Wednesday, May 8, 2013
Adelia Chrysler and Isaac Schendel Awarded FLAS Fellowships
Congratulations to Adelia Chrysler and Isaac Schendel, who have each been awarded a Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship.
Adelia Chrysler will study Yiddish in Summer 2013 at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in New York.
Isaac Schendel will study Norwegian here at the University of Minnesota in the academic year 2013-14.
Juliette Brungs, Marnie Christensen, and Adelia Chrysler win awards from the Center for Jewish Studies
Congratulations to Juliette Brungs, Marnie Christensen, and Adelia Chrysler, who have each been awarded the Theresa and Nathan Berman Graduate Fellowship in Jewish Studies & Leo and Lillian Gross Scholarship in Jewish Studies for Summer 2013. This fellowship provides support to full-time graduate students doing research in an area of Jewish Studies and who demonstrate potential in their field.
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Adam Oberlin (Ph.D., 2012) to be Director of the German Program at The Linsly School
Adam Oberlin (Ph.D., 2012) has accepted a position as a Foreign Language Teacher (Director of the German Program) at The Linsly School in Wheeling, West Virginia, a traditional co-ed preparatory school, starting Fall 2013.
Thursday, March 28, 2013
Carrie Collenberg-Gonzalez (Ph.D., 2011) Accepts Tenure-Track Position
Carrie Collenberg-Gonzalez (Ph.D., 2011) has accepted a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor of German at Longwood University starting Fall 2013.
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Alumni Speak at GSD Career Panels
Twelve alumni and spoke on three panels at the GSD Career Panels Event on Tuesday, February 26, 2013. This event gave undergraduates a chance to hear from professionals with educational backgrounds in German, Scandinavian, and/or Dutch studies who work in a variety of fields.
We'd like to extend a big "Thank You!" to all participants for making this event a smashing success!
Business Career Panel
Liz Stopka, moderator
McKenzie Stupica, coordinator
- Cheryl Powers, Founder and President, The Research Edge
- Marcel Derosier, Director, Enterprise Architect, Ameriprise Financial
- Lubbert Kruizenga, President of the German-American Chamber of Commerce, VP of Finance for Americas for SmartTrac Technology
- Phyllis Dozier, Vice President, Talent Development United Health Group
Government and non-profit Career Panel
Heather Lamb, moderator
Felicia Stevens, coordinator
- Elizabeth Rose, Key Account Manager at the Better Business Bureau
- Ellen Ewald, Currently Partner at Tysvar and former Director of Higher Education and Research at the Honorary Norwegian Consulate General
- Sue Wickham, Director of Human Resources, Department of Administration, State of Minnesota
- Patrick Scully, Founder of Patrick's Cabaret and ESL teacher
Professionals (law, medicine, environmental science)
Maddie Hoover, moderator
Evan Welo, coordinator
- Anders Folk, Lawyer, Leonard, Street and Deinard, and former assistant U.S. district attorney and commissioned officer in the U.S. Marine Corps
- Donn Dexter, Chief Medical Officer, Mayo Clinic Health System WI-MN Region, neurologist
- Carol Stark, Family practice physician, Entira Family Clinics
- Devin Zeller, Consultant, Consultant at The Forest Stewardship Council, former Senior Analyst at The Walt Disney Company, Sustainability Analyst at Calvert
Friday, January 25, 2013
Kalani Michell Awarded Leonard Memorial Fellowship in Film Study
Kalani Michell has been awarded the Harold Leonard Memorial Fellowship in Film Study for the 2013-14 academic year.
The Leonard Fellowship in Film Study provides stipend support for an academic year of well-defined research or study in which film history, criticism, theory, or aesthetics is the major focus of the research.
The Leonard Fellowship in Film Study provides stipend support for an academic year of well-defined research or study in which film history, criticism, theory, or aesthetics is the major focus of the research.
Friday, December 14, 2012
Jochen Schulte-Sasse: In Memoriam
Our colleague Jochen Schulte-Sasse, who retired in May 2012, passed away on Wednesday, December 12, 2012 at the age of 72. He had been ill for several years. He was with his family in the San Francisco area when he passed.
