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Conference
Literary Experiments:
Media | Art | Texts
1950-2010
March 26-28, 2010
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Call for Papers
International Symposium
Form — Violence — Meaning
Two Hundred Years

 Heinrich von Kleist

Vanderbilt University
Nashville, Tennessee

April 7-10, 2011
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Prof. Dieter Sevin received a Festschrift to honor his
achievements: "Literatur im Jahrhundert des Totalitarismus. Eds. Elke Gilson, Barbara Hahn, and Holly Liu. Hildesheim, Z
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rich, New York: Georg Olms Verlag 2008."

The German Department received a generous grant by the Max Kade Foundation for incoming graduate students (beginning 2009).
 
Prof. Barbara Hahn was awarded a 2008  Guggenheim Fellowship (Hannah Arendt's literature)

Prof. Christoph Zeller was awarded the 2007 Jeffrey Nordhaus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching by the College of Arts & Sciences.

Prof. Sara Eigen Figal received the Vanderbilt Mellon Faculty Development Award for 2007-2009.

Prof. Dieter Sevin was  awarded the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (das Bundesverdienst- kreuz) by the Consul General of the Federal Republic of Germany, Dr. Lutz H. Görgens on September 24, 2007 during a festive reception in Kirkland Hall on the Vanderbilt campus.