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  • Jenny Strakovsky ’09

    August 18, 2015

    Jenny spent a Fulbright year at the Humboldt Universität in Berlin before beginning her graduate program. She writes, “Things are going very well. That freshman writing seminar on the Künstlerroman turned out to have lasting consequences! I am still at Stanford, working toward a PhD in German Studies, and plan to graduate in June 2016. Currently, I’m in the thick of the dissertation-writing adventure, studying 19th-Century novelist Gottfried Keller and his depictions of romantic love and marriage.

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  • Claire Scott ’11

    August 18, 2015

    Claire E. Scott is a PhD candidate in the Carolina-Duke Graduate Program in German Studies.

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  • Joann Halpern ’88

    August 18, 2015

    Joann was the founding director of the German Center for Research and Innovation. This past April she came to campus on a visit arranged by the German Club to talk about the kinds of international opportunities that are available. Her visit quickly bore fruit, as she helped to arrange an internship in Germany for Daniel E. Berthe ’18 in the coming year after his FSP.

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  • Alexia Huffman D’Arco ’05

    August 18, 2015

    Alexia has been finding exciting new opportunities wherever she goes. After a Fulbright in Munich in 2005-6, followed by several further years working at the Atlantik-Brücke in Berlin, she became the special assistant to the president of the Atlantic Council in Washington, completed an M.A. in International Security Studies at Georgetown, and joined the State Department as a Presidential Management Fellow with the South and Central Asian Affairs Bureau.

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  • Eric Ames ’91

    August 18, 2015

    Eric is Professor of Germanics and Comparative Literature at the University of Washington in Seattle. He has recently edited Werner Herzog: Interviews, his second book on Herzog. His first was Ferocious Reality: Documentary According to Werner Herzog, which was published by Minnesota UP in fall 2012. He is now at work on his third, a monograph, Aguirre, the Wrath of God for Palgrave-MacMillan’s prestigious British Film Iinstitute’s series, BFI Film Classics. At age 71, Herzog continues to make films, which means that Eric may not be done yet writing about him.

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