Charlotte Melin has been promoted from Associate Professor to Professor. Congratulations!

Congratulations to Marnie Christensen, who has been awarded a Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship (DDF). The DD) program gives the University's most accomplished Ph.D. candidates an opportunity to devote full-time effort to dissertation research and writing during the fellowship year.

Congratulations to Isaac Schendel, who has been awarded a FLAS Fellowship to study Norwegian here at the University of Minnesota in the academic year 2013-14.

Congratulations to Juliette Brungs, Marnie Christensen, and Adelia Chrysler, who have each been awarded the Theresa and Nathan Berman Graduate Fellowship in Jewish Studies & Leo and Lillian Gross Scholarship in Jewish Studies. This fellowship provides support to full-time graduate students doing research in an area of Jewish Studies and who demonstrate potential in their field.

Adam Oberlin (Ph.D., 2012) has accepted a position as a Foreign Language Teacher (Director of the German Program) at The Linsly School in Wheeling, West Virginia, a traditional co-ed preparatory school.

Congratulations to Adelia Chrysler, who has been awarded a FLAS Fellowship to study Yiddish in Summer 2013 at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in New York.

Carrie Collenberg-Gonzalez (Ph.D., 2011) has accepted a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor of German at Longwood University.

Kalani Michell has been awarded the Harold Leonard Memorial Fellowship in Film Study for the 2013-14 academic year.

The Leonard Fellowship in Film Study provides stipend support for an academic year of well-defined research or study in which film history, criticism, theory, or aesthetics is the major focus of the research.

Rembert Hüser received the Outstanding Adviser Award for 2012 for his service as GSD's Director of Graduate Studies (2009-2012), given by the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly (GAPSA), in partnership with the Student Conflict Resolution Center and Office of Student Affairs.

Recipients of this award were nominated by their students and selected by a committee of students across our student body. 2012 was the inaugural year of the award.

https://sites.google.com/a/umn.edu/gapsa/newsletters

Keynote Speaker: Christian Hawkey, Pratt Institute

"We are two sternums, facing each other. Two ribcages. I do not know, at this hour, where the space my chest inhabits ends and his begins, where one language ends and another begins."

In Ventrakl, which he terms a collaboration with the Austrian poet Georg Trakl (1887-1914), Christian Hawkey stages an encounter across time, space, and language. Drawing on poetry, biography, and photographs, Hawkey seeks to reanimate Trakl, not simply by reading his words, but by translating them, by writing in the "between-voice" that is at once Trakl's and his own. As Hawkey describes it, the two poets sit across from one another in a "nearly empty" room, and out of this encounter, a text emerges. Liminal spaces figure prominently in the poems of the collection, and Hawkey deems the creation of such spaces essential to inspired writing, "[...] by clearing such a space, a linguistic utterance offers an invitation to enter, to collaborate, to fill or fill out the pointed-to space." Thus Hawkey's room is ultimately defined, not by its emptiness, but by possibility.

Spaces, whether physical or metaphysical, invite encounters among people, cultures, objects, and ideas. A face to face meeting can result in collaboration or altercation, connection or estrangement. Though the shaping of a space can help determine the nature of the encounter, as soon as an encounter occurs, the space is formed anew. Thus while encounters are ephemeral, spaces are constantly in flux across time, imbued with layers of meaning that bear the traces of previous encounters. This interplay between the site and the event is at the heart of our inquiry.

This conference will create a space for encounters across media and disciplines. We invite proposals for papers, creative works, or presentations in alternate formats. Questions to consider include, but are not limited to:

* How does interdisciplinarity create a space of encounter?
* Where does one find other "nearly empty" rooms: physical, textual, virtual, and ephemeral?
* How do perceptions of cultural norms or expectations in domestic and public spaces influence encounters?
* How do political, economic, or cultural values influence the potential for collaborations and altercations?
* How do museums and galleries stage encounters with an artist, an object, an idea?
* In what ways do stages or other performance spaces host encounters?
* How do translation and transcription shape various interactions with and interpretations of a text?
* How do objects allow for encounters that transcend time and space?
* How does one confront gender, sexuality, ethnicity, and religion in different types of spaces?

Please send abstracts of 250 words or less for 15-20 minute presentations to umn.gsd.conf@gmail.com by November 15, 2012.

