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2011

Keighley McFarland and Katja Minitenko, two of our German Majors, receive undergraduate merit scholarships from the Institute of International Studies and have been accepted as members of the IIS Junior Scholars Program for Spring 2011.

Claire Kramsch receives the Kenneth W. Mildenberger Prize at the 2011 MLA Convention for "an outstanding scholarly book in the fields of language, culture, literacy, or literature with strong application to the teaching of languages other than English." Her book, The Multilingual Subject, was published by Oxford University Press in 2009. More here.

Anton Kaes receives the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize at the 2011 MLA Convention for "outstanding scholarly work on the linguistics or literatures of the Germanic languages." His book, Shell Shock Cinema: Weimar Culture and the Wounds of War, was published by Princeton University Press 2009. More here.

Ashwin Manthripragada is the recipient of a FLAS/AIIS Fellowship for India to study advanced Sanskrit in connection with his dissertation work.

Inez Hollander co-authors a Dutch for Reading Knowledge textbook with Christine van Baalen (Leiden University) and Frans Blom (Amsterdam University). The book will be brought out by John Benjamins (Amsterdam/Philadelphia).

Jason Kooiker publishes Swiss German Diglossia and the Classroom (New York: Peter Lang 2011)

Eric Savoth publishes "Outside Thought: Meillassoux, Uexküll, Peirce," Interdisciplinary Journal for Germanic Linguistics and Semiotic Analysis vol 16, 1, 2011.

Hans-Thies Lehmann is the Max Kade Distinguished Visiting Professor in the German Department in Spring 2011. Prof. Lehmann taught at the Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main until his retirement in 2010. He is the leading authority in contemporary German theater and performance. His book “Postdramatisches Theater” has been translated into many languages and counts as a key to understand present-day experimental theater that uses new media. In February/March he will teach the Compact Seminar on German Theatre since 1968.

Timothy Price publishes his dissertation The Leipzig ‘Heliand’ Manuscript Fragment (MS L): New Evidence concerning Luther, the Poet, and Ottonian Heritage.

Tonya Dewey publishes The Old Saxon Heliand: An Annotated English Translation (Edwin Mellen Press) with a foreword by Irmengard Rauch.

Irmengard Rauch publishes second revised edition of Gothic Language: Grammar, Genetic Provenance and Typology, Readings (New York: Peter Lang, 2011); "An Introduction to Old Frisian – Rolf H. Bremmer" NOWELE 60/61 (2011).

Suin Shin Roberts (Berkeley Ph.D. 1994, Indiana-Purdue University, Fort Wayne) publishes her dissertation, Language of Migration: Self- and Other- Perception of Korean Immigrants in Germany.

Mason Allred publishes "Pumping up Masculinity: The Initial Intervention and Lasting Legacy of Hans and Franz." The Journal of Popular Culture (forthcoming).

Claire Kramsch publishes "Theorizing translingual/transcultural competence," in G. Levine & A. Phipps (Eds.) Critical and Intercultural Theory and Language Pedagogy. Boston: Heinle, 2011; articles on "Language, culture, and context"; "Teaching culture and intercultural competence"; "Subjectivity," In Carol Chapelle (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics. Language and Culture. In James Simpson (Ed.) Routledge Handbook of Applied Linguistics; "Intercultural contact, hybridity and third space" (co-authored with Michiko Uryu) In Jane Jackson (ed.): Routledge Handbook on Intercultural Communication; "The symbolic dimensions of the intercultural. Language Teaching. Symbolische Kompetenz durch literarische Texte," in Fremdsprache Deutsch, Heft 44.

Winfried Kudszus publishes "Intercultural Communication: The Case of Psychoanalysis." Culture of Communication/Communication of Culture. Proceedings of the 10th World Congress of Semiotics, A Coruña 2009; "Der Othem des Absoluten: Johann Georg Hamann's Neue Apologie des Buchstaben 'h' und seine Aesthetica in nuce." Metamorphoses of the Absolute. Ed. Daina Teters.

Deniz Göktürk co-edits (with David Gramling, Anton Kaes and Andreas Langenohl) Transit Deutschland: Debatten zu Nation und Migration (Konstanz University Press/Fink Verlag).

Jeroen Dewulf publishes "Poetry of Switzerland" and "Poetry of the Low Countries" in The New Princeton Encyclopaedia of Poetry and Poetics. More here.

Nikolaus Euba is co-author with Prisca Augustyn (Berkeley Ph.D. 2000, Florida Atlantic University) of Stationen: Ein Kursbuch für die Mittelstufe (Jan 2011). More here.



2010

Yael Almog is the recipient of a fellowship at the Simon-Dubnow Institute forJewish History and Culture at Leipzig University for a
project on the role of the Hebrew language in the formation of Hermeneutics.

Azadeh Yamini-Hamedani becomes Assistant Professor of World Literature at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver.

