Ray Wakefield ’64
Ray teaches at the Center for German & European Studies at the University of Minnesota. His specialties are second-language acquisition, medieval German literature, and Dutch.
[more]Ray teaches at the Center for German & European Studies at the University of Minnesota. His specialties are second-language acquisition, medieval German literature, and Dutch.
[more]Michael, Class of 1900 Professor of Modern Languages and Professor of German at Princeton, has published, together with Howard Eiland, Walter Benjamin: A Critical Life (Harvard UP). This is his second book on Benjamin, not including the standard English-language version of Benjamin’s writings, of which he is the general editor. Mike’s many other publications treat theories of art history, literary modernism, Weimar culture, 18th-century aesthetics, and photography.
[more]Jonathan Sa’adah’s How Many Roads, his book of photographs of the Upper Valley in the 1970s, includes a portrait of Steve as an example of someone living on the land. During his senior year, Steve squatted in a cabin on the Connecticut River in Norwich, commuting to his German classes by canoe.
[more]The website www.salzburgglobal.org describes Susanna as “the Program Director for culture and the arts at Salzburg Global Seminar, where she conceptualizes, develops, and manages several seminars and programs each year.
[more]Jane has spent the past year researching contemporary German art with the support of her Fulbright Scholarship, developing a specific research interest in feminist discourses in Germany on Minimalist art in the 1980s and 1990s. She simultaneously pursued opportunities in freelance writing and recently published an essay in the Los Angeles Review of Books entitled “A Torrent of Punk, Techno, and Radical Art,” treating the confluence of art and hacker culture in Berlin. Early on in the year, she interned at the Berlin-based music-sharing platform, SoundCloud.
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