Conference Website: https://sites.google.com/a/umn.edu/spaces-of-encounter/

Brian Kays (Scandinavian Languages & Finnish major) has received the Lilly Lorénzen Scholarship for 2012, which is awarded annually by the American Swedish Institute. The scholarship is awarded to Minnesota residents who plan to carry out scholarly or creative studies in Sweden. Kays will be studying at Umeå University.

http://www.asimn.org/programs-education/scholarships/scholarship-winners/brian-kays

Helga Thorson (Ph.D., 1996) was granted tenure at the University of Victoria, British Columbia (on Vancouver Island off the west coast of Canada) effective July 1, 2012. She is also the 2012 recipient for the Faculty of Humanities Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Mirko Hall (Ph.D., 2006) has earned tenure and been promoted to Associate Professor of German at Converse College.

Congratulations to Kelly Backstrom, who has received the 2012-2013 Holten Scholarship to pursue a B.. German Studies.

Congratulations to Zoe Bartholomew, who has received the 2012-2013 Jean Cameron & Robert Linde/Waller Scholarship to pursue a B.A. in Scandinavian Languages and Finnish.

Congratulations to Lindsay Lawton and Nichole Neuman, who have each been awarded a 2012 Summer Graduate Research Grant for conducting research related to Austria and/or Central Europe by the Center for Austrian Studies.

Congratulations to Juliette Brungs, who has been awarded the Center for Austrian Studies' 2012 Voices of Vienna Scholarship, established by Wilbur and Kathryn Keefer in honor of William E. Wright. The scholarship will be used for conducting research related to Austria and/or Central Europe.

Part-Time Lecturer or Teaching Specialist Positions
The College of Liberal Arts, Department of German, Scandinavian and Dutch

The Department of German, Scandinavian and Dutch maintains a pool of lecturers and teaching specialists to teach lower-division language skills courses in the less-commonly-taught languages offered in the Department (Dutch, Finnish, Icelandic, Norwegian and Swedish), that cannot be staffed by regular faculty or graduate teaching assistants. Openings of this kind occur for teaching evening, Summer Session, and day courses.

Duties include teaching undergraduate or graduate students in assigned course(s); holding office hours to assist and advise students; and participating in relevant departmental training and meetings. These positions are contingent upon student enrollment, performance, and availability of funding. Appointments can be for the academic year (8/27/12 to 5/26/13), semester-by-semester (fall 8/27/12 to 01/09/13, or spring 1/10/13 to 5/26/13) or for summer term. These positions are temporary and are usually part-time. Salaries for 2012-13 will be approximately $6,000 per five-credit course.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS: M.A. degree or foreign equivalent or ABD in the language of instruction, Foreign Language Education, or a related field. One year of teaching experience. Native or near native fluency in the language of instruction, as appropriate for the position. Demonstration of commitment to quality teaching and program development.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS: Two years of post-secondary teaching experience in the relevant language. Ph.D. degree or foreign equivalent in the language of instruction, Foreign Language Education, or a related field. A strong background (e.g., coursework, publications) in foreign language education, second language acquisition, or technology-enhanced teaching is preferred. Positive evaluations from students, peers and/or supervisors.

Applicants with an M.A. will be appointed as Teaching Specialists. Those with a Ph.D. will be appointed at the Lecturer level.

Application Instructions
Please apply online via the Employment System at
https://employment.umn.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=102968

Persons interested and who meet the required qualifications listed above should follow the application instructions to attach a letter of application (which includes how many sections per semester they are available to teach, maximum and minimum), a curriculum vitae, and two letters of recommendation. Student evaluations or other documentation of teaching quality may also be submitted if available.

Please submit Letters of intent and curriculum vitae. Other applicant materials can be uploaded as well or may be mailed directly to: Search Committee; German, Scandinavian and Dutch; University of Minnesota; 320 Folwell Hall; 9 Pleasant St. SE; Minneapolis, MN 55455-0124 or to pauli001@umn.edu

Courses may become available throughout the year, so applications will be accepted until April 15, 2013. Applications received by June 8, 2012 will be given priority for Fall Semester 2012, and those received by October 15, 2012 will be given priority for Spring Semester 2013.

The University of Minnesota is committed to the policy that all persons shall have equal access to its programs, facilities, and employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, age, marital status, disability, public assistance status, veteran status, or sexual orientation.

