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Recent successes of UC Davis German Ph.D.s

Graduates of the UC Davis German Ph.D. program continue to be successful in the profession. Among their most recent achievements: Sebastian Heinsohn, who completed his dissertation on the aesthetics and politics of representing the street in German film in June 2009, assumed a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor of German at Bucknell University, beginning fall 2009. Isaac Tubb, who finished his dissertation on the thought of melancholia and history in Rilke, Benjamin, and Handke in fall 2008, accepted a position as lecturer in the German Department at UC Santa Barbara beginning that same term. And Caroline Schaumann, who earned her Ph.D. in German here in 1999, just earned tenure at Emory University. She now holds the title Associate Professor of German Studies. Congratulations to all of them!

Jürgen Brokoff on Avant-garde and Formalism (September 29, 2009 at 5:10PM, in 912 Sproul Hall)

Please join us for a lecture by our Alexander-von-Humbolt Fellow, PD Dr. Jürgen Brokoff (Universität Bonn, Germany): “Die Geburt der Literaturtheorie aus dem Material. Avantgardistische Kunstpraxis und formalistische Literaturwissenschaft” Tuesday, September 29, 2009 at 5:10 pm in 912 Sproul. Reception to follow. Free and open to the public.

Inge Stephan (Berlin) to serve as Max Kade Prof. Fall 2009

We are delighted to announce that Inge Stephan, Professor of German at the Humboldt-Universität Berlin and one of Germany's most renowned scholars, will serve as our annual Max Kade Distinguished Visiting Professor for the duration of fall term, 2009. She will be offering an undergraduate course on postwar German women writers and a graduate seminar on afterimages of German reunifcation in literature, film, and the arts. For her full profile, visit her homepage: http://www2.hu-berlin.de/literatur/mitarbeiter/stephan/stephan.htm

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