Penn Graduate Student Sonia Gollance will spend ten months conducting research and participating in a seminar at the Center for Jewish History (New York) as a 2016-2017 Sophie Bookhalter Fellow in Jewish Culture.
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Winners of the 2016 PLC Best Project Prize for “Bewegungen”
April 22, 2016Claudia Lynn and Sibel Sayili-Hurley have won the 2016 PLC Best Project Prize for their work on a new textbook for German 104, entitled "Bewegungen". The project was made possible by a language grant from the Penn Language Center and the support of the German Department.
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Bethany Wiggin Receives Whiting Public Engagement Fellowship
April 19, 2016Bethany Wiggin, associate professor of Germanic languages and literatures and the founding director of the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities, is among the first recipients of a Whiting Public Engagement Fellowship from the Whiting Foundation.
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Keynote Address "The Untimeliness of Media: Intermediality Across Eras in German Literature Culture, and Art"
March 4, 2016Professor Christopher Wood gives the talk "The Crime of Passion," on Dürer's drawing "The Death of Orpheus," homosexuality in the Renaissance, and Aby Warburg's pathos formula.
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Professor Ian Fleishman wins NeMLA Book Award
July 29, 2015The Northeast Modern Language Association has selected Ian Fleishman's first book manuscript, An Aesthetics of Injury: The Narrative Wound from Baudelaire to Tarantino, as the winner of their 2015 Book Prize.
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Interview with Professor Kathryn Hellerstein
July 24, 2015In the "Women in Translation" issue of TranscUlturAl: A Journal of Translation and Cultural Studies, Penn German Ph.D. student Didem Uca interviews Dr. Kathryn Hellerstein, Penn Professor of Yiddish, on her career as a scholar-poet-translator.
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Professor Kathryn Hellerstein has been awarded two grants for her 2015-2016 sabbatical
July 24, 2015The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives has granted her The Joseph and Eva R.
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Catriona MacLeod's Fugitive Objects wins 2014 Jean-Pierre Barricelli Prize
March 30, 2015Catriona MacLeod's book, Fugitive Objects: Sculpture and Literature in the German Nineteenth Century, has won the 2014 Jean-Pierre Barricelli Prize for the year's best book in Romanticism.