Lecturer or Teaching Specialist Positions in German
The College of Liberal Arts, Department of German, Scandinavian and Dutch

The Department of German, Scandinavian and Dutch maintains a pool of part-time lecturers and teaching specialists to teach lower-division German language skills courses or other German courses that cannot be staffed by regular faculty or graduate teaching assistants. Openings of this kind occur for teaching evening, Summer Session, and day courses.

Duties include teaching undergraduate or graduate students in assigned course(s); holding office hours to assist and advise students; and participating in relevant departmental training and meetings. These positions are contingent upon student enrollment, performance, and availability of funding. Appointments can be for the academic year (8/27/12 to 5/26/13), semester-by-semester (fall 8/27/12 to 01/09/13, or spring 1/10/13 to 5/26/13) or for summer term. These positions are temporary and are usually part-time. Salaries for 2012-13 will be approximately $6,000 per five-credit course.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS: M.A. degree or foreign equivalent or ABD in German, Foreign Language Education, or a related field. Two years of post secondary teaching experience in German. Native or near native fluency in German. Demonstration of commitment to quality teaching and program development.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS: Ph.D. degree or foreign equivalent in German, Foreign Language Education, or a related field. A strong background (e.g., coursework, publications) in foreign language education, second language acquisition, or technology-enhanced teaching is preferred. Positive evaluations from students, peers and/or supervisors.

Applicants with an M.A. will be appointed as Teaching Specialists. Those with a Ph.D. will be appointed at a Lecturer level.

Application Instructions
Please apply online via the Employment System at
https://employment.umn.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=103258 To apply for this position, click on "apply for this posting" and follow the instructions.

Persons interested and who meet the required qualifications listed above should follow the application instructions to attach a letter of application (which includes how many sections per semester they are available to teach, maximum and minimum), a curriculum vitae, two letters of recommendation, and student evaluations or other documentation of teaching quality. Please submit Letters of intent and curriculum vitae.

Other applicant materials can be uploaded as well or may be mailed directly to: Search Committee; German, Scandinavian and Dutch; University of Minnesota; 320 Folwell Hall; 9 Pleasant St. SE; Minneapolis, MN 55455-0124 or to pauli001@umn.edu

Courses may become available throughout the year, so applications will be accepted until April 15, 2013. Applications received by June 8, 2012 will be given priority for Fall Semester 2012, and those received by October 15, 2012 will be given priority for Spring Semester 2013.

The University of Minnesota is committed to the policy that all persons shall have equal access to its programs, facilities, and employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, age, marital status, disability, public assistance status, veteran status, or sexual orientation.

James Pasternak has successfully defended his dissertation, entitled "Apocalypse or Utopia: Representations of the Medieval in Nineteenth-Century German Historical Fiction."

GSD is awarding Lindsay Lawton a one-semester Weiss Fellowship to do dissertation research in Fall 2012.

Andrew Patten has been awarded a Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship for the 2012-13 academic year from the Graduate School.

Roger Skarsten has successfully defended his dissertation, entitled "Singing Arminius, Imagining a German Nation: Narratives of the 'liberator Germaniae' in Early Modern Europe."

Adam Oberlin has successfully defended his dissertation, entitled "The Style and Structure of Minnesang."

Congratulations to Hannah Miller, one of our German majors, who is a recipient of a 2012-13 CLA Selmer Birkelo Scholarship. To be considered for a Birkelo Scholarship, students must be majoring in fields relating to history, modern languages, classics, or the social and behavioral sciences, and must be nominated to the Office of the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs by their major department.

Michael Mullins (B.A., German, 1989) is one of the recipients of the 2012 President's Award for Outstanding Service. This award goes to faculty or staff who have performed exceptional service to the University, its schools, colleges, departments, and service units.

Sustainable Scandinavia Conference: Thinking Green in the Nordic Countries. This conference, organized by the Department of German, Scandinavian and Dutch with funding from the Committee on Nordic Studies Abroad, features sixteen speakers from both the Nordic countries, who each present their views on sustainability in Scandinavia and the United States.

Friday, May 4, 2012 9:30am-4:00pm
Saturday, May 5, 2012 9:30am-1:15pm
Rapson Hall 56

More information: https://events.umn.edu./020486

GSD graduate students to host the workshop "In Case of Trance, or Mit offenen Augen schlafen."

