Lena Norrman receives CLA Outstanding Service Award

Swedish lecturer Lena Norrman has received an Outstanding Service Award from the College of Liberal Arts for her dedication to teaching, service, and research. Her book, Viking Women: The Narrative Voice in Woven Tapestries, was published by Cambria Press in fall 2008.

Tim Malchow (Ph.D., German, 2003)

Tim continues as assistant professor of foreign languages and literatures at Valparaiso University (Indiana) and has forthcoming publications on Günter Grass.

Evelyn Meyer (Ph.D. Germanic Medieval Studies, 2003)

She was awarded a Mellon Summer Grant from St. Louis University (Missouri) for research at the Munich Bayrische Staatsbibliothek.

Lorna Sopcak (Ph.D. German, 1999)

She earned tenure and promotion at Ripon College (Wisconsin).

Sydney Norton (Ph.D., German 1998)

She coauthored the exhibition catalogue The Immediate Touch: German, Austrian, and Swiss Drawings from Stain Louis Collections 1946-2007, published by the St. Louis Art Museum (2008).

Rasma Lazda (Ph.D., German, 1996)

She earned tenure and promotion at the University of Alabama, Birmingham.

Helga Thorson (Ph.D., German, 1996)

She is an associate professor at the University of Victoria (Canada).

Gary Baker (Ph.D., German, 1989)

He was installed to a five-year term as the inaugural William G. Bowen Distinguised Professor at Denison University in Granville, OH, where he is a faculty member in the Modern Languages Department.

Margrit Zinggeler (Ph.D., German, 1993)

Margrit, associate professor German at Eastern Michigan University, has published Grimmatik: German Grammar through the Magic of the Brother's Grimm Fairy Tales (2007).

Linda Schulte-Sasse (Ph.D., German, 1985)

She has been named the DeWitt Wallace Professor of German at Macalester College (St. Paul, MN).

Kyle Vraa (B.A., Scandinvian Languages, 1994, M.A., German, 1997)

Kyle, guitarist in the Twin Cities heavy metal band Metal Vengeance, released his first solo album, Ghost of Metal Past--Arisen (2007). Kyle lives in Circle Pines, Minnesota, with his wife, Renee, daughter, and son.

Jessica Mann (B.A., German, Global Studies, Journalism, 2008)

Jessica, who played Recha in 2008's German play, Nathan der Weise, will continue to research and intern in Berlin, Germany while on a Fulbright grant.

Michael Fenton (B.A., German Studies, 2005)

He has completed his M.A. thesis in international relations at the Freie Universität Berlin.

Pete Schult (B.A., German, Linguistics, 1994)

He is starting a master's program in library science at Syracuse University.

Juanita Rice (B.A., German, 1979)

She was honored with an Alumna of Notable Achievement award from the University of Minnesota in September 2008.

Patrick Scully (B.A., German, Biology, 1976)

Patrick has begun the master's program in teaching English as a Second Language at the University of Minnesota.

Helena Karlsson defends dissertation

Helena Karlsson successfully defended her dissertation, "Toward a Multiculturalism for the 21st Century: German and Scandinavian Literary Perspectives, 1990-2005."

Ray Wakefield honored with teaching award

Prof. Ray Wakefield has received the 2007-08 Arthur "Red" Motley Exemplary Teaching Award by the College of Liberal Arts. This major award recognizes the lasting contributions of faculty to undergraduate and graduate education and advising.

GSD graduate students work with Special Collections

Adrienne Damiani, Laura Versaput, and Michel van der Hoek created descriptions for 30 of the manuscripts in the Special Collections & Rare Books sections of the Andersen Library.

Awards for Michel van der Hoek and Anne Wallen

Michel van der Hoek has been awarded a 2008-09 Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship from the Graduate School to support work on his dissertation project "Palatalization in Germanic."
Anne Wallen is the recipient of both an American-Scandinavian Foundation Fellowship and a Fulbright grant, for dissertation research in Copenhagen during the academic year 2008-09.

Anatoly Liberman receives anonymous grant

Anatoly Liberman has received significant funding support for 2008-10 for his Encyclopedic Dictionary of English Etymology project, from an anonymous out-of-state donor.

Monika Zagar will be visiting international fellow

Monika Zagar will be a visiting international fellow in the HECUA (Higher Education Consortium for Urban Affairs) program "Divided States of Europe: Globalization and Inequalities in the New Europe," April 20-25, 2008.

Jenneke Oosterhoff granted professional development leave

Jenneke Oosterhoff was awarded a professional development leave for spring 2008 to complete grammar workbooks for basic and intermediate Dutch to be published in 2009.