This is Dan DiMassa’s final year in the graduate program and a lot of things are falling into place. He’s making terrific progress on his dissertation on the reception of Dante around 1800.

Penn PhDs and ABDs assume new academic and non-academic jobs. Matt Handelman landed a tenure track job at Michigan State University. In his first semester he’s teaching a third year course called “Anders Gedacht” and a graduate seminar on German modernism.

The title is Women, Pleasure, Film, but the subtitle says it all: What Lolas Want. How many cinematic Lolas are there? At least 35 on his count.The title is Women, Pleasure, Film, but the subtitle says it all: What Lolas Want.

In the May 2013 issue of Seminar, a Journal of Germanic Studies, you’ll find articles by Bethany Wiggin and Catriona MacLeod that open and close a special issue on the novel in the eighteenth century.

Associate Dean Jeff Kallberg announced that Christina Frei has been appointed the inaugural Executive Director of Language Instruction in the School of Arts and Sciences.

This is just a test.

adf

In February, Liliane Weissberg published On Writing With Photography, and anthology edited with Kare

Visiting Professor Yasemin Dayioglu-Yücel has recently edited the third volume of Türkisch-deutsche Studien, entitled "51 Jahre türkische Gastarbeitermigration in Deutschland"

Graduate Student Matthew Handelman's article "Franz Rosenzweig's Modern Mathematics" will appear in the Leo Baeck Institute Year Book (2012).