Adrian Del Caro

In spring Adrian Del Caro directed the honor's thesis of Johanna Rübsam, who wrote on the relationship between Nietzsche and Schoenberg (summa, Profs. Hollweck and Bruns). He also co-directed the honors thesis of Benjamin Kegley, who wrote on Nietzsche's The Gay Science (cum laude, Profs. Zimmermann, co-director, and Rupert). He was a member of the honors committee for Mack Eason, who wrote on Nietzsche's Twilight of the Idols (summa, Profs. Hanna and Rupert).

In research Adrian submitted proposals for a book in progress called "Geist and Erdgeist: Goethe's Faust From the Spirit of the Earth." He is also working on an invited essay for Oxford UP's forthcoming handbook on Nietzsche, a paper on Heine for the MLA convention, and a new translation of Schopenhauer's Parerga and Paralipomena II for Cambridge UP.

Zilla Goodman

Dr. Goodman has been teaching the Hebrew language courses as well as the Jewish culture course. She continues to serve as Associate Director for the Certificate in Jewish Studies, where she recruits and advises students as they work their way through the certificate. Spring 2007 saw the first graduate in the Jewish Studies Certificate, and this year at least two more students are expected to graduate. At present there are seventeen students registered for the Certificate and interest is growing.

Patrick Greaney

In 2007, I published two articles on contemporary literature, one on the Austrian writer Ilse Aichinger and one on the Swiss writer Urs Allemann. My book Untimely Beggar will also come out in December. This summer, the Graduate Committee on the Arts and Humanities funded a research trip to Vienna, where I worked in the Literary Archive of the National Library, and the Dean’s Fund for Excellence sponsored my archival work in Brussels on the writer and artist Marcel Broodthaers.

Vicki Grove

This was a fun and busy year, which culminated in a very successful Russian Culture week which hopefully will continue as an annual event. Aside from academic work, I also had the opportunity to volunteer at my daughter’s school during their “Read-Around-the-Clock” campaign. It was fun to read to different classes at various grade levels, and very encouraging to see them get excited about reading and learning. Future scholars, every last one of them!

Saskia Hintz

Dr. Saskia Hintz joined the German program in summer 2007 as a Senior Instructor. She teaches upper-division German language courses and Business German as well as courses on German culture taught in English. She also oversees our Goethe-Institut language certificate exams. She co-authored "Lagune 1 - Glossar XXL German-English," an English language glossary including extensive explanations for all grammar, culture and pronunciation material covered in the new German textbook series "Lagune.” The XXL Glossary will be published by Max Hueber Verlag in Munich this fall.

Thomas Hollweck

Professor Hollweck edited Selected Correspondence 1950-1984, Vol. 30 of The Collected Works of Eric Voegelin, Columbia/London: University of Missouri Press, 2007, 941 pages. He also published “Violence: A Matter of Religion?” in: Religione e violenza. Identità religiosa e conflitto nel mondo contemporaneo, a cura (hrg) di Giuliana Parotto EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, 2007, pp. 33-48.

From August 31 to September 2, 2007 Professor Hollweck participated in the 103rd annual meeting of the American Political Science Association in Chicago, where he took part in a roundtable discussion on “Hitler and the Germans” and presented a paper, “Some Reflections Regarding an Intellectual Biography of Eric Voegelin.”

For Maymester 2007 Professor Hollweck received an instructional grant to teach his course “Inside Nazi Germany.”

Elena Kostoglodova

Elena Kostoglodova attended the RMMLA conference in Calgary, Canada, in early October 2007, where she presented a paper on the topic "Making Russian a Hot Commodity: The Value of Creating Promotional Videos in Intermediate Classes" at the Russian Language and Literature panel. During the past year, Elena has been involved in the Russian Club, Russian Tea, Russian Cultural Week and Comfort Food Day. See the program news for more details on these functions.

Mark Leiderman

This year I was working on editing and proofreading my book Paralogies: The Transformations of (Post)modernist Discourse in Russian Culture from the 1920s to the 2000s. It will be published by a Moscow-based press "Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie," one of the most prestigious academic publishers in Russia. Hopefully, it will come out in early 2008. Also, I've published an article on Von Schtirlitz, a character from a very popular mini-series Seventeen Moments of Spring from the 1970s about a Soviet spy in the Nazi high echelons of power. The article is titled: "The Art of Alibi: Seventeen Moments of Spring in the Light of Our Experience," and it is published in the Moscow journal Neprikosnovennyi zapas. Another essay, on a different subject of Soviet popular culture, "The Soviet Uncanny: Pavel Bazhov's skazy," was published as a chapter of Russian Children's Literature (ed. by M.Balina and L. Rudova, Routledge, 2007).

