Congratulations

Congratulations to the following AATG members who have recently received awards, or published or edited books!

December 2011

Theodore Ziolkowski recently published two books: Gilgamesh among Us: Modern Encounters with the Ancient Epic (Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 2012) and with Peter Hacks, Senecas Tod, hrsg. mit Kommentar und Anmerkungen (Berlin: Aurora, 2011).

October 2011

Michael Shaughnessy (Washington and Jefferson College, PA) will be awarded the ACTFL/Cengage Learning Faculty Development Award for Excellence in Foreign Language Instruction Using Technology with IALLT at the ACTFL/AATG Annual Conference in November 2011.
Pennylyn Dykstra-Pruim (Calvin College, MI) and Jennifer Redmann (Franklin and Marshall College, PA) recently published Schreiben lernen: A Writing Guide for Learners of German.

September 2011

David Jahner (Gwinnett County, GA) will be awarded the Florence Steiner Award at the ACTFL/AATG Annual Conference in November 2011.
Ingrid Zeller was awarded the Charles Deering McCormick University Distinguished Lecturership for Teaching Excellence at Northwestern University for the academic year 2011-2012.
New book published: Life and Loss in the Shadow of the Holocaust: A Jewish Family's Untold Story, by Rebecca Boehling and Uta Larkey (Goucher College, Baltimore. MD).

August 2011

Honorary AATG member Irmengard Rauch of the University of California, Berkeley German Department has been named the eighth Thomas A. Sebeok Fellow by the Semiotic Society of America, the third American to receive the award, which recognizes lifetime achievement in the field of Semiotics. Professor Rauch will receive the award at the October Conference of the Semiotic Society of America in Pittsburgh, PA. Professor Rauch has just published the second edition of her book The Gothic Language: Grammar, Genetic Provenance, and Typology; Readings.
Kathleen Condray was named as One of the Most Creative Teachers in the South by Oxford American, the Southern Magazine of Good Writing:
http://www.oxfordamerican.org/articles/2011/aug/23/most-creative-teachers-south/

June 2011

Mary Ann Niemczura's exchange program "Hands Across the Ocean" at Cicero-North Syracuse High School is featured on the Goethe-Institut's Todo Aleman website: http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/lp/prj/toa/nec/ney/de7742697.htm

May 2011

Heidi Byrnes was named the next editor of the Modern Language Journal, effective 2013.
Robert Lemon (Univ. of Oklahoma) recently published Imperial Messages: Orientalism as Self-Critique in the Habsburg Fin de Siècle.

April 2011

Karen Fowdy was named the 2010 Distinguished German Educator in Wisconsin.
Jennifer Hoyer has received the 2011 Fulbright College Master Teacher Award, which is a high honor and the nomination for which has to be accompanied by a lengthy portfolio including ten nomination letters, student evaluations, a statement of teaching purpose, descriptions of teaching innovations, and much more.

March 2011

At the recent Modern Language Association conference, AATG Honorary Member Claire Kramsch (Univ. of California, Berkeley) received the MLA's Kenneth W. Mildenberger Prize for The Multilingual Subject: What Foreign Language Learners Say about Their Experience and Why It Matters.
The Alabama Germany Partnership (www.alabamagermany.org) awarded Muriel Hoequist, German Teacher at Alabama School of Math and Science, the German Teacher of the Year Award at the annual AGP Dinner and Business Forum held at the Renaissance Battle House Hotel in beautiful downtown Mobile, Alabama.
The 2010 GSA/DAAD prize for the best book of the last two years in the fields of Germanics or cultural studies was awarded to Anton Kaes (Univ. of California, Berkeley) for his book Shell Shock Cinema: Weimar Culture and the Wounds of War (Princeton University Press, 2009).
The 2010 GSA Graduate Student Prize was awarded to Wendy Westphal, doctoral student at Indiana University, for her essay "Truer than the Real Thing: Real and Hyperreal Representations of the Past in Das Leben der Anderen."
The Ohio Distinguished Career award was given to Jeri Lynn Baxstrom at the Central States Conference in Indianapolis, IN.

February 2011

Todd Kontje (University of California, San Diego) recently published Thomas Mann's World: Empire, Race, and the Jewish Question.
On February 24th, Paula Blum will be awarded an Innovation Grant from the Colorado Congress of Foreign Language Teachers. The congress was started in 1947 with the specific goal of encouraging and strengthening the study of foreign languages in schools. Read entire article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/28/colorado-congress-of-fore_n_815551.html
Albrecht Classen has recently published: Erasmus Widmann (1571-1634). Edition seiner weltlichen, unterhaltsamen und didaktischen Lieder und Gesaenge. Berlin: Weidler, 2011.

January 2011

Christine Anton (Berry College, GA) and Frank Pilipp edited Beyond Political Correctneww: Remapping German Sensibilities in the 21st Century.
Anthony Krupp edited Karl Philipp Moritz: Signaturen des Denkens.
Albrecht Classen published the 3-vols. Handbook of Medieval Studies (Berlin and New York: De Gruyter, 2010), ca. 2800 pp. He also published two volumes with collected articles: Paracelsus im Kontext der Wissenschaften seiner Zeit: Kultur- und Mentalitätsgeschichtliche Annäherungen, ed. Albrecht Classen. Theophratus Paracelsus Studien, 2 (Berlin and New York: Walther de Gruyter, 2010), VI, 247 pp. and Laughter in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times: Epistemology of a Fundamental Human Behavior, Its Meaning, and Consequences, ed. Albrecht Classen. Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture, 5 (Berlin and New York: De Gruyter, 2010), ix, 853 pp., 37 ill. He also published, as co-author:Tiere als Freunde im Mittelalter: Eine Anthologie. Eingeleitet, ausgewählt, übersetzt und kommentiert von Gabriela Kompatscher zusammen mit Albrecht Classen und Peter Dinzelbacher (Badenweiler: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 2010), 299 pp. (ca. 40%)