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Zantop Travel Award for Graduate Students
Previous Winners
Monika Moyrer (University of Minnesota) received funding to do research on the multimedia documentation of Herta Müller, with visits to the Frauenmediaturm in Cologne and other museums in Cologne and Bonn. She will present some of her results, titled “Bettina Flitner: Kleinen’ und ‘grossen’ Frauen ins Auge geblickt,” at this year’s WiG conference poster session. Monika is currently teaching at Gustavus Adolphus College.
Katherine Hubler (Boston College) received funding for travel to Berlin, where she will examine materials at the Helene Lange Archiv and the Lette Verein Archiv to support her dissertation on the role of male allies in the 19th and early 20th century German women's movement.
Nicola Behrmann, Germanic Languages and Literatures, New York University, to support archival research for Nicola’s dissertation project “The Avant-Garde of the Other: Emmy Hennings (1885-1948).” The selection committee was impressed with her plan to sift through previously unexamined materials in several archives in order to develop a coherent account of Emmy Hennings' biographical data. When completed, the study should offer a new perspective on the Dada movement as well as contributing theoretically to Gender Studies and German Studies. Advisor: Avital Ronnell.
Michelle Duncan, Department of German Studies, Cornell University, to fund travel to the Freud Archives in Washington, D.C. to consult some recently derestricted interviews that will fill a gap in the research for her dissertation project “Listening for Freud: The Scandals of Voice and the Sounds of Psychoanalysis.” The selection committee admired the scope and complexity of this project, which promises to uncover the relationship between aspects of Freud’s subjectivity and music, specifically opera. Advisor: Michael B. Steinberg.
Nicole Grewling, Department of German, Scandinavian, and Dutch, University of Minnesota, to help support research travel for Nicole’s dissertation project “Fighting the Two-Souled Warrior: German Colonial Fantasies of North America.” The selection committee was convinced of the soundness of her plan to examine representations of colonial and interethnic issues in German Jugendliteratur. The chapter on Sophie von Wörishöffer, to be researched in Munich and Berlin, will provide the basis for a crucial piece of Nicole’s argument for expanding on the insights of Susanne Zantop in Colonial Fantasies. Advisor: Ruth-Ellen Joeres.
Anna Parkinson, Department of German Studies, Cornell University, to support archival research for Anna’s dissertation project “Affective Passages: The Politics of Emotion in Postwar German Culture.” The selection committee was impressed with the conceptual and theoretical sophistication of this project, which is expected to contribute to a more comprehensive and nuanced understanding of post-World War II consciousness in Germany. Particularly intriguing is Anna’s research on Ingeborg Bachmann and on “Mütterfilme” to inform an understanding of gender and sexuality in national identity formation. Advisor: Leslie Adelson.
Catherine McCandless, University of Pennsylvania, to conduct research on issues of gender and classes in the Liebhabertheater at the Goethe National Museum and the Goethe and Schiller Archives in Weimar. Her dissertation title is “Casting New Light on the Amateur Theatre of Weimar, 1774-82.” Advisor: Simon Richter.
Alexandra Dimitrova, University of Illinois Chicago. She used the award for travel to the Theodore Dreiser Archives in Pennsylvania to research the author Maria Leitner. Her topic is travel texts by German women journalists in the Weimar period. Advisor: Dagmar Lorenz.
Maria Stehle, University of Massachusetts Amherst, for travel to Berlin Potsdam. Her topic is the Crises of Gender and National identity in Texts and Films of the 1970s in West Germany. Advisor: Sara Lennox, with Susan Cocalis.
2002
Alison Guenther-Pal, University of Minnesota, for travel to archives and libraries in Germany that were formerly inaccessible to researchers. Her project is “’Now you see it, now you don’t’: Homosexual Representation and Queer Spectatorship in the Adenauer Era.” Advisor: Rick McCormick.
Jennifer Ruth Hosek, University of California Berkeley, for travel to Cuba to research relations between the Caribbean island and the Germanies. Dissertation: “Cuba and the Germanies: A Cultural History of an Infatuation.” Chair: Robert Holub.
Andrea Reimann, graduate student and Max Kade Research Fellow at the University of Illinois-Chicago, for her project “From Representation to Performance: The Display of Identity in Germanic Minority Films of the 1980s and 1990s.”