Professor Paul Michael Lützeler has been elected a new member of the Executive Committee of the Gesellschaft für interkulturelle Germanistik. He was a fellow during the spring and summer of 2015 at the Morphomata Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Cologne (research topic: autobiographical writing), and he has published a new book "Publizistische Germanistik" with De Gruyter (Berlin and Boston), 417 pages. He is the recipient of Washington University's 2015 Arthur Holly Compton Faculty Achievement Award.