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Grants from the Max Kade Center at Wash Univ - St. Louis

Three grants from the Max Kade Center for Contemporary German Literature at Washington University in St. Louis

--Thirty travel grants (600 Euros each) for advanced U.S. or Canadian graduate students and assistant professors participating in the weekend seminar from June 26-28, 2009 in the Deutsche Literaturarchiv in Marbach/Germany:

“Memory Culture and Gender Politics: The New German Family Novel”,

taught by Prof. Walter Erhart, Universitaet Bielefeld, on books by John von Dueffels, Hans-Ulrich Treichel, Kathrin Schmidt, Reinhard Jirgl, and Dagmar Leupold. Hans Ulrich Treichel and Kathrin Schmidt will do readings during the seminar. Further lectures by the translator John Woods (Berlin) and the publishing expert Petra Hardt (Suhrkamp). The seminar is organized in cooperation with the Deutsche Literaturarchiv in Marbach and is supported by the Robert Bosch Stiftung in Stuttgart.

--Two DAAD Grants ($3.000 each) for U.S. or Canadian colleagues working in the field of contemporary German literature to do research in the Contemporary German Literature Collection at Washington University’s Olin Library.

--One Max Kade Grant ($3.500) for a U.S. or Canadian Ph.D. candidate working on a dissertation in the field of contemporary German literature to do research in the Contemporary German Literature Collection at Washington University’s Olin Library.

The application deadline for each of these grants is March 15, 2009. Please send a CV and a short description of your interest in the weekend seminar or an outline of your research project/dissertation topic. Phd. candidates applying for the Max Kade dissertation grant have to add a recommendation from the dissertation adviser. Email all applications and requests for more information about the weekend seminar in Marbach to:

Prof. Paul Michael Lützeler at Washington University in St. Louis.

Email address: jahrbuch@wustl.edu