WiG News
ELECTION OF VICE PRESIDENT/PRESIDENT-ELECT
It is once again time to collect nominations for Vice President/President-Elect of the
Coalition of Women in German. Please consider nominating someone for
this position or indicating your own willingness to be a candidate.
Requirements:
1. Current membership in WiG, with previous leadership experience in the organization (for example, as Steering Committee member, member of Newsletter or Yearbook staff, prize committee member, or Web Editor) and attendance of the annual WiG conference within the last seven years.
2. Tenure at her/his institution with senior rank (at least associate professor).
3. Institutional support (for travel to conferences, secretarial support).
Duties:
• The Vice President serves for two years in preparation for assuming a two-year term as President.
• As VP she/he supports and advises the President and shares responsibilities for organizing/conducting searches (Treasurer, Yearbook coeditors, NL editor, Web Coeditor etc.); the VP shares other responsibilities as needed, such as facilitating communication between annual conferences and reviewing applications for the Zantop Graduate Travel Award.
• The Vice President is expected to attend the pre-conference Steering Committee meeting as well as the entire conference each year of the tenure as VP and President.
Procedure:
If you wish to nominate someone, you MUST first contact that person to make sure that she/he will accept the nomination, is in a position to fulfill the requisite responsibilities, and is willing and able to attend the requisite pre-conference Steering Committee meetings and conferences.
Please send names and institutional affiliation for nominees to:
Amy Young (adyoung1(AT)juno.com) and Jill Smith (jsmith5(AT)bowdoin.edu) by May 15, 2008.
WiG NEWSLETTER
The Spring 2008 newsletter is now online! (Available to WiG members only).
This spring 2008 issue of the Women in German Newsletter contains many exciting columns, news, announcements, calls, a filmography; and it is with great pleasure that we announce the return of book reviews to the Newsletter!)
NEW CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS NEEDED The current co-organizers of WiG’s annual conference invite members who enjoy organizing events to think seriously about taking on the rewarding task of coordinating the 2009-2011 conferences. In the last dozen or so years the conference has been held in Florida, California, Arizona, Kentucky, and at present in Utah. It would be particularly appropriate to move the conference to a location in either the Midwest or Northeast. If you are interested and know of an appropriate site, please contact Denise Della Rossa, Notre Dame University, at dellarossa.1(AT)nd.edu.
WiG 2008 SPECIAL GUEST, ANGELA KRAUß, Available for Reading Tour. Please contact Julie Klassen at jklassen(AT)carleton.edu for arrangements and further information.
SEARCH: NEW COEDITOR for the Women in German Yearbook
ANNOUNCEMENT FROM NORA ALTER, WiG VICE PRESIDENT
We announce a search for a new coeditor of the WiG Yearbook, as Maggie McCarthy will be stepping down this fall after the WiG annual conference. Maggie has agreed to serve on the search committee appointed in consultation with the WiG Editorial Board. The other members on the search committee are: Friederike Eigler and Leslie Morris. I will chair the committee as a non-voting member.
If you hold a tenured position and would like to be a candidate for this position or would like to nominate another WiG member, please consider the following information:
The new coeditor will serve a three-year term, which may be renewed once. S/he will be working with Katharina Gerstenberger, who is now in her first year as WiG Yearbook Coeditor. Coeditors share responsibilities and work collaboratively in close contact with each other. Each coeditor must secure institutional or departmental support to underwrite the costs of telephone, copying, fax, postage, and editing software; funding for a graduate or undergraduate assistant would be very important but not essential.
If you wish to apply, please send a letter citing your experience and qualifications, a statement of your vision of what the WiG Yearbook is/should be, and what you hope to contribute to the editorship. Your letter should be accompanied by a CV and names of two referees. Please send materials electronically by April 1, 2008 to all members of the search committee: Nora M. Alter, Friederike Eigler, Leslie Morris, and Maggie McCarthy.
mamccarthy(AT)davidson.edu
nma(AT)ufl.edu
morri074(AT)tc.umn.edu
eiglerf(AT)georgetown.edu
We look forward to hearing from you!
Nora M. Alter
Professor of Film and Media Studies, and German Studies
Affiliate Faculty Jewish Studies, and Women's Studies and Gender Research
University of Florida
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