New website highlights student work from Ger 3610

A new website has been launched to highlight student work from DAAD Prof. Hilde Hoffmann's Spring 2014 German course "Pleasure & Distraction: Urban Entertainment Culture around 1900."

The first part of the undergraduate seminar focused on the cultural history of European metropolises near the turn of the century (1880-1930) through works from theorists including Walter Benjamin, Siegfried Krakauer, and Georg Simmel.

In the second part of the seminar, the class explored historic spaces of distraction in the Twin Cities in weekly field trips. Students presented their research papers on site.

The class learned a lot about Minneapolis and St Paul, culture theory, modernity, capitalism, and art.

Hover over the images at the top of the homepage to trace where the students located their projects and read more about their research.

"Pleasure & Distraction" Homepage

Moritz Meutzner awarded research support from Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach

Moritz Meutzner has received a stipend from the Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach (the German Literature Archive in Marbach) to support his research on German-Jewish exile in Turkey in Summer 2015.

Chris Burwick accepts visiting lecturer position

Chris Burwick has accepted a position as a visiting lecturer at Scripps College for the academic year 2015-16.

Grace Kroeger awarded CIS Scholarship

Lynn Strom, German teacher
at Watertown-Mayer High School,
and Grace Kroeger,
CIS scholarship winner
at the CIS Field Day on April 22

 

Grace Kroeger, of Watertown-Mayer High School, is the recipient of a four-year College in the Schools Scholarship from the University of Minnesota’s College of Liberal Arts. She will begin her studies in the GSD Department in Fall 2015.

The CLA Dean's Scholar - College in the Schools German Award provides $3,000 per year for up to four years. Students who are previous participants in the College in the Schools (CIS) German program and who plan to major in German are considered based on high school performance, test scores, indicated financial need, and teacher recommendation. One of the requirements for keeping the award for the full four years is declaring and remaining a German major in CLA.

Constantin Parvulescu (Ph.D, 2006) publishes book and accepts new position

Orphans of the East: Postwar Eastern European Cinema and the Revolutionary Subject, a book on postwar Eastern European film by Constantin Parvulescu (Ph.D, 2006), has been published by Indiana University Press.

Additionally, he has accepted new position as research fellow at the Institute for Culture and Society at the University of Navarra, Spain, to start in September 2015.

He is also a visiting lecturer in critical thinking in the Department of Contextual Studies at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland.

Sonja Fritzsche (Ph.D., 2001) named Chair of the Linguistics & Germanic, Slavic, Asian and African Languages Department at Michigan State University

Sonja Fritzsche (Ph.D., 2001) has been named Chair of the Linguistics & Germanic, Slavic, Asian and African Languages Department at Michigan State University.