• Friday, April 27th - 10:00 am - 12:00 pm - Film Screening, Folwell 112
• Friday, April 27th - 5:30 - 7:00 pm - Lecture by Dr. Ute Holl "Trance Techniques, Cinema, and Cybernetics", Nicholson 135
• Saturday, April 28th - 10:00 - 11:30 am and 1:00 - 2:30 pm Workshop Sessions, Folwell 113

This workshop is in advance of the upcoming GSD Graduate Student Conference, to be held at the University of Minnesota, November 15-16, 2012.

More information: http://gsdtrance.wordpress.com/2012/04/10/workshop-schedule/

Because Professor Göran Stockenström will be retiring at the end of this semester, we are planning a reception in his honor that will acknowledge his career as a scholar and teacher in general, and will acknowledge specifically his work on August Strindberg. We want especially to celebrate the new three-volume anthology on Strindberg on which he has worked and which is about to appear in Sweden, timed to commemorate the centenary of Strindberg's death.

Our colleague Professor Poul Houe has generously offered to present a paper (approximately 20 min. in length), titled: "Was August Strindberg a Humanist? Göran Stockenström Is!"

More information: https://events.umn.edu/020533.

Evelyn Meyer (Ph.D., 2003) will receive tenure and promotion to the rank of Associate Professor in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages at Saint Louis University, as of July 1, 2012. Additionally, she has been awarded a sabbatical leave and will be spending the 2012-13 academic year in Germany.

Congratulations to Esther Edelmann and Meagan Tripp, who have been each been awarded a Visiting Fellowship in the German and Romance Languages and Literatures Department at the Johns Hopkins University for 2012-2013.

Matthias Rothe has been invited to be a "Gastwissenschaftler" (fellow) in February 2013 at the "Center for Literary and Cultural Research" Berlin. He will receive a research grant and can make use of all their facilities in the frame of his book project on eighteenth century moral philosophies and the role of violence in the conceptions of civil society.
More information: http://www.zfl-berlin.org/zfl-english.html.

Tom David has successfully defended his dissertation, entitled "Interrogating Utopia: The Science Fiction of the German Democratic Republic in an Age of Globalization."

Arsena Ianeva-Lockney has been awarded a DAAD grant to take 12 graduate or advanced undergraduate students of German on a tour of Germany from June 3-13, 2012 on the theme of "Communication and Innovation." Students will be responsible for their transportation costs, but room and board are provided. Interested students should contact Arsena Ianeva-Lockney at ianev001@umn.edu. Deadline: March 26, 2012.

The Immigration History Research Center will honor Göran Stockenström at its annual "Milestones and Merriment" appreciation event. Prof. Stockenström will receive a Career Achievement Award for his many years of contributions to the field of immigration history. The IHRC invites Prof. Stockenström's former students and colleagues to join them in honoring him, along with the other awardees at the event, which will be on Wednesday, March 7 from 4:30 until 7:00pm in 120 Anderson Library.
More information: https://events.umn.edu/019245.

Anne Wallen has successfully defended her dissertation, entitled "The Philosophic Game: 18th-Century Masquerade in German and Danish Literature and Culture."

Congratulations to Adam Oberlin and Beth Kautz, whose presentation at the October 2011 MCTLC (Minnesota Council on the Teaching of Language and Culture) conference was voted the "Best of Minnesota." Beth and Adam introduced teaching materials from the "Green German Project", developed in summer 2011 and funded by a Title VI / CARLA grant. With this "Best of Minnesota" award, they have been invited to present at the Central States Conference in Milwaukee in March 2012.

Charlotte Melin has been awarded a mini grant through the Institute on the Environment's Fall 2011 Mini Grant competition to support cross-disciplinary collaboration between the language departments and colleagues in other units working to develop environmental education that will culminate in a showcase event, "Language / Environment / Media," to be held in April 2012.

Lena Norrman has been elected to the American Swedish Institute's Board of Trustees.

Beth Kautz has been promoted from an Associate Educational Specialist to a full Educational Specialist.

Adam Oberlin in Germanic Studies has been awarded a one-year Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellowship Award, to support his research with the host center, the Center for Medieval Studies, to begin fall 2011.

Madeline Estes has been selected to participate in the Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange for Young Professionals (CBYX), a year-long, federally-funded fellowship for study and work in Germany. Ms. Estes was selected as one of 75 participants (from more than 500 applicants) for this unique fellowship program. Since 1984, over 1,500 Americans have been awarded this opportunity to gain cultural, theoretical, and practical work experience in Germany, and Ms. Estes will be participating in the 28th year of the CBYX program (2011-2012).

