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.

GSD to host the Dutch Summer Institute in 2010

Kyle Schiefelbein (B.A., German Studies, 2003)

Schiefelbein is currently a doctoral student in liturgical studies and theology at Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, CA. He presented a paper entitled "The Experience of Grace in the Church: Tillich and Rahner on Sacrament" to the "Tillich, Church, and Society in 20th Century Germany" section of the North American Paul Tillich Society annual meeting, held during the 2009 American Academy of Religion annual meeting in Montreal.