During my postdoctoral fellowship at Dartmouth, one of the projects I worked on was an edited volume on Black German literature. The volume "Schwarze deutsche Literatur: Ästhetische und aktivistische Interventionen von den 1980er Jahren bis heute" (Black German Literature: Aesthetic and Activist Interventions from the 1980s to the Present) has now been published by transcript Verlag.
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In the Winter course German 44.08: Sustainability and German Environmental Imagination, students presented their "show-and-tell" posters on various concepts fundamental to understanding environmental issues. These compelling concepts included Animal Perceptions, Immersion and Interconnectivity, The Economy of Nature, Extrinsic and Intrinsic Value of Nature, Anthropomorphism and Sustainability, and Soundscapes. For their informative, creative, and fun posters, students collaborated in small groups on various texts and media.
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Discussion follows with director Ines Johnson-Spain and Leslie Center postdoctoral fellow Jeannette Oholi, moderated by Yuliya Komska. Free and unticketed, co-sponsored by the Department of German Studies, the Office of the Dean for International and Interdisciplinary Studies, and the Kade Foundation.
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Jeannette Oholi receives the International Comparative Literature Association's ECARE First Book Subvention Prize for her pathbreaking first book.
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Veronika Fuechtner gathers an interdisciplinary group of readers to workshop Susan Bernofsky's new translation of Thomas Mann's novel The Magic Mountain.
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