While in Germany on CBYX, Ms. Estes will attend a two-month intensive German language course, study at a German university or professional school for four months, and complete a five-month internship with a German company in her career field. Participants are placed throughout Germany, and have the opportunity to learn about everyday German life from a variety of perspectives.

Information on the CBXY program can be found here: http://www.cbyx.info/.

Nora Pittis, who is finishing her first year of the M.A. in the German track, has been awarded a Center for Austrian Studies Summer 2011 Research Fellowship for $4,000. She will be working in the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale on a project about mixed-marriages between Jews and non-Jews in Austria and Czechoslovakia under German occupation.

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 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, 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.

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

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.

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 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."

We are very pleased to welcome Associate Professor Matthias Rothe to our faculty.

Monika Zagar has been promoted from Associate Professor to Professor. Congratulations!

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," 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 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, 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.

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.

Beth Kautz has been elected president of the Minnesota chapter of the American Association of Teachers of German.

The German-American Institute in St. Paul will host a presentation by GSD professor emeritus Jack Zipes on the fairy tales written by Dada artist Kurt Schwitters during the 1920s and 1930s. Zipes is a noted expert on fairy tales, and his translation of Schwitters's texts, Lucky Hans and Other Merz Fairy Tales, was published earlier this year by Princeton University Press.
7:00pm
Free and open to the public
301 Summit Avenue, St. Paul
Co-sponsored by the Department of German, Scandinavian and Dutch
For more information, please visit the website of the German-American Institute.

Faculty Position
Assistant Professor of German (Tenure-Track) or
Associate Professor of German (Tenured)
University of Minnesota

The Department of German, Scandinavian and Dutch in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities invites applications for a full-time position in German beginning fall semester 2010 (August 30, 2010).

Appointment will be made at the rank of tenure-track assistant professor or at the rank of tenured associate professor, depending on qualifications and experience and consistent with collegiate and University policy.

The search committee is eager to review files from applicants who have established reputations as scholars and teachers with innovative research agendas as well as from applicants who have recently been awarded or will be awarded the doctoral degree by August 1, 2010.

Required/Preferred Qualifications
The successful candidate will demonstrate the ability to pursue a rigorous program of research, engage in outstanding teaching in a broad range of undergraduate and graduate courses, advise graduate students, and contribute to service. Native or near-native fluency in German and English and evidence of excellent college/university-level teaching are required. All requirements for the Ph.D. or foreign equivalent in German or a related field must be completed by August 1, 2010.

To be considered for a tenured position in German, candidates must possess a distinguished record of academic achievement (scholarly research or other creative work, teaching, and service) that satisfies the criteria for holding an appointment with indefinite tenure in the Department of German, Scandinavian and Dutch at the University of Minnesota.

Candidates will be evaluated according to the overall quality of their academic preparation and scholarly work, evidence of research ability, evidence of commitment to teaching and skills as a teacher, and strength of recommendations.

Duties/Responsibilities
We are seeking the strongest candidates, at any rank, regardless of specialization, and encourage applications from scholars whose research speaks to concepts and questions of broad interest and importance. The successful candidate will maintain an active research program, teach and advise undergraduate and graduate students, and contribute service appropriate to the rank of the appointment for the department, college and profession. We are particularly interested in scholars whose work addresses issues in German studies related to literature and culture after 1700, including problems in intellectual, aesthetic, and cultural history; gender studies; interdisciplinary studies; transnational literature; and intellectual projects related to the fields represented in the Department of German, Scandinavian and Dutch.

To apply at either level, visit the appropriate position posting at the University's human resources website:
Tenure-track Assistant Professor level
Tenured Associate Professor level

Please note that the letter of application and curriculum vitae must be submitted on-line. In addition, three letters of recommendation, a writing sample of no more than 25 pages, and a teaching portfolio are also required. They may also be submitted on-line, or may be mailed to:

Search Committee
Dept. of German, Scandinavian & Dutch
University of Minnesota
205 Folwell Hall
9 Pleasant St. SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455-0124

All materials listed above must be received by November 2, 2009.

The University of Minnesota is committed to the policy that all persons shall have equal access to its programs, facilities, and employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, age, marital status, disability, public assistance status, veteran status, or sexual orientation.

