Congratulations to the following AATG members who have recently received awards, or published or edited books!
August 2010
David Wellbery is awarded the DAAD Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Prize.
July 2010
Hester Baer. Dismantling the Dream Factory. Gender, German Cinema, and the Postwar Quest for New Film Language. New York/Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2009.
Barbara Kosta. Willing Seduction. The Blue Angel, Marlene Dietrich, and Mass Culture. New York/Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2009. Pp. xi, 208.
Goethe's Modernisms by Astrida Orle-Tantillo (Continuum; 198 pages). Draws lessons from Goethe for the understanding of the excesses of American society.
June 2010
Marjorie Tussing (California State University, Fullerton) received the Hal Wingard Lifetime Achievement Award from the California Language Teachers Association.
New publication: Screening War: Perspectives on German Suffering, edited by Paul Cooke and Marc Silberman (Univ. of Wisconsin)
Hal Boland's school, Heritage High School (Leesburg, VA) has recently been named a PASCH school: http://www.germany.info/Vertretung/usa/en/__pr/K__Wash/2010/05/28__PASCH__Leesburg__PR.html
May 2010
Publishing Culture and the “Reading Nation”: German Book History in the Long Nineteenth Century, Edited by Lynne Tatlock, Washington University, St. Louis, MO.
Thomas F. Coffey was recently elected President of Faculty Council at Creighton University, Omaha, NE.
New translation: "Dearest Georg": Love, Literature, and Power in Dark Times: The Letters of Elias, Veza, and Georges Canetti, 1933-1948, edited by Karen Laure and Kristian Wachinger, translated by David Dollenmayer.
Mary Ann Niemczura was featured in a recent article in the April 2010 PAD magazine for her "Hands Across the Ocean" video conferencing project.
April 2010
Susanne Wagner received the University of Arkansas-Little Rock Distinguished Teaching Medal.
Eva-Maria Russo, PhD, lecturer and specialist in foreign language pedagogy in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at Washington University in St. Louis was recognized by the ArtSci Council as one of eight Arts & Sciences faculty for "positively and profoundly" influencing students’ educational experiences during its annual Faculty Awards Recognition Ceremony.
Washington University in St. Louis has named James E. McLeod as the 2010 “Search” Award recipient. McLeod has been at Washington University for 35 years.
Stephen Van Orden (Timpview High School - Provo, UT) was named the SWCOLT Teacher of the Year.
Dot Kemptner (Northview High School - Duluth, GA) was named the school's Teacher of the Year 2009/2010. She is both German Teacher and Department Chair of World Languages.
March 2010
Albrecht Classen (Univ. of Arizona) edited “Handbook of Medieval Studies: Terms - Methods – Trends”.
Baer, Hester. Dismantling the Dream Factory: Gender, German Cinema, and the Postwar Quest for a New Film Language. New York: Berghahn Books, 2009.
Brisson, Ulrike and Bernard Schweizer, eds. Not So Innocent Abroad: The Politics of Travel and Travel Writing. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009.
Jirku, Brigitte E. and Marion Schulz, eds. "Mitten ins Herz". KünstlerInnen lesen Ingeborg Bachmann. Frankfurt/Main: Lang, 2009.
William, Jennifer Marston. Killing Time. Waiting Hierarchies in the 20th-Century German Novel. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell UP, 2010
February 2010
Congratulations to Nina Vyatkina and Julie Belz for receiving the 2009 ACTFL-MLJ Pimsleur Awards for Research in Foreign Language Education! They were presented with the award at the annual ACTFL Convention for their paper "The Pedagogical Mediation of a Developmental Learner Corpus for Classroom-based Language Instruction" which appeared in the journal Language Teaching & Technology.
Krishna Winston's (Wesleyan Univ., CT) translation of Peter Handke's Don Juan: His Own Version was recently reviewed in The New York Times Book Review.
Trudy Gilgenast (Wilmingon, DE) has recently published Pennsylvania German Broadsides, A Reflection of Daily Life 1741-1890.
January 2010
Lana Rings has published two online books: Germans and Americans Talk, the online intercultural communication book of interview excerpts in digitized audio, with transcriptions in German, and English translations, is now available online again, in a new, updated format at: http://langlab.uta.edu/think-tank/germans-americans-talk. In addition, Close Encounters of the Cross-Cultural Kind, the full English translation of sixteen of the interviews, together with audio clips of key ideas, is also available again at http://langlab.uta.edu/think-tank/germans-americans-talk.
Margrit Zinggeler has been awarded the Barbara Ort-Smith Lifetime Achievement Award in 2009, the highest award for a language educator in Michigan, from the Michigan World Language Association. http://www.miwla.org/new/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=46&Itemid=53
December 2009
Stefanie Ohnesorg, associate professor of German, received the Tennessee Foreign Language Teaching Association's Jacqueline Elliott Award for Teaching and Service in Higher Education. The award recognized Ohnesorg's outstanding contributions to her institution, to her colleagues, and to foreign language organizations.
http://www.utk.edu/tntoday/2009/11/16/ohnesorg-tn-foreign-language-teacher-of-the-year/
Shannon Szuszalski received the SWCOLT Goethe-Institut Summer Scholarship.
