Anatoly Liberman awarded MLA Prize for a Distinguished Bibliography

Congratulations to Anatoly Liberman, whose book, A Bibliography of English Etymology: Sources and Word List, has been designated winner of the MLA Prize for a Distinguished Bibliography.

Faculty Receive Imagine Fund Grants

We are proud to announce the five of our faculty members have received Imagine Funds Awards for 2011-12:
Ruth-Ellen Joeres
Anatoly Liberman
Rick McCormick
Charlotte Melin
Monika Zagar
The competitive, University-wide Imagine Fund Annual Faculty Awards support innovative research in the arts, design, and humanities.

Evelyn Firchow awarded Humboldt grant

Evelyn Firchow has been awarded a grant from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation to continue work on a research project in the English Philology Institute at the University of Munich this spring. The grant will enable her to work toward completion of an edition devoted to her English translation of Gottfried von Strassburg's Middle High German epic "Tristan und Isolde."

Matthias Rothe joins faculty

We are very pleased to welcome Associate Professor Matthias Rothe to our faculty.

Monika Zagar promoted

Monika Zagar has been promoted from Associate Professor to Professor. Congratulations!

Ashley Olstad awarded a Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship

Ashley Olstad has been awarded a Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship by the University of Minnesota Graduate School, for the academic year 2010-11. This fellowship, awarded in a University-wide competition, offers one year of support to an advanced graduate student researching and writing her dissertations.

Impostors, Impersonation, and Passing: Graduate Student Conference March 26-27

"Impostors, Impersonation and Passing," a conference organized by the graduate students in the Department of German, Scandinavian and Dutch, will take place Friday and Saturday, March 26-27, on the University of Minnesota campus. Friday evening, a dinner and reception will accompany the keynote address, "Kleist: Spy Writing," by Tamar Abramov. Panel discussions run Saturday morning and afternoon. The full schedule includes event locations, paper titles, and names of participants.

Charlotte Melin receives Grant-in-Aid

Charlotte Melin has been awarded a Grant-in-Aid of Research, Artistry, and Scholarship to support her current research project, "Frauenlyrik unserer Zeit (1907): The Lost Anthology of Women's Poetry."

Monika Zagar's book is published

Monika Zagar, associate professor of Scandinavian in GSD, has recently had published her book, Knut Hamsun: The Dark Side of Literary Brilliance, in the series New Directions in Scandinavian Studies from University of Washington Press.