Angelica Fenner received tenure at the University of Toronto and spent the fall semester 2009 in Cassis, France, on a scholar's residency from the Camargo Foundation.

Tim Malchow has been awarded tenure at Valparaiso University. He conducted research while on sabbatical during 2009-10, supported by Valparaiso's Philip and Miriam Kapfer Endowed Faculty Research Grant and a DAAD visit grant.

Lecturer or Teaching Specialist Positions in German
The College of Liberal Arts, Department of German, Scandinavian and Dutch

The Department of German, Scandinavian and Dutch maintains a pool of lecturers and teaching specialists to teach lower-division German language skills courses that cannot be staffed by regular faculty or graduate teaching assistants. Openings of this kind occur for teaching evening, Summer Session, and day courses. These positions are contingent upon student enrollment, performance, and availability of funding. Appointments can be for the academic year (8/31/09-5/30/10), semester-by-semester (fall 8/31/09-01/13/10, or spring 1/14/10-5/30/10) or for summer term. These positions are temporary and part-time. During the regular academic year each course is usually considered to be 33% time for the semester. Salaries for 2009-10 will be approximately $6,000 per five-credit course.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
Two years of post-secondary teaching experience in German
Native or near-native fluency in German
Demonstration of commitment to quality teaching and program development
(Teaching Specialist:) An M.A. degree or foreign equivalent or ABD in German, Foreign Language Education, or a related field
(Lecturer:) A Ph.D. degree or foreign equivalent in German, Foreign Language Education, or a related field

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
A strong background (e.g., coursework, publications) in foreign language education or second language acquisition is preferred.
Positive evaluations from students, peers and/or supervisors

APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS:
To apply, please visit the position posting on the University's human resources website https://employment.umn.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=81821 and click on "apply for this posting" and follow the instructions. Please note that the application, with cover letter and curriculum vitae, must be submitted on-line. In addition, two letters of recommendation and student evaluations or other documentation of teaching quality are also required. They may be submitted on-line or mailed to:

Search Committee
German, Scandinavian and Dutch
University of Minnesota
205 Folwell Hall
9 Pleasant Street SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455-0124.

Courses may become available throughout the year, so applications will be accepted until April 15, 2010. Applications received by August 14, 2009 will be given priority for Fall Semester 2009, and those received by October 15, 2009 or before will be given priority for Spring Semester 2010.

The University of Minnesota is committed to the policy that all persons shall have equal access to its programs, facilities, and employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, age, marital status, disability, public assistance status, veteran status, or sexual orientation.

Part-Time Lecturer or Teaching Specialist Positions
The College of Liberal Arts, Department of German, Scandinavian and Dutch

The Department of German, Scandinavian and Dutch maintains a pool of lecturers and teaching specialists to teach lower-division language skills courses in the less-commonly taught languages offered in the Department (Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Icelandic, Norwegian, and Swedish) that cannot be staffed by regular faculty or graduate teaching assistants. Openings of this kind occur for teaching evening, Summer Session, and day courses. These positions are contingent upon student enrollment, performance, and availability of funding. Appointments can be for the academic year (8/31/09-5/30/10), semester-by-semester (fall 8/31/09-01/13/10, or spring (1/14/10-5/30/10) or for summer term. These positions are temporary and part-time and do not include fringe benefits. During the regular academic year each course is usually considered to be 33% time for the semester. Salaries for 2009/10 will be approximately $6,000 per five-credit course. Applications from Danish instructors for 2009-10 are especially welcomed.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
One year of teaching experience
Native or near-native fluency in the language of instruction as appropriate for the position
Demonstration of commitment to quality teaching and program development
(Teaching Specialist:) An M.A. degree or foreign equivalent or ABD in the appropriate language, Foreign Language Education, or a related field
(Lecturer:) A Ph.D. degree or foreign equivalent in the appropriate language, Foreign Language Education, or a related field

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
Two years of post-secondary teaching experience in the relevant language.
A strong background (e.g., coursework, publications) in foreign language education or second language acquisition is preferred.
Positive evaluations from students, peers and/or supervisors

APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS:
To apply, please visit the position posting on the University's human resources website and click on "apply for this posting" and follow the instructions. Please note that the application, with cover letter and curriculum vitae, must be submitted on-line. In addition, two letters of recommendation and student evaluations or other documentation of teaching quality are also required. They may be submitted on-line or mailed to:

Search Committee
German, Scandinavian and Dutch
205 Folwell Hall
9 Pleasant Street SE
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN 55455.