Ursula Lindqvist

In the past year, Ursula Lindqvist proposed a new course, SCAN/WMST 3208 Women in Nordic Society: Modern States of Welfare, which was approved for the College of Arts & Sciences Core Curriculum. This course is cross-listed in Women and Gender Studies and satisfies program requirements for Nordic Studies and Women & Gender Studies students. It was offered for the first time in Spring 2007 and again in Fall 2007. Dr. Lindqvist also spent the summer as a Visiting Scholar in the Scandinavian Section at UCLA, where she continued work on her book in progress, Nordic by Design: Nationalism and the Imperial Imagination in Sweden, Denmark, and the Caribbean. She also completed two scholarly articles, "The Cultural Archive of the IKEA Store," and "Trivialism, Social Consciousness, and the Specter of César Vallejo in Roy Andersson's Cinema," and she has a number of essays on various Nordic poets and on the Stockholm Exhibition of 1930 appearing in scholarly reference works due out this fall. Dr. Lindqvist also delivered invited lectures at Gustavus Adolphus College last December, at UCLA in February, and in the Women & Gender Studies Program's Brown Bag Lecture Series in March. She received a Dean's Fund for Excellence Award to present a paper at the American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting in Puebla, Mexico, in April. Dr. Lindqvist also represented the Nordic Studies Program at the annual Workshop for North American Teachers of Swedish October 25-27 in Minneapolis.

Helga Hlaðgerður Lúthers

Helga is enjoying her first semester as a full-time instructor with the Nordic Studies Program, teaching her usual courses on Tolkien’s Nordic Sources and Contemporary Nordic Literature and Film. In addition, Helga is enjoying teaching a section of Nordic Mythology in one of ATLAS’ well-equipped classrooms this semester, and has incorporated numerous web projects and other technological treats into this section.

In addition to teaching, Helga has been busy preparing her Summer Program in Iceland, coordinating the Nordic Film Series, serving on the Executive Committee, and co-advising the Nordic Club (a delight more than a duty). As a part of the Program’s outreach efforts Helga attended the Scandinavian Ball in Denver, resulting in a generous gift from the Scandinavian Ball Committee to the Program in the form of the Millennium Series books on Iceland and the Faroe Islands. In her research, Helga continues to work on visual representations of the North, presenting “Phantoms Afoot: Isaac Julien’s Créole North” at the 97th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study, Augustana College, Illinois, this spring.

Tatiana Mikhailova

The curriculum committee approved my course on Russian women in culture and history of the 10th-19th centuries, and I taught it for the first time in Spring 2007. It was well received by students, and I am currently teaching this course for the second time. I continued collecting materials for this course while traveling to Russia, and visiting its ethnographic and historical museums in Moscow and St. Petersburg.

This year, I will be presenting two papers at conferences: one on Larisa Shepitko’s film The Wings at the conference “Women in War: World War II” (University of Pittsburgh), and another on the novels by the “Russian Jackie Collins,” Oksana Robski, at the round table “Happiness Soviet/Post-Soviet Style” at the convention of American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages in Chicago. Also, I gave a talk on my experience with using blogs for language teaching at the ALTEC Language Technology Share Fair.

I served as a faculty mentor for a recent graduate from the Russian program and our work study student, Meagan Bullock, who wrote a thesis “Leadership and Power in the Media: A Case Study of Russian and American State Controlled Internet Media” for the Presidents Leadership Class Capstone Project; she defended it with great success.

Our Russian Film Series’ popularity is growing fast. This fact certainly adds an excitement to my life as co-organizer of this series. I am also very busy with the Poetic studio, which I have launched this year and conduct every other week with my students of advanced Russian language classes.

