Duke the Program In Literature

Awards, Honors and Distinctions

• • Fellow, “Circa 1968”: New Approaches to Young German Film and the Legacies of the Sixties,
  • German Film Institute at the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities,
  • August, 2008
• • The Goethe Institute/AATG Certificate of Merit for Outstanding Achievement in Furthering the Study of German Language & Culture in the United States of America,
  • The Goethe Institute and the American Association of Teachers of German,
  • November 18, 2006
• • The Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Germanic Languages and Literatures for The End of Modernism: Elias Canetti’s Auto-da-Fé,
  • The Modern Language Association of America,
  • December 2002
• • Fellow, Sixth Annual Summer Institute on the Holocaust and Jewish Civilization,
  • Northwestern University,
  • 2001
• • The Board of Trustees Fellowship for Scholarly Excellence,
  • Rutgers University,
  • 2001
• • Fellow, The Center for Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture (CCACC),
  • Rutgers University, New Brunswick,
  • 2000 - 2001
• • Max Kade Prize for Best Article of the Year,
  • The German Quarterly, 1999,
  • Awarded 2000
• • Fellow and Pew Scholar,
  • Erasmus Institute, University of Notre Dame,
  • 1999 - 2000
• • Rutgers Faculty of Arts & Sciences Award for Distinguished Contributor to Undergraduate Education,
  • Rutgers University,
  • 1999
• • Summer Fellow, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum,
  • Seminar for the Enrichment of University-level Holocaust Courses, Washington, DC,
  • 1999
• • Fulbright Summer Seminar: “Germany and Jewish Studies Today",
  • June-July 1996
• • Best Article of the Year,
  • Die Unterrichtspraxis,
  • 1995
• • Peter Suhrkamp Fellowship for Dissertation Research,
  • Center for Contemporary German Literature, Washington University/Peter Suhrkamp Stiftung,
  • 1994
• • The Esther Sellholm Walz Prize for Best Essay,
  • Harvard University Department of German,
  • 1994
• • The Austro-American Association Scholarship for dissertation research,
  • 1993
• • The Jack M. Stein Teaching Fellow Prize in German,
  • Harvard University,
  • September 1992
• • Bernhard Blume Award for Excellence in the Graduate Study of German,
  • Harvard University,
  • 1991
• • Certificates of Distinction in Teaching (7), Derek Bok Center for Teaching & Learning,
  • Harvard University,
  • 0 1990
• • Summer Language Fellowship,
  • Harvard University,
  • 1990
• • Fulbright Fellowship,
  • Vienna, Austria,
  • 1981-82
• • German Academic Exchange Service (D.A.A.D.) Fellowship,
  • Berlin,
  • 1981 - 1982
• • German Consulate Prize for Excellence in German,
  • Georgetown University,
  • 1981
• • Lusta Guwaina Award for Excellence in the Study of German,
  • Georgetown University,
  • 1981
• • Phi Alpha Theta (History Honor Society),
  • Georgetown University,
  • 1981
• • Phi Beta Kappa,
  • Georgetown University,
  • 1982
• • The William Branstrom Freshman Prize,
  • The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI,
  • 1978
• • State of Michigan Merit Scholarship,
  • University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI,
  • 1977 - 1978