Courses may become available throughout the year, so applications will be accepted until April 15, 2010. Applications received by July 10, 2009 will be given priority for Fall Semester 2009, and those received by October 15, 2009 or before will be given priority for Spring Semester 2010.

The University of Minnesota is committed to the policy that all persons shall have equal access to its programs, facilities, and employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, age, marital status, disability, public assistance status, veteran status, or sexual orientation.

Paul Peterson, graduate student in Germanic medieval studies, has been awarded a FLAS (Foreign Language and Area Studies) grant to study advanced Swedish in Sweden during the Uppsala International Summer Session 2009.

Two students from the Department of German, Scandinavian and Dutch have been awarded full grants from the Fulbright Program to spend the 2009-2010 academic year in Germany. German Ph.D. student Ashley Olstad will conduct research for her dissertation. Carmen Price, a GSD graduate who received a B.A. in German studies and English in 2008, will study intercultural education policy at Freie Universität Berlin.

John Bengtson has been re-elected vice-president of the Association for the Study of Language in Prehistory (ASLIP). He is editor of the ASLIP annual journal Mother Tongue. His book In Hot Pursuit of Language in Prehistory: Essays in the Four Fields of Anthropology in honor of Harold Crane Fleming was published in 2008. He is also involved in the Evolution of Human Language Project, sponsored by Murray Gell-Mann and the Santa Fe Institute.

She received a two-month "re-invitation" grant from the DAAD to continue her work on a collection of Biedermeier Frauentaschenbücher in Bochum that began when she had her first DAAD grant to study at the Ruhr-Universität.

In Fall of 2009, she will be starting in the Arts Management M.A. program at the University of Oregon, Eugene.

He has been accepted into the graduate program in Political Science at Purdue University.

Kellie completed her MA in Applied Linguistics/Teaching English as a Foreign Language program at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, the Netherlands, taught English and studies Spanish in Honduras, and has returned to the U.S. to work for Lexia International, a study abroad organization based in New Hampshire.

James Pasternak and Anne Wallen have been awarded Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships by the University of Minnesota Graduate School, for the academic year 2009-2010. These fellowships, awarded in a University-wide competition, offer one year of support to advanced graduate students researching and writing their dissertations.

Germanic medieval studies graduate student Adam Oberlin has been nominated for the best graduate student paper and best graduate student history paper prizes at the 2009 Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study conference in Madison, Wisconsin. His paper is entitled "Hákon Hákonarson's Norway and Crusading as Institution."

Professor Emeritus Jack Zipes has been awarded a Professional Development Grant for Retirees from the Graduate School for the project "De-Disneyfying the Fairy-Tale: A Social and Cultural History of the Fairy-Tale Film in America and Europe."

German and global studies major Jonathan Rabb received a Selmer Birkelo Scholarship, CLA's most prestigious merit award for undergraduates.

Anja Shepela has been awarded a Zantop Travel Award from the Coalition of Women in German, to support archival research in Berlin during summer 2009.

Poul Houe, Rembert Hueser, Rick McCormick, Charlotte Melin, and Monika Zagar received grants from the Imagine Fund, a University of Minnesota and McKnight Foundation initiative to support research projects in the arts and humanities.

Adi King successfully defended his dissertation, "The Pedagogy of Pop: Implicit Codes of Conduct in the Weimar Novels of Irmgard Keun and Vicki Baum."

Rick McCormick has been awarded grants from the DAAD and the UofM Office of International Programs to support research in Berlin for the project "Sex, Politics, and 'Transnational' Comedy: the Films of Ernst Lubitsch - from Berlin to Hollywood."

The American Association of Teachers of German has awarded lecturer Ginny Steinhagen a scholarship to attend the seminar "Neuer Blick, Neue Stimmen: Interkulturelles Leben und Wirken," taking place this summer in Berlin. An essay by Steinhagen can also be found in the first issue of Neues Curriculum: Journal of Best Practices in Higher Education German Studies.

Prof. Evelyn Firchow has been awarded a Grant-in-Aid from the University of Minnesota Graduate School to complete a new translation of Gottfried von Strassburg's Tristan.

Swedish lecturer Lena Norrman has received an Outstanding Service Award from the College of Liberal Arts for her dedication to teaching, service, and research. Her book, Viking Women: The Narrative Voice in Woven Tapestries, was published by Cambria Press in fall 2008.