Laura Olson Osterman

Laura Olson Osterman is working on a book tentatively titled “Tradition, Transgression, and Compromise: the Worlds of Russian Rural Women” with a co-author, Professor Svetlana Adonyeva of St. Petersburg University. Prof. Adonyeva was in residence at CU from August 6 – Sept. 15, 2007, during which time the two authors discussed their ideas and wrote parts of the book. Prof. Adonyeva gave two public talks at CU: ‘Big Men’ and ‘Big Women’: Traditional Social Structures in Contemporary Russian Urban Society (in English) and “Motherhood: Mythology and Social Institution” (in Russian).

Henry Pickford

This year I'm teaching several courses I've designed myself: a graduate seminar on the Frankfurt School and Critical Theory, and undergrad seminars on philosophy of Marx; the philosophy of Wittgenstein; and Meaning and Interpretation.

My co-translation of Kant’s lectures on anthropology is currently nearing completion and a book-length manuscript of my translations of Selected Poems by Lev Losef (translated from Russian) is now under consideration at several presses.

Lastly, I managed to climb four 14-ers this summer/fall.

Artemi Romanov

In 2007 Artemi Romanov published three articles:

Theoretical Approaches in Intergenerational Communication Research (Teoreticheskie osnovy v traktovke mezhgruppovoi i mezhpokolennoi kommunikatsii). Aktualnye Problemy Kommunikatsii I Kultury, 5, (N.L. Greidina, Ed.), Moscow-Piatigorsk, 2007: 168 –180.

Problems of Intergenerational Communication in Modern Russian Language (Problemy kommunikatsii mezhdu predstaviteliqmi raznyx pokolenii v sovremennom russkom iazyke). In Mir Russkogo Slova I Russkoe Slovo v Mire (T.I. Aleksieva, Ed.), Sofia: Heron Press, 2007, V. 1, 367–374.

Problems of Intergenerational Communication in the East and in the West (Problemy kommunikatsii mezhdu pokoleniiami na Vostoke I Zapade). In Russkii Iazyk v Azii: Sovremennoe Sostoianie iTendentsiiRasprostraneniia (T.V. Bronskaya, T. Tsetsegama, S. Erdenemaam, Eds.), Ulan Bator, 2007, 38-48.

Rimgaila Salys

Rima Salys’ most recent publications include:

Tightrope Walking: The Memoirs of Josephine Pasternak, Bloomington: Slavica Press (Indiana University), 2005 [publ. 2006], 317 pp.

“U istokov Volgi-Volgi,” (“At the Headwaters of Volga-Volga”), Kinovedcheskie zapiski (Film Studies Notes, Moscow), No. 76, 2005 [publ. 2006]: 314-43.

“Solzhenitsyn’s One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich,” The Explicator, vol. 64, no. 2 (Winter 2006): 104-8.

Routledge Encyclopedia of Popular Russian Culture, eds. T. Smorodinskaia, K. Evans-Romaine, H. Goscilo. NY: Routledge, 2006. Entries on Boris Andreev, Kira Muratova, Nikolai Kriuchkov, Ivan Dykhovichnyi, Evgenii Mironov, Aleksandr Abdulov, Valentin Gaft, article on Boris Pasternak.“Art Deco Aesthetics in Grigorii Aleksandrov’s Tsirk,” The Russian Review, 66 (January 2007): 23-35. Rima gave a talk on “Deconstructing the Stalinist Heroine: Vremya zhatvy” at the November AAASS national conference, New Orleans, and also chaired a panel on “The National Cinema Project. Whose construction and Why?”

Tracey Sands

Dr. Tracey Sands published an article, “The Cult of St. Eric, King and Martyr, in Medieval Sweden,” in Sanctity in the North, edited by Thomas DuBois and published by the University of Toronto Press. In May, she presented a paper entitled “Views of the Convent in Early Danish and Swedish Ballads” at the 42nd International Conference on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Michigan. She is currently at work on two larger research projects. One of these attempts to trace the progress of the Protestant Reformation in the handwritten songbooks kept and circulated by Danish and Swedish nobility during the 16th and 17th centuries, while the other examines political aspects of and influences on the cult of saints in the medieval Nordic region. In March of this year, Dr. Sands gave a talk for the Sons of Norway’s Trollheim Lodge in Lakewood, CO, entitled “Sigurd and Gunnar Go to Church: Understanding Images of Pre- Christian Heroes in Christian Contexts.” She also gave a talk on “Towns and Trade in the Viking Age” at the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies’ symposium on the Vikings on November 3rd.

