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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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  • Jack Zipes ’59

    August 18, 2015

    Even in retirement, Jack maintains his presence at the University of Minnesota and continues to solidify his standing as one of the world’s preeminent fairy tale experts. Princeton University Press has recently published his new translation of The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm: The Complete First Edition.

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  • Ray Wakefield ’64

    August 18, 2015

    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.  

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  • Michael Jennings ’72

    August 18, 2015

    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.

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