Tim continues as assistant professor of foreign languages and literatures at Valparaiso University (Indiana) and has forthcoming publications on Günter Grass.

She was awarded a Mellon Summer Grant from St. Louis University (Missouri) for research at the Munich Bayrische Staatsbibliothek.

She earned tenure and promotion at Ripon College (Wisconsin).

She coauthored the exhibition catalogue The Immediate Touch: German, Austrian, and Swiss Drawings from Stain Louis Collections 1946-2007, published by the St. Louis Art Museum (2008).

She earned tenure and promotion at the University of Alabama, Birmingham.

She is an associate professor at the University of Victoria (Canada).

Margrit, associate professor German at Eastern Michigan University, has published Grimmatik: German Grammar through the Magic of the Brother's Grimm Fairy Tales (2007).

He was installed to a five-year term as the inaugural William G. Bowen Distinguised Professor at Denison University in Granville, OH, where he is a faculty member in the Modern Languages Department.

She has been named the DeWitt Wallace Professor of German at Macalester College (St. Paul, MN).

Kyle, guitarist in the Twin Cities heavy metal band Metal Vengeance, released his first solo album, Ghost of Metal Past--Arisen (2007). Kyle lives in Circle Pines, Minnesota, with his wife, Renee, daughter, and son.

Jessica, who played Recha in 2008's German play, Nathan der Weise, will continue to research and intern in Berlin, Germany while on a Fulbright grant.

He has completed his M.A. thesis in international relations at the Freie Universität Berlin.

He is starting a master's program in library science at Syracuse University.

She was honored with an Alumna of Notable Achievement award from the University of Minnesota in September 2008.

Patrick has begun the master's program in teaching English as a Second Language at the University of Minnesota.

Helena Karlsson successfully defended her dissertation, "Toward a Multiculturalism for the 21st Century: German and Scandinavian Literary Perspectives, 1990-2005."

Prof. Ray Wakefield has received the 2007-08 Arthur "Red" Motley Exemplary Teaching Award by the College of Liberal Arts. This major award recognizes the lasting contributions of faculty to undergraduate and graduate education and advising.

Adrienne Damiani, Laura Versaput, and Michel van der Hoek created descriptions for 30 of the manuscripts in the Special Collections & Rare Books sections of the Andersen Library.

Michel van der Hoek has been awarded a 2008-09 Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship from the Graduate School to support work on his dissertation project "Palatalization in Germanic."
Anne Wallen is the recipient of both an American-Scandinavian Foundation Fellowship and a Fulbright grant, for dissertation research in Copenhagen during the academic year 2008-09.

Anatoly Liberman has received significant funding support for 2008-10 for his Encyclopedic Dictionary of English Etymology project, from an anonymous out-of-state donor.

Monika Zagar will be a visiting international fellow in the HECUA (Higher Education Consortium for Urban Affairs) program "Divided States of Europe: Globalization and Inequalities in the New Europe," April 20-25, 2008.

Jenneke Oosterhoff was awarded a professional development leave for spring 2008 to complete grammar workbooks for basic and intermediate Dutch to be published in 2009.

The Office of the Dean of the Graduate School has awarded Anatoly Liberman a Grant-in-Aid of Research, Artistry, and Scholarship for the project "An Analytic Dictionary of English Etymology".

Friederike Weiss won a faculty travel grant from the European Studies Consortium. She's off to Stuttgart to gather curricular materials for her Spring 2008 German FLIP course, "Was uns bewegt".

Beth Kautz was awarded the CLA Professional and Administrative Outstanding Service Award for 2006-2007. On top of that, Beth secured an Instructional Equipment Grant from the Student Technology Fee Committee for the project "Developing Visual and Cross-Cultural Literacies". The award will go towards purchasing a multi-standard VCR/DVD player, LCD projector, and presentation cart with speaker amp, cables, and replacement lamp unit for the projector, for use in 128 Folwell.

Jack Zipes has been awarded the 2007 Katherine Briggs Award for his book Why Fairy Tales Stick: The Evolution and Relevance of a Genre. The Folklore Society presents this award annually to acknowledge excellence in the field of folklore studies, covering a broad range of anthropological and literary scholarship.

Gary Baker was installed to a five-year term as the inaugural William G. Bowen Distinguised Professor at Denison University, where he is a faculty member in the Modern Languages Department.