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April 2012

McGlothlin and Kapcyznski present "Representing Medicine In and After the Holocaust" at Holocaust Memorial Lecture

Hillenbrand, Twitchell receive Dean's Award for Teaching Excellence; Stanley receives GAPS award

March 2012

Malakaj, Olson, Pasic receive Fulbright, Berlin Program fellowships

Mike Lutzeler speaks at international convention of ALEG (Latin American German Studies Association)

February 2012

Haegele elected to MLA Regional Delegate Assembly for the Central and Rocky Mountain Region

Koepnick elected member of MLA Executive Council

November 2011

Malakaj elected Vice President of the MLA Graduate Student Caucus for the 2012

Luetzeler co-organizes the international Hermann Broch symposium at the Austrian Literary Archive

Koepnick named Fellow of the Creative Research Institute in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University for the academic year 2011-2012

Various graduate students participated and presented work in the Midwest Modern Language Association Conference in St. Louis

Various graduate students participated and presented work at the annual South/Central MLA convention in Hot Springs, AK

Koepnick published “Culture in the Shadow of Trauma?” The Oxford Handbook of Modern German History. Ed. Helmut Walser Smith. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. 711-729

October 2011

Luetzeler attended the Frankfurt Book Fair in October in the interest of the Special Contemporary German Literature Collection

Patrick Brugh named Graduate Student Fellow in the Center for the Humanities for Spring 2012

September 2011

Kapczynski awarded GSA/DAAD Article Prize for “Postwar Ghosts: /Heimatfilm/ and the Specter of Male Violence"