Faculty News

Marianne Lancaster:

Congratulations to Senior Lecturer Marianne Lancaster on her 2009 Emory College Language Center award for excellence in foreign language teaching. Lancaster has been our first year coordinator for the past eight years.

Hiram Maxim:

Was awarded the Emory College Language Center (ECLC) Curriculum Development Grant for Spring 2009 to support his work on revising the 2nd year course as part of the German Studies Department’s full-scale revision of its undergraduate curriculum.

Will give a presentation in Denver, CO on March 21 together with Lone Peterson from Georgetown University at the annual meeting of the American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL) on a systemic-functional analysis of the longitudinal development of the passive voice among collegiate learners of German.

Erik Butler:

Was awarded the 2009 Emory College Language Center (ECLC) Curriculum Development Grant for Spring 2010 to support his work on Yiddish for advanced learners of German.

On January 8, 2009 at a conference of The British Society for 18th Century Studies, Erik Butler delivered a talk at St. Hugh's College, Oxford, UK, entitled "Joseph de Maistre and Metaphysical Revenge." The paper examined Heinrich Heine's and Charles Baudelaire's ironic embrace of Satanism in light of Maistre's reactionary theodicy. Maistre, the apologist of violence for Church and Crown, provided nineteenth-century poets of a political orientation decidedly different from his own with the rhetorical tools to justify the Revolution of 1848 and demand the blood of what Karl Marx called the "aristocracy of finance."

Peter Hoeyng:

Was awarded the 2009 Emory College Research Grant for Humanistic Inquiry for his research on Ludwig van Beethoven as a reader of literature entitled "Beethoven's Intellectual Life in Vienna". The Goether Year Book has also accepted his "Grillparzer-Beethoven" article to be published mext year.

James Van Horn Melton:

Congratulations to Professor James Van Horn Melton on his NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities) Grant for 2008 to complete his transatlantic study on the migration of Salzburg Protestants to the Georgia colony in the 18th century. He published an article in Past and Present and co-edited Pietism in Germany and North America, 1680-1820 (Ashgate Publisher, 2008)

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