Charlotte Melin editing volume on Foreign Language Teaching and the Environment for the MLA

Charlotte Melin is editing a volume in the Modern Language Association's series "Teaching Languages, Literatures, and Cultures," under the title Foreign Language Teaching and the Environment: Theory, Curricula, Institutional Structures.

Jacqueline Listemaa (M.A., 2013) awarded SWEA Scholarship

Jacqueline Listemaa (M.A., 2013) was awarded the Swedish Women's Educational Association (SWEA) Minnesota Scholarship to support her Summer 2014 visit to Finland, where she visited the Åland Islands and Helsinki to gather and compile materials about the Swedish-speaking population in Finland.

These materials will be available for use in GSD's Swedish classes to introduce students to the Swedish-speaking population and culture in Finland.

Kalani Michell awarded Fulbright Grant

Kalani Michell has received a Fulbright Award in the Young American Journalist Program for 2014-15. She will spend the academic year in Berlin, Germany, completing archival research on expanded cinematic practices and contexts between the 1960s/70s and today. Her dissertation project addresses the question, "How do we relocate cinema in the digital age, when film is no longer simply to be found in movie theaters?"

James Parente named Director of the DAAD Center for German and European Studies

James A. Parente, Jr., has been named the new Director of the University of Minnesota's DAAD Center for German and European Studies (CGES).

Paul Peterson to teach Swedish and German at Augustana College

Paul Peterson has accepted a two year position beginning in Fall 2014 as a teaching fellow in Swedish and German at Augustana College (Rock Island, IL) in the Department of World Languages, Literature, and Culture.

Adelia Chrysler and Moritz Meutzner win awards from the Center of Jewish Studies

Adelia Chrysler and Moritz Meutzner are each recipients of the Theresa and Nathan Berman Graduate Fellowship in Jewish Studies and the Leo and Lillian Gross Scholarship in Jewish Studies and used the funding to support their research during Summer 2014.

Christine Allen elected to Phi Beta Kappa

Christine Allen, a graduating senior with a dual degree in German Studies and Animal Science, has been elected to membership in Phi Beta Kappa by the Alpha Chapter of the University of Minnesota.