Irmengard Rauch and Thomas Shannon organize the Berkeley Germanic Linguistics Roundtable of 2010, supported by the Max Kade Foundation and the UC Berkeley Center for German and European Studies, which featured forty-five faculty and graduate student presenters from England, France, Japan, Germany, Italy, Korea, Armenia, Sweden, Norway. Belgium, and the USA; fourteen presenters represented the Berkeley German Department.

Inez Hollander receives Foreign Language Travel Grant from UC Berkeley’s Institute of European Studies.   

David Gramling accepts a tenure track position in the German Department at the University of Arizona, Tucson.

Tonya Kim Dewey accepts a postdoctoral position in the Linguistics Department at the University of Bergen, Norway.

Chantelle Warner (Berkeley Ph.D., 2007, Assistant Professor at the University of Arizona) receives the Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA) Award for best article by a newcomer to the field of stylistics for 2009. The article was a revised version of one of her dissertation chapters (addressing immediacy effects, deixis and narrative); it was published in the journal Language and Literature.

Anton Kaes receives a Teaching Prize in Arts and Humanities

Martina Schuler is a Visiting Lecturer in the German Department. She studied German philology, early modern and modern German literature, and French at the University of Tübingen and wrote a dissertation on Goethe, "Novellistisches Erzählen in Goethes Romanen Die Wahlverwandtschaften und Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre oder die Entsagende." Before coming to Berkeley she was a Research Fellow at the University of Tübingen, working on a new edition of Nürnberger Fastnachtspiele. Ms. Schuler will teach German 123 (German Literature from 1800 to the Present) in spring 2011.

Five students receive their Ph.D.: Michael Huffmaster, Timothy Price, Sabrina Rahman, Aida Sakaluaskaite, Gabe Trop. Kudos! (See their dissertation topics.)

Nikolaus Euba directs the 7th annual DAAD-sponsored workshop "Deutsch als Fremdsprache in den USA: Grundzüge und Perspektiven," hosting 21 graduate students and junior faculty from all over the US and featuring guest lectures by UC Berkeley Professors Claire Kramsch and Richard Kern.

Priscilla Layne and Melissa Etzler co-edit Rebellion and Revolution: Defiance in German Language, History and Art. New Castle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Robin Ellis, Kristin Dickinson, and Priscilla Layne translate the plays Schwarze Jungfrauen (by Feridun Zaimoglu), Klassentreffen and Ferienlager (by the akademie der autodidakten lab I) for the Ballhaus Naunynstraße in Berlin.

Melissa Etzler is the recipient of the first Bernhard-Zeller-Stipendium, Deutsches Literaturarchiv, Marbach to work on a dissertation on W. G. Sebald.

Winfried Kudszus publishes "Before Opera in Bobrowski's Litauische Claviere." Before and After Music. Ed. Lina Navickaite-Martinelli (2010) [tr. into Lithuanian forthcoming].

Kurt Beals, editor of TRANSIT, announces a new issue of the Department’s Internet journal, containing essays by Eric Ames (Berkeley Ph.D., 1994) on Werner Herzog, et al.

Gabe Trop becomes Assistant Professor in the German Department of University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Mike Huffmaster becomes Visiting Professor at Marlboro College, Vermont.

Niklaus Largier publishes "Askese und Identität in Spätantike, Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit," in Askese und Identität in Spätantike, Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit. Eds. Werner Röcke and Julia Weitbrecht. Berlin, 2010. More here; "The Plasticity of the Soul: Mystical Darkness, Touch, and Aesthetic Experience." (Modern Language Notes 125 (2010): 536-551; More here.

Anton Kaes receives the 2010 GSA/DAAD book prize for the best book on German literature in 2009; he is also given the 2010 Limine Prize from the Silent Film Festival Udine, Italy, for the best book in Film scholarship published in 2009.

Jacob Haubenreich is awarded a DAAD research grant (which he declined) and a Fulbright research grant to Switzerland to work in the Rilke archives of the Swiss Literature Archive.

Karen Feldman is awarded an Alexander-von-Humboldt Research Felllowship for 2010/11.

Niklaus Largier is invited to be a Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin.

Deniz Göktürk is awarded a one-year fellowship for 2010-2011 at Kulturwissenschaftliches Kolleg Konstanz in conjunction with the Exzellenzcluster "Kulturelle Grundlagen der Integration."

Kurt Beals is the translator of Anja Utler's poetry book engulf – enkindle (Burnind Deck 2010). It will appear December 15, 2010 (Website). An excerpt also appeared in the magazine Two Lines. See a review.

