Faculty, Staff & Student Honours
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Faculty, Staff & Student Honours |
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Recent Faculty Book Publications, Media Appearances, and Major Honors: Faculty Professor John Zilcosky was elected President of the Literary Theory Committee of the International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA) for a three-year term (2011-2014). Professor Markus Stock has been invited to the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies to serve as Senior Research Fellow, January - June 2012. He has also recently taken on the role of Book Review Editor for Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies. Christine Lehleiter received a prestigious SSHRC Insight Development Grant that will run for two years (2011-2013) and was awarded for her ongoing research project, "Original Sin: the Quest for the Origin of Evil." Angelica Fenner published the monograph Race Under Reconstruction in German Cinema: Robert Stemmle's Toxi (University of Toronto Press, 2011). Angelica Fenner has been awarded a residency with the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France and will spend Fall 2009 researching her book project on sound, space, and mobility in European Cinemas. Willi Goetschel was the Charlotte M. Craig Distinguished Visiting Professor of German Studies at Rutgers University (spring semester 2009) John Noyes won a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) research grant for his project, Colonialism and the German Enlightenment (2007-10), $53,815 Anna Shternshis won a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) research grant for her project, The Evacuation and Escape of Jewish Civilians in the Soviet Union during World War II (2008-11), $62,000, and a Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany grant for her project (with Zvi Gitelman), The Soviet Government and Soviet Jewry During World War II: Soviet Policy, Combat and Evacuation (2008 - 2011), US$50,000 Markus Stock published Topographies of the Early Modern City (ed. Arthur B. Groos, Hans Jochen Schiewer, and Markus Stock), Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Unipress, 2008 John Zilcosky published Writing Travel: The Poetics and Politics of the Modern Journey (ed. John Zilcosky), Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008 John Zilcosky was interviewed on CBC Radio’s “The Current with Anna-Maria Tremonti”: “ Abdelrazik/Kafka” (April 9, 2009) In memoriam: University Professor Emeritus Hans Eichner Graduate Students Lara Pehar was awarded a SSHRC Doctoral Award and a Ontario Graduate Scholarship (declined) for 2011/12. Nicole Perry and Andrew Warren were each awarded Ontario Graduate Scholarships for 2011/12. John Koster and Vasuki Shanmuganathan were each granted Doctoral Completion Awards for 2011/12. Marlo Burks was awarded the International Connaught Scholarship and the Avie Bennett Award, 2011/12. Anna Stainton received an Avie Bennett Award and was also nominated as Junior Fellow of the Jackman Humanities Institute. |
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