Visitors:

• Albrecht Koschorke, Ph.D. (University of Konstanz) to be Visiting Romberg Professor, 2005-2010
• Stefanie von Schnurbein, Ph.D. (Humboldt University Berlin) to be Visiting Wigeland Professor, 2005-2010
• Frauke Berndt, Ph.D. (University of Frankfurt am Main) to be Visiting Humboldt Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor, 2007-2008
• Yvonne Wübben, Ph.D. (Free University Berlin) to be Visiting Bosch Fellow, Spring 2008
  
  

Job Market:

• Darren Ilett (Ph.D., 2007) has been appointed Assistant Professor at Michigan State University.
• Hunter Bivens (Ph.D., 2006) has been appointed Assistant Professor at the University of California at Santa Cruz.
• John Urang (Ph.D., 2005) has been appointed as Visiting Assistant Professor at Reed College.
  
  

Students:

• Laura Burkhauser (B.A. 2008) has been awarded a Fulbright U.S. Student Program Grant to study in Germany in 2008/2009.
• Nicole Burgoyne (B.A. 2008) and Lana Harfoush (B.A. 2008) have been awarded Fulbright U.S. Student Program Grants to study in Austria in 2008/2009.
• Aaron Vanides, Alex Mayer and Melissa Weihmeyer will be spending the academic year 2008/2009 in Germany.
• In 2008, 12 students were awarded Foreign Language Acquisition Grants (FLAGs) to study German, making German-language students disproportionally successful applicants as only 100 FLAGs are awarded each year.
• In 2008, the Department of Germanic Studies awarded a record number of 18 Romberg Awards to support undergraduate language study.
• Two Germanic Studies majors and graduates from the University of Chicago, Anita Lukic and Chris Chiasson, have entered Indiana University's graduate program in Germanic Studies in 2007.
• Three Germanic Studies majors and graduates from the University of Chicago, Sarah Eldridge, Peter Kuras and Cassio Pereira, have entered Princeton University’s graduate program in Germanic Studies in 2006.
  
  

Faculty:

• Susanne Luedemann, Ph.D., has been appointed Associate Professor of Germanic Studies, and the College and will be joining the department in January 2009.
• Christopher Wild, Ph.D., has been appointed Associate Professor of Germanic Studies, and the College and will be joining the department in the fall of 2008.
• David Wellbery elected to Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities (Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften)
• Dominik Finkelde's recent book Politische Eschatologie nach Paulus: Badiou - Agamben - Zizek - Santner addresses Eric Santner's contribution to a new reception of St. Paul.
• David Wellbery has been awarded the Forschungspreis der Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung. This honor, the highest granted by the Humboldt Stiftung, recognizes a cumulative scholarly achievement of unusual distinction.
  
  

Publications:

• David J. Levin, Unsettling Opera: Staging Mozart, Verdi, Wagner, and Zemlinsky. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007.
• Robert Buch, ed. (with Johannes Türk), Figures and Figurations of the (Un-)Dead, special issue of Germanic Review, Vol. 82, No. 2, Spring 2007.
• Robert Buch, “Seeing the Impossibility of Seeing or the Visibility of the Undead. Giorgio Agamben’s Gorgon,” Germanic Review, Vol. 82, No. 2, Spring 2007.
• Robert Buch, “Laokoons ältester Sohn. Bildlichkeit und Gewalt bei Peter Weiss,” Arcadia. Internationale Zeitschrift für Literaturwissenschaft, Band 42, Heft 1, August 2007.
• Jan Schwarz, ”Confrontation and Elegy in the Novels of Chaim Grade.” The Multiple Voices of Modern Yiddish Culture, ed. Shlomo Berger, Studia Rosenthaliana (Amsterdam 2007): 30-55.
• Jan Schwarz, “The Original Yiddish Text and Context of Night,” MLA Teaching Approaches to Elie Wiesel's Night, ed. Alan Rosen (Modern Language Association 2007): 52-58.
• Jan Schwarz, “A Library of Hope and Destruction: The Yiddish Book Series Dos Poylishe Yidntum, 1946-1966,” and “Appendix: List of 175 Volumes of Dos poylishe yidntum.” POLIN 20: Studies in Polish Jewry2007: 173-196.
• Eric L. Santner, On Creaturely Life: Rilke, Benjamin, Sebald. Chicago. University of Chicago Press, 2006.
• David E. Wellbery, Seiltänzer des Paradoxalen: Aufsätze zur ästhetischen Wissenschaft. Munich: Hanser, 2006.
• Eric L. Santner, The Neighbor: Three Inquiries in Political Theology (with Slavoj Žižek and Kenneth Reinhard). Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005.