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May 7, 2013

Congratulations!

Congratulations are in order!

Tim August has been awarded with the Edward Said Memorial Summer Language Fellowship 2013

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Shradha Ghale has been awarded with the Edward Said Memorial Summer Language Fellowship 2013

And

Akshya Saxena has been awarded with the Edward Said Memorial Summer Language Fellowship 2013


Best wishes for a rewarding and productive summer!

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New Chair Announced!

I'm writing to announce that Cesare Casarino has now formally accepted the position as Chair of the Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature.

Congratulations and thanks are both in order for Cesare. We look forward with gratitude, confidence, and anticipation, to your leadership over the next three years.

On behalf of all of us, may I offer our support and best wishes.

Cheers,

John Archer

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April 29, 2013

Congratulations!

Congratulations to Niels Niessen who has been awarded a Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship from the University of Minnesota for 2012-2013

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Congratulations!

Congratulations are in order!

EMILY FEDORUK has been awarded with the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellowship by the University of Minnesota Graduate School 2013-2014

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AKSHYA SAXENA has been awarded with the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellowship by the University of Minnesota Graduate School 2013-2014


Best wishes for a rewarding and productive fellowship!

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April 19, 2013

Congratulations

A congratulations is in order to CSCL Major Matthew Laska who has been awarded a Selmer Birkelo Scholarship by the College of Liberal Arts.

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Congratulations

Congratulations are in order!

Andrea Gyenge has been awarded a Hella Mears Graduate Fellowship by the Center for German and East European Studies

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Marla Zubel has been awarded a Summer Research Fellowship by the Center for Austrian Studies


Best wishes for a rewarding and productive fellowship tenure!

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December 13, 2012

Jochen Schulte-Sasse, 1940-2012

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It is with great sadness and a considerable sense of loss that we convey the passing of our colleague Professor Jochen Schulte-Sasse on 12 December 2012. His loss is deeply felt by students and colleagues alike. A memorial service has been planned for Saturday, March 9 at 4:00 PM in the Macalester chapel.

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October 2, 2012

Childhood and Youth Studies Research Collaborative

The Childhood and Youth Studies Collaborative critically looks at the socio-historical constructions of children and transitions to adulthood, child-parent relations, and modern discourses and representations of childhood and adolescence.

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July 31, 2012

Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature

The Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota, invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track position beginning fall semester 2013. As a theoretically-oriented, comparatist, interdisciplinary department whose research and teaching span word/image/sound, we seek scholars with specific training in, and who work across, two or more of these areas.

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June 26, 2012

Congratulations to Professors Tim Brennan and John Archer

Congratulations to Professor Tim Brennan, who will deliver two keynote addresses this fall: at the "Crafts of World Literature" conference at Oxford in September, and at the "Negative Cosmopolitanism" conference in Edmonton in October.

Also to Professor John Archer, who will deliver a keynote address at the meeting of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments in Portland in October.

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November 18, 2011

Congratulations to John Mowitt! Just published: Radio: Essays in Bad Reception

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November 14, 2011

John Berryman, who was a professor in the Humanities Program before it became part of CSCL

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November 4, 2011

Facing Ethics: Narrative and Recognition from George Eliot to Judith Butler

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October 24, 2011

CSCL Grad honored with Presidental Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers

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October 10, 2011

CSCL Professors Alice Lovejoy and John Mowitt introduce Films as part of the "And Yet She Moves..." at the Walker Art Center

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August 25, 2011

Two new books from CSCL faculty members, Shaden Tageldin and John Mowitt

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August 12, 2011

Filmmaker and producer Martin "Jim" Bovey Jr. of Wayzata, MN, has generously donated a Bell & Howell 16mm projector and accessories to the CSCL department

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July 11, 2011

CSCL Professor John Mowitt delivering the Annual Dean's Distinguished Lecture at the University of the Western Cape

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April 13, 2011

CSCL Associate Professor, Hisham Bizri at the Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival

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June 30, 2010

We welcome Verena Mund as the new Film Studies Coordinator for the College of Liberal Arts.

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CSCL welcomes Assistant Professor Alice Lovejoy

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