Anton Kaes publishes "Illusions and Delusions: On Josef von Sternberg's The Last Command," in Josef von Sternberg: 3 Classic Silents (New York: Criterion); "Zwischen Parodie und Phantasmagorie: Das 'Paradies’ in Werner Herzogs Fata Morgana, in Claudia Benthien and Manuela Gerlof (eds.) Paradies: Topografien der Sehnsucht (Cologne: Böhlau Verlag, 2010); "The Return of the Undead: Weimar Cinema and the Great War," in Kathleen Canning et al. (eds.) Weimar Publics/Weimar Subjects: Rethinking the Political Culture of Germany in the 1920s (New York: Berghahn, 2010).

Jeroen Dewulf publishes Spirit of Resistance. Dutch Clandestine Literature during the Nazi Occupation (Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2010). More here. He also receives the 2010 Hellman Family Faculty Fund Award.

Deniz Göktürk co-edits (with Levent Soysal and ?pek Türeli) Orienting Istanbul: Cultural Capital of Europe? (London: Routledge, 2010). A Turkish edition is currently in preparation. She also publishes "Mobilität und Stillstand im Weltkino digital." Özkan Ezli (ed.) Kultur als Ereignis. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 2010: 15-45.

Paul Dobryden publishes "Good Germans, Humane Automobiles: Redeeming Technological Modernity—In Those Days" in Film and History 40.1 (Spring 2010).

Chenxi Tang publishes "Re-imagining World Order: From International Law to Romantic Poetics", in Deutsche Vierteljahresschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte 84 (2010),

Irmengard Rauch publishes "Translations of the Bible," in The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages. R. F. Bjork (ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, Spring 2010; "Exapted ‘oh’: How does It Fit into the Prosodic Hierarchy?" Vox Germanica, Stephen Harris et al. (eds.) Tucson, AZ: Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2010; she co-authored with graduate students Jeremy Bergerson, Carolyn Hawkshaw, Meredith Kolar, Chris Little, Joellyn Palomaki, Stephanie Peltner, Timothy Price, Michael St. Clair, Jason Whitt, Peter Woods, "BAG 10: Toward the Architecture of the Lie," Interdisciplinary Journal for Germanic Linguistics and Semiotic Analysis vol. 15, 1 (2010).

Karen Feldman publishes "The Temporal Aside: "Transzendentale Buffonerie" in Two Works of Novalis," The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory Volume 85 Issue 2 2010, pp. 142-155.



2009

Five students receive their Ph.D.: David Gramling, Dayton Henderson, Jason Kooiker, Robert Schechtman, Azadeh Yamini-Hamedani. Kudos! (See their dissertation topics.)

Claire Kramsch publishes The Multilingual Subject (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009). She also publishes "La circulation transfrontalière des valeurs dans un projet de recherche international," Le Français dans le Monde 46 (2009); "Grammar games and bilingual blends," PMLA May 2009.

Paul Dobryden is awarded a Center for German and European Studies/IES pre-dissertation fellowship.

Inez Hollander publishes Verstilde stemmen en verzwegen levens: Een Indische familiegeschiedenis (Amsterdam: Atlas). The book was included in the top 100 for consideration of the Dutch AKO Literature Prize. She also receives a Taalunie Research Grant to fund the research and writing of a Dutch for Reading Knowledge textbook.

Deniz Göktürk publishes "Postcolonial Amnesia? Taboo Memories and Kanaks with Cameras." Volker Langbehn, ed. German Colonialism, Visual Culture, and Modern Memory. London: Routledge, 2009: 278-301.

Winfried Kudszus publishes "Katastrophenmomente: Chayan Khoï, Sigmund Freud, Friedrich Nietzsche." Was die Aufmerksamkeit erregt. Ed. U. H. Peters; "Friedrich Nietzsche's Late Notes and Wilhelm Roux: Microlinguistic Performance and Microphysiology." Communication: Understanding/Misunderstanding. Ed. Eero Tarasti; "Chayan Khoï's Lost Worlds and Sigmund Freud's Übermensch Stream: On Salience and Catastrophe." Les Signes du Monde: Interculturalité et Globalisation. Eds. Bernard Lamizet & Louis Panier.

Karen Feldman publishes "De Man's Kant and Goebbels' Schiller: The Ideology of Reception," in MLN, Volume 124, Number 5, December 2009 (Comparative Literature Issue), pp. 1170-1187.

Anton Kaes publishes Shell Shock Cinema: Weimar Culture and the Wounds of War (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. 2009).

Jason Witt (Berkeley Ph.D. 2008, University of Manchester) publishes his dissertation Evidentiality and Perception Verbs in English and German (Bern: Peter Lang) 2009.

Gabriel Trop publishes "The Persistence of the Fragile World: Poetic Cognition in Hölderlin’s Poetological Writing and ‘Der Rhein’," Interdisciplinary Journal for Germanic Linguistics and Semiotic Analysis vol.14, 1 (2009)

Chenxi Tang is awarded an Alexander von Humboldt research fellowship for 2009-2010 to work on his current book project, "Imagining World Order: International Law and Literature in the Age of the Sovereign State, 1600-1900."