Dr. Sands was recently elected to a three-year term as a member of the Advisory Board of the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study, and she is a member of the Governing Board of CU’s brand-new Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (directed by Professor Elizabeth Robertson), which held its opening reception at the end of September.

Patricia Schindler

Patty Schindler was awarded a CU Boulder Outreach Council Award for German Language Immersion Day, slated for Wednesday, January 23, 2008. This is the sixth Immersion Day Patty has hosted and it promises to be another fun-filled day. Over 300 students, teachers and parents attend this event designed for middle and high school German students in Boulder Valley Schools. The students engage in creative projects using German folk crafts such as the art of paper cutting, carving blocks of wood with German motifs, painting Medieval shields, writing in old German script and painting Fasching masks. German food, and a film in German make this such a successful and rewarding event...not to mention the dedication of the high school German teachers, the University German faculty, TA's and the German Club.

Ann Schmiesing

In 2007, Ann Schmiesing presented a paper on “Lessing and Chodowiecki” at the international conference “Lessing 2000” at the University of Arizona, and she received a Deans Fund for Excellence grant to present a paper on “Daniel Chodowiecki’s Illustrations for Theodor Gottlieb von Hippel’s Über die Ehe (On Marriage)” at the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies conference in Oxford. Together with Sylvie Burnet-Jones from CU Study Abroad, she also traveled to Regensburg, Germany, in October to conduct an on-site evaluation of CU’s exchange program with the University of Regensburg. While in Regensburg, Ann enjoyed meeting with university administrators and professors, dining with CU students currently studying in Regensburg, and last but not least sightseeing in and around the historic city.

In 2007 Ann directed Susanne Barrett’s MA thesis “Das Sandmännchen: Examining East Germany through Children’s Television”; Deborah Ormsby’s MA thesis “Integrating Reading into the Modern German Language Classroom”; and Joanne Hayes’s honors thesis “Framing of ‘Errors’ in German and English: A Comparison of Bastian Sick’s Der Dativ ist dem Genitiv sein Tod and Lynne Truss’s Eats, Shoots and Leaves” (magna cum laude).

Davide Stimilli

In 2007 Davide Stimilli was awarded a Lilly Library Fellowship to conduct research on the Orson Welles Papers, which are preserved in the Lilly Library at Indiana University, in preparation for a book on Welles and Franz Kafka. He was selected as a Senior Saxl Fellow at the Warburg Institute in London, U.K., for the academic year 2007/2008, and as a Fellow at the Liguria Study Center in Bogliasco, Italy, for the spring 2008. In the spring 2008 he has also been invited as a Research Fellow at the Zentrum für Literaturforschung in Berlin, Germany. The French translation of his edition of Aby Warburg's clinical history was published in 2007, under the title: La Guérison infinie: Histoire clinique d'Aby Warburg (Paris: Rivages 2007); a Spanish translation: La curación infinita. Historia clínica de Aby Warburg is also forthcoming (Buenos Aires: Adriana Hidalgo 2007). Meanwhile an expanded German edition has been released: Die unendliche Heilung. Aby Warburgs Krankengeschichte (Zürich/Berlin: Diaphanes Verlag 2007), as well as a selection of Warburg's unpublished writings: Per Monstra ad Sphaeram. Der Vortrag zum Gedächtnis an Franz Boll und andere Schriften 1923 - 1925 (Hamburg/München: Dölling und Galitz 2007).

Beverly Weber

I have been settling in to my new position here in GSLL. While learning the ins and outs of a new institutional structure is always a challenge, I am enjoying life in the department and in Boulder! Here at CU I’ve become an Affiliate Faculty member of Women and Gender Studies as well as a participating faculty member in the Department of Comparative Literature and Humanities. I’m also working on course proposals for new courses on post-war German film and Islam in Europe. I have been working together with students to restart the German Club, and in association with that, running a German Film series. As part of my research, I presented at the Creolising Europe conference in Manchester, England, and at the Women in German conference in Utah. These presentations form part of my book project, tentatively titled “Beyond the Islam / Modernity Divide: Muslim Women in Germany and the Politics of Representation,” for which I am currently writing the prospectus. I’m also involved in forming a junior faculty caucus of the German Studies Association, redesigning the Women in German website, and participating in preliminary discussions about beginning a new research group on cultural studies approaches to issues of migration, race, and ethnicity in Europe.