Stephen Van Orden (Timpview High School, Provo) has been named the Foreign Language Teacher of the Year by the Utah Foreign Language Association. http://www.sltrib.com/closeup/ci_14046679
November 2009
Peter Richardson, a German professor at Linfield College in McMinnville, was named one of thirty-six 2009 U.S. Professors of the Year, in a competition sponsored by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and Council for Advancement and Support of Education.
AATG Honorary Member Theodor Ziolkowski (Princeton University, emeritus) recently published Scandal on Stage: European Theater as Moral Trial.
Dagmar C. G. Lorenz (University of Illinois-Chicago) edited A Companion to the Works of Elias Canetti.
Todd C. Hanlin (University of Arkansas), edited Beyond Vienna: Contemporary Literature from the Austrian Provinces.
The Wisconsin chapter of AATG awarded Dr. Sylvester Kreilein of Marquette University High School the new Distinguished Educator in German award (recognizing exceptional service and excellence in the teaching of German in Wisconsin).
October 2009
The 15th Annual Massachusetts German Educator of the Year Award was presented to Joan Keck Campbell at the 43rd annual MaFLA Conference.
Lynne Tatlock (Washingtion University, St. Louis) published her translation of Gabriele Reuter's From a Good Family.
Sonja Fritzsche (Illinois Wesleyan University) recently published Science Fiction Literature in East Germany.
Anton Kaes (University of California, Berkeley) recently published Shell Shock Cinema: Weimar Culture and the Wounds of War.
The South Dakota World Languages Association (SDWLA) is pleased to announce that it has selected Annie Bussler, a teacher of German and Chair of Foreign Languages at Central High School in Rapid City, as the SDWLA Teacher of the Year. Ms. Bussler was selected for outstanding teaching, her passion and commitment to world languages, and her dedication to students. http://sdwla.org
Mohamed Esa, professor of German at McDaniel College, received a Bundesverdienstkreuz in Washington, DC, in October.
-http://www.germany.info/Vertretung/usa/en/__PR/K__Wash/2009/10/14__Esa__PR.html
September 2009
Randall L. Jones, professor emeritus of German and former dean of the College of Humanities at Brigham Young University, received a Bundesverdienstkreuz, erste Klasse, in Provo, UT, in September. It was presented by Wolfgang Drautz, Los Angeles Consul General for the Federal Republic of Germany.
James Rolleston (Duke Univ.) translated Theodor W. Adorno: An Introduction, by Gerhard Schweppenhäuser.
Monika Shafi (Univ. of Delaware) edited Approaches to Teaching Grass’s The Tin Drum.
Reinhard Andress is now the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs of the Graduate School at Saint Louis University.
In June, Ed Vaitones received a Presidential Scholar Distinguished Teacher award after one of his students selected him as her most influential high school teacher. She was one of 150 from around the country to be selected a Presidential Scholar. They participated in a week long program in Washington, DC.
August 2009
Published:
Paul Heinemann. Von der Unauffindbarkeit Deutschlands, Verlag Peter Lang, Frankfurt.
June 2009
German Language Center (GLC), an organization providing educational German language and culture services in Houston, announced the establishment of the new German American Elementary School (GAES). GAES is a non-profit organization supported by local members of the German American Business Circle. School led by AATG member Renate Saggau.
The University of Iowa has named 30 teaching assistants the winners of the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Awards for 2008-09. Winners receive a certificate of achievement and $1,000. One was AATG member Fatima Baig in the German department.
Published/Translated:
Hake, Sabine. Topographies of Class: Modern Architecture and Mass Society in Weimar Berlin. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2008.
Kafka, Franz. Josephine the Singer or The Nation of the Mice. Trans. Karin Doerr and Barbara Galli, with Gary Evans. Afterword by Karin Doerr. Concordia Institute for Canadian Jewish Studies: Gaspereau Press, 2009.
Maierhofer, Waltraud and Astrid Klocke. Deutsche Literatur im Kontext 1750-2000. Newburyport, MA: Focus Publishing, 2009.
Mayreder, Rosa. Gender and Culture. Trans. Pamela S. Saur. Riverside, CA: Ariadne Press, 2009.
Oosterhoff, Jenneke A. Basic Dutch. A Grammar and Workbook. London, New York: Routledge, 2009.
May 2009
Published:
Barbara Mennel (University of Florida): Cities and Cinema.
Beate Allert (Purdue University): Comparative Cinema. How American University Students View Foreign Films.
Alexander Mathäs (University of Oregon): Narcissim and Paranoia in the Age of Goethe.
