Anatoly Liberman receives Award for Outstanding Contributions to Graduate and Professional Teaching

Professor Anatoly Liberman has been selected in a university-wide competition to receive one of the Awards for Outstanding Contributions to Graduate and Professional Teaching!

Beth Kautz awarded Goethe-Institut stipend

Beth Kautz has been awarded a stipend to attend a 2-week seminar in Germany sponsored by the Goethe-Institut. She will be near Munich the first two weeks of August 2011 learning about "Blended Learning in Instruction and Continuing Education."

Paul Peterson receives Leifur Eiríksson Foundation Scholarship

Paul Peterson, Ph.D. student in our Germanic Medieval Studies track, has received the Leifur Eiríksson Foundation Scholarship for $25,000 to study and do research on Old Norse nicknames in Iceland the 2011-2012 academic year.

2012 Summer Course in Modern Icelandic

In May and June 2012, the Department of German, Scandinavian and Dutch will once again offer an intensive course in Modern Icelandic language, taking place for three weeks in Minneapolis and for three weeks in Reykjavik. Further information (course dates, program cost, application materials) is available here: http://gsd.umn.edu/language/icelandic.html

Anatoly Liberman awarded MLA Prize for a Distinguished Bibliography

Congratulations to Anatoly Liberman, whose book, A Bibliography of English Etymology: Sources and Word List, has been designated winner of the MLA Prize for a Distinguished Bibliography.

Faculty Receive Imagine Fund Grants

We are proud to announce the five of our faculty members have received Imagine Funds Awards for 2011-12:
Ruth-Ellen Joeres
Anatoly Liberman
Rick McCormick
Charlotte Melin
Monika Zagar
The competitive, University-wide Imagine Fund Annual Faculty Awards support innovative research in the arts, design, and humanities.

Evelyn Firchow awarded Humboldt grant

Evelyn Firchow has been awarded a grant from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation to continue work on a research project in the English Philology Institute at the University of Munich this spring. The grant will enable her to work toward completion of an edition devoted to her English translation of Gottfried von Strassburg's Middle High German epic "Tristan und Isolde."