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Position available: Visiting Lecturer/Instructor – Germanic Languages and Literatures
Position Description
The Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, invites applications for a Visiting Lecturer/Instructor for 2012-2013, with a target start date of August 16, 2012. This is a non-renewable, 9 month full-time, non-tenure track position with an additional 1 month summer salary. The position involves coordination of the Basic Language Program in German and supervision of teaching assistants. Conducting pre-semester teaching orientation. 2/2 teaching load which may include a teaching methods course for graduate students, courses in the basic language program and in the undergraduate curriculum. Some service in the department is expected.
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For 2012-2013, Anke Pinkert received a Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities Faculty Fellowship for the project: "Transforming the Humanities through Higher Education in Prison."
Congratulations to Yasemin Yildiz, winner of the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities Faculty Research Prize for her article "Governing European Subjects: Tolerance and Guilt in the Discourse of 'Muslim Women'" (Cultural Critique 77.1, 2011)!
Gutsgell Professor Emeritus in the Departments of Germanic Languages and Literatures and Comparative Literature Stephen Jaeger published Enchantment: On Charisma and the Sublime in the Arts of the West. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012
Congratulations to Professor Stephanie Hilger, Germanic Languages and Literatures and Comparative and World Literature, who has earned the Lynn M. Martin Award for Distinguished Women Teachers from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences for excellence in undergraduate teaching! Named for the founder, the Lynn M. Martin Award for Distinguished Women Teachers is designated to promote exceptional achievement in undergraduate teaching by women.
Congratulations to Prof. Mara Wade, who has been awarded a three-month fellowship as "Senior Fellow des Landes Niedersachsen" for research at the Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel, Germany, a leading European research center for literature and culture before 1800. This is a special initiative of the state of Lower Saxony to bring internationally recognized senior scholars in the humanities to the Duke August Library for periods of intense research and writing. The highly competitive fellowships target scholars working in historical areas of cultural and knowledge transfer and the history of media and institutions of learning. Particular emphasis was placed on research interrogating the reciprocal relationship between images and texts in the early modern period. For more information, see http://www.hab.de/forschung/stipendien/Senior-e.htm
Prof. Wade is also one of nine winners of the Scalable Research Challenge 2012, from The Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Science (I-CHASS). Winning projects will take advantage of advanced computing resources such as large-scale parallel processing, algorithmic development, and new interface design. Wade's The Emblematica Online project is digitizing two of the world's largest and most important Renaissance emblem book collections, establishing a digital subject library shared across two institutions, the U. of I. and the Herzog August Bibliothek. The project aims to digitize, index and build a new portal providing integrated access to our digital emblem book collections and eventually those of other major emblem book collections worldwide. The project will serve as a prototype for similar digitized image-text related projects in the humanities. Other members of Wade's research team include Professors Tim Cole, Myung-Ja Han, and Tom Kilton. From 2009-2011, graduate students Paul Meyer and Susanne Kress also worked on the project. To learn more about the project, visit: http://emblematica.grainger.illinois.edu/