Brunhilde Künne was awarded the Stanley J. Drazek Award for Teaching Excellence during the 2009 UMUC commencement ceremony in Heidelberg, Germany. Each year, this award is bestowed on faculty members who have been nominated by their students and chosen by their peers for their distinguished teaching.
David E. Wellbery (University of Chicago) has been elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
Rosmarie T. Morewedge (Binghamton University) has been awarded the State University of New York Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Faculty Service.
Gregory H. Wolf (North Central College) received the Distinguished Teaching and Leadership Award for a Senior Faculty Member.
Karen Luond Fowdy (Monroe High School, WI) is the 2009 Wisconsin Association of Foreign Language Teachers (WAFLT) Teacher of the Year.
Juan Carlos Morales (Miami Palmetto Sr. H.S.) is a member of the Board of Directors of SCOLT.
Rosemarie Pena (Marlton, NJ) received the Petros Odabashian Award as the most promising student in German Language and Literature at Rutgers University.
April 2009
Nella Spurlin (Temple High School, Texas) was named Regional Teacher of the Year by the Southwest Conference on Language Teaching (SWCOLT). She and four other regional teachers will vie for ACTFL National Language Teacher of the Year, to be awarded at the conference in November.
Helene Zimmer-Loew (AATG Executive Director) received the SWCOLT Honorary Lifetime Member Award.
David Nagle (Oklahoma Baptist University) received SWCOLT's Alfred L. Gage Professional Service Award.
Melissa L. Roop (Volcano Vista HS, Albuquerque, NM) received SWCOLT's Goethe-Institut scholarship.
March 2009
Mary Ann Niemczura won the Video Conference Champion award from Tandberg in Orlando. Full story: http://www.nscsd.org/news.cfm?story=459. She and her class won the Education/Training category in the US/Canada competition. The 2 minute video entry is on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9tslhvbAU8
Kyle Gorden (Elkhorn Area High School, WI) won Wisconsin's Distinguished Language Educator Award.
Stephanie Draheim (Gegan Elementary School, WI) won the Frank M. Grittner New Teacher Award in Wisconsin.
Heribert Breidenbach has won Illinois' Distinguished Service Award.
Phyllis VanBuren (St. Cloud State University) won Minnesota's Percy Fearing Award.
Jo Sanders (Rilke Schule, Alaska) received the Bundesverdienstkreuz, 1. Klasse, on March 23 in Anchorage.
Linda Zins-Adams (Highlands High School, Fort Thomas, Kentucky) was named Regional Teacher of the Year by the Southern Conference on Language Teaching (SCOLT). She and four other regional teachers will vie for ACTFL National Language Teacher of the Year, to be awarded at the conference in November. She also won Kentucky Outstanding Teacher of the Year.
Scott Windham (Elon Univ., North Carolina) received the SCOLT Goethe-Institut/AATG scholarship.
Erhard Bahr (Univ. of California, Los Angeles) published Weimar on the Pacific: German Exile Culture in Los Angeles and the Crisis of Modernism.
Rachel Halverson, a German professor at Washington State University, received the Ray Verzasconi Northwest Postsecondary Teacher of the Year Award.
February 2009
Petra Ehrenbrink of Falmouth has received the Association of German Societies of New England (AGSNE)'s "German Educator of the Year
Award". Dr. Ehrenbrink teaches at Falmouth Academy and was honored during the Valentine's Dance of the German-American Club of Cape Cod
on February 14, 2009.
Karin Baumgartner (Univ. of Utah) published Public Voices: Political Discourse in the Writings of Caroline de la Motte Fouque.
Mila Ganeva (Miami Univ., Oxford, OH) published Women in Weimar Fashion: Discourses and Displays in German Culture. 1918-1933.
January 2009
Irmengard Rauch (Univ. of California, Berkeley), The Phonology/Paraphonology Interface and the Sounds of German Across Time.
December 2008
Richard T. Gray (Univ. of Washington), Money Matters: Economics and the German Cultural Imagination.
Edmund Kostka (retired, Napanoch, NY): Purgatory U.S.A: Life Isn't a Nickelodeon.
Helga Madland (retired, Univ. of Oklahoma), Die Kindsmörderrin, an adaptation of an eighteenth century play titled Die Kindermörderin
Ron Murphy, SJ (Georgetown Univ.), Gemstone of Paradise: The Holy Grail in Wolfram's Parzival
Katharina Gerstenberger and Patricia Herminghouse (Univ. of Rochester) edited German Literature in a New Century: Trends, Traditions, Transitions, Transformations.
Kathleen Condray (Univ. of Arkansas at Fayetteville) was selected as a Academic Leadership Development Program Fellow from her university by the Southeastern Conference Academic Consortium.
Mechthild Vogt (retired, Fayetteville, GA) was awarded the Bundesverdienstkreuz.
