News -- Chronik

Read about the Department of Germanic Studies: An Interview with Professor David Wellbery and PhD
students Georginna Hinnebusch and Robert Abbott in Tableau Magazine (Spring 2011).

Current Visiting Faculty and Bosch Fellows:

• Benjamin Bühler (Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin), Visiting Scholar, Spring 2012
• Christoph Menke (Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität Frankfurt), Visiting Lurcy Professor (Committee on Social Thought), Spring 2012
• Barbara Vinken (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München), Visiting Professor (Center for Disciplinary Innovation), Spring 2012 
• Daniel Weidner (Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin), Bosch Fellow, Spring 2012
• Christian Kiening (Universität Zürich), Visiting Professor, Fall 2011

Read about past visitors.

Job Market:

• Hannah Eldridge has accepted a position as Assistant Professor of German at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, starting in autumn 2012.
• Katharina Loew (Ph.D 2011) has been appointed Assistant Professor, University of Oregon.
• Andrew Erwin (Ph.D 2011) has been appointed Visiting Assistant Professor, Bowdoin College.
• Joel Lande (Ph.D 2010) has been appointed Postdoctoral Fellow in the research unit "eikones" at the University of Basel, Switzerland; he will go on to be a Cone-Haarlow-Cotsen Fellow in the Society of Fellows at Princeton University from 2011-2014.
• Elisa Primavera (Ph.D 2009)  will be a research fellow at the IFK (Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften/International Reseach Center for Cultural Studies) in Vienna from October, 2011 to January, 2012.

Read more on our alumni page.

Awards and Honors (Students):

• Hannah V. Eldridge has been awarded a Mellon Dissertation Completion Fellowship for 2011-2012.
• Leigh Ann Smith-Gary has been awarded a Provost's Dissertation-Year Fellowship for 2011-2012.
• Andrew Erwin has been awarded a Franke Institute for the Humanities Fellowship for 2010-2011.
• Katharina Loew has been awarded a Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Humanistic Studies for 2010-2011.
• In 2010, 17 students were awarded Foreign Language Acquisition Grants (FLAGs) to study German, again making German-language students disproportionally successful applicants as only 100 FLAGs are awarded each year.
• Katharina Loew has been awarded a Stuart Tave/Whiting Teaching Fellowship for 2010-2011.
  
  

Read about our graduate students' talks and publications in our Chronik.

Awards and Honors (Faculty):

• Eric Santner is "Gast des Direktors" at the IFK Vienna (Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften), Spring 2011. 
• David Wellbery is awarded the Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Preis of the German Academic Exchange Service DAAD, August 2010.
• The Senate of the Universität Konstanz has voted to award David Wellbery an honorary doctorate (Ehrendoktorwürde), October 2009.
• David Wellbery was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, October 2009.

Read about our faculty's talks and publications in our Chronik.