Born in Salzgitter, Germany, Jochen received his Ph.D. in 1968 from the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany, where he would complete his Habilitiation in 1976. He first came to the University of Minnesota already in 1968-69 to teach on an exchange. In 1978 he was hired by what was then the German Department (now GSD); within a year he was promoted to full Professor. He soon was teaching for both German and the Department of Comparative Literature (now the Department of Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature, or CSCL); at one point he served as chair of Comparative Literature. For both departments, his teaching, like his scholarship, covered a wide range of subjects in German and European literary, aesthetic, and cultural theory and history: from Kant, Schiller, and German Romanticism to Lacan, poststructuralism, and the postmodern.
An internationally recognized scholar of German cultural and intellectual history, he authored seven books on literary theory and criticism, and he helped establish Minnesota as a center for innovative research in German Studies and Comparative Literature. As co-editor of the University of Minnesota Press's acclaimed series, "The Theory and History of Literature," he introduced many European literary and cultural theorists to the American academy. He co-founded the journal Cultural Critique. His devotion to social justice and independent thinking endeared him to his students, who honored him with a colloquium in 2011 titled "Felix Aestheticus," the happy aesthetic practitioner.
He will be sorely missed by his colleagues at the University of Minnesota and by generations of students he taught and mentored.
A memorial service has been planned for Saturday, March 9 at 4:00 PM in the Macalester chapel.
Contributions to the the Jochen Schulte-Sasse Fellowship in German Studies may go to the University of Minnesota Foundation, C-M 3854, P.O. Box 70870, St. Paul, MN 55170.
More information: http://www.giving.umn.edu/giving_opps/outright_gifts/index.html.
Obituaries:
German Quarterly: In Memoriam: Jochen Schulte-Sasse (1940-2012) (PDF)
Sueddeutsche Zeitung: Von Kitsch zu Kant
Frankfurter Allgemeine: Zum Tod von Jochen Schulte-Sasse Aufklärung als Inspiration
University of Minnesota Press: Jochen Schulte-Sasse, renowned intellectual, dies at 72
Star Tribune:
Revierpassagen: Damals in Bochum - eine Erinnerung zum Tod des Germanisten Jochen Schulte-Sasse
Jochen discussed many aspects of his life and career in this 2003 interview for the GSD Magazine: http://www.gsd.umn.edu/news/mag2003Schulte-Sasse.html.
Born in Salzgitter, Germany, Jochen received his Ph.D. in 1968 from the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany, where he would complete his Habilitiation in 1976. He first came to the University of Minnesota already in 1968-69 to teach on an exchange. In 1978 he was hired by what was then the German Department (now GSD); within a year he was promoted to full Professor. He soon was teaching for both German and the Department of Comparative Literature (now the Department of Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature, or CSCL); at one point he served as chair of Comparative Literature. For both departments, his teaching, like his scholarship, covered a wide range of subjects in German and European literary, aesthetic, and cultural theory and history: from Kant, Schiller, and German Romanticism to Lacan, poststructuralism, and the postmodern.
An internationally recognized scholar of German cultural and intellectual history, he authored seven books on literary theory and criticism, and he helped establish Minnesota as a center for innovative research in German Studies and Comparative Literature. As co-editor of the University of Minnesota Press's acclaimed series, "The Theory and History of Literature," he introduced many European literary and cultural theorists to the American academy. He co-founded the journal Cultural Critique. His devotion to social justice and independent thinking endeared him to his students, who honored him with a colloquium in 2011 titled "Felix Aestheticus," the happy aesthetic practitioner.
He will be sorely missed by his colleagues at the University of Minnesota and by generations of students he taught and mentored.
A memorial service has been planned for Saturday, March 9 at 4:00 PM in the Macalester chapel.
Contributions to the the Jochen Schulte-Sasse Fellowship in German Studies may go to the University of Minnesota Foundation, C-M 3854, P.O. Box 70870, St. Paul, MN 55170.
More information: http://www.giving.umn.edu/giving_opps/outright_gifts/index.html.
Obituaries:
German Quarterly: In Memoriam: Jochen Schulte-Sasse (1940-2012) (PDF)
Sueddeutsche Zeitung: Von Kitsch zu Kant
Frankfurter Allgemeine: Zum Tod von Jochen Schulte-Sasse Aufklärung als Inspiration
University of Minnesota Press: Jochen Schulte-Sasse, renowned intellectual, dies at 72
Star Tribune:
Revierpassagen: Damals in Bochum - eine Erinnerung zum Tod des Germanisten Jochen Schulte-Sasse
Jochen discussed many aspects of his life and career in this 2003 interview for the GSD Magazine: http://www.gsd.umn.edu/news/mag2003Schulte-Sasse.html.
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