crime novel published


Among the Saints Book CoverAmong the Saints, Dan Karvonen's English translation of Finnish author Jari Tervo's crime novel "Pyhiesi yhteyteen" has been published by Ice Cold Crime. Although Jari Tervo's novels have been translated into many languages, this is his first book to appear in English. Each chapter is told in the first person by 35 different people affected by a murder that occurs in the woods of Finnish Lapland.

Angelica Fenner (Ph.D., 1999) edits essay collection

Book Cover: The Autobiographical Turn in Germanophone Documentary and Experimental Film
The Autobiographical Turn in Germanophone Documentary and Experimental Film, a collection of essays edited by Angelica Fenner (Ph.D., 1999), has been published by Camden House.

Monday, October 27, 2014

Jack Zipes publishes translation of Grimms' first edition

Book Cover: Zipes' Brothers Grimm
Jack Zipes has published a new book, The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm: The Complete First Edition. It is the first translation into English of the Grimm's original collection, and the dark stories are not your children's fairy tales!

Monday, October 13, 2014

Juliette Brungs (Ph.D., 2013) working for Social Pedagogic Institute in Berlin

Juliette Brungs (Ph.D., 2013) is working as a Project Coordinator for the foundation SPI (Social Pedagogic Institute Walter May) in the project "Diversity-orientierte und Interkulturelle Kompetenz" (Diversity-Oriented and Intercultural Competence) in Berlin, developing and teaching workshops for state employees and smaller businesses on the topic.

She is continuing her academic work with the Postdoctoral and Doctoral Colloquium "The Aesthetic of Applied Theater" under the guidance of Professor Mathias Warstat at the Freie Universität Berlin.

Tuesday, October 7, 2014

Constantin Parvulescu (Ph.D., 2006) publishes book on Postwar Eastern European Cinema

Book Cover: Orphans of the East
Constantin Parvulescu (Ph.D., 2006) has written a book on postwar Eastern European film, Orphans of the East: Postwar Eastern European Cinema and the Revolutionary Subject, to be published by Indiana University Press in June 2015.

Andrew Patten defends dissertation

Andrew Patten successfully defended his dissertation, "All that is the Case: The Collection, Exhibition, and Practice of Weltliteratur," in September 2014.