Moritz Meutzner awarded Joss Fellowship

Moritz Meutzner is the recipient of this year's Joss Fellowship from the Center for Jewish Studies. He will use the funds to support his research in Marbach, Germany, in summer 2016.

Karsten Olson receives dissertation fellowship

Karsten Olson has received a dissertation fellowship from the Mellon Consortium for the Study of the Premodern World for Spring 2016.

Chris Burwick defends dissertation

Chris Burwick successfully defended his dissertation, entitled "An Exploration of Materiality in Josef Winkler's Narrative Structures," on September 11, 2015.

Nichole Neuman accepts adjunct instructor position

Nichole Neuman has accepted the position of adjunct instructor of German in the Department of Modern Languages at the University of St. Thomas, starting in Fall 2015.

Kiley Kost wins GSD’s Graduate Teaching Award

Kiley Kost has won GSD’s Graduate Teaching Award for excellence in teaching in the 2014-15 academic year.

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.

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.

Paul Peterson defends dissertation

Paul Peterson has successfully defended his dissertation, “Nicknames in Old Icelandic Literature,” in April 2015.

Meyer Weinshel awarded FLAS Fellowship

Meyer Weinshel has been awarded a Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship to study Yiddish at the Institute for Jewish Research (YIVO) in New York City in Summer 2015.

Carrie Collenberg-Gonzalez (Ph.D., 2011) accepts Assistant Professor position

Carrie Collenberg-Gonzalez (Ph.D., 2011) has accepted the position of Assistant Professor of German at Portland State University.

Issac Schendel accepts visiting lecturer position

Issac Schendel has accepted a position as visiting lecturer at Karlsruher Institut für Technologie in Germany. He will teach content courses on Medieval German poetry in Spring 2015.

Valentine Pakis (Ph.D, 2008) accepts position as Assistant Professor and Drafting Editor of the Dictionary of Old English

Valentine Pakis (Ph.D, 2008) has accepted a position at the University of Toronto as a new Assistant Professor of Medieval Studies, where he will teach Old Norse and Gothic and serve as Drafting Editor of the Dictionary of Old English.
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Moritz Meutzner awarded Jerome Joss Award

Moritz Meutzner has been awarded the 2015 Jerome Joss Award from the Center for Jewish Studies for his project on "Erich Auerbach in Istanbul."

Andrew Patten (Ph.D, 2014) receives postdoc

Andrew Patten (Ph.D, 2014) has received a two-year, full-time postdoc fellowship at the Universität Erfurt, to begin January 2015. He will be working in the Laborgruppe "Kulturtechniken": Ein interdisziplinäres Projekt der Geschichts-, Literatur- und Medienwissenschaft in Erfurt und Weimar (Laboratory for "Cultural Techniques:" An Interdisciplinary Collaboration between History, Literature, and Media Studies in Erfurt and Weimar).

German Graduate Seminar travels to Berlin

In connection with the CGES collaborative and graduate seminar Leslie Morris and Rick McCormick have organized and are teaching in Fall 2014, "Place & Displacement: Transnational German-Jewish Culture" (GER 8300), Leslie, Rick, and 6 of the 8 graduate students enrolled in the seminar are off to Berlin this week.

In Berlin, they will be joined by their partner seminar group that is also part of the CGES collaborative, taught by co-organizer Ofer Ashkenazi, History and the School of Arts at the Hebrew University. Ofer's seminar and the seminar at Minnesota have been meeting together via interactive video during the semester, but now they will meet without the media interface in Berlin. Ofer is bringing all 10 of his graduate students to Berlin.

Besides attending the opening of the international DAAD conference, "Wendepunkte," attending a session of a conference at the Jewish Museum, "Contemporary Jewish Life in a Global Modernity," and visiting such sites of German-Jewish life in Berlin as das Bayrische Viertel, the group will gather together at the Rosa-Luxemburg Stiftung on Sunday for a colloquium at which the students from both universities will make presentations on the research topics they have each chosen for their seminar papers.

Leslie, Ofer, and Rick want to thank the following organizations for their support of this collaborative:

The Center for German & European Studies, the Center for Jewish Studies, and the Department of German, Scandinavian & Dutch at the University of Minnesota; Daat-Hamakom: Center for the Study of Modern Jewish Cultures of Place--supported by the I-CORE Program of the Planning and Budgeting Committee and The Israel Science Foundation; the Richard Koebner-Minerva Center for German History and the DAAD Center for German Studies at the Hebrew University.

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

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.

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.

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

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.