http://www.umass.edu/wig/pubs/newsletter/no76_summer98.htm#005
Suzanne Zantop New WiG Yearbook Co-Editor
On behalf of the search committee, I wish to announce that the new coeditor of the Women in German Yearbook is Susanne M. Zantop of Dartmouth College. Susanne will serve a three-year term, working with continuing coeditor Patricia Herminghouse for the remainder of her term. To many of you, Susanne needs no introduction, but for those who do not yet know her or her work, here is a brief and incomplete summary.
Susanne is Chair and Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Dartmouth College. She received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Harvard University. She believes the Yearbook has been and should continue to be a forum for feminist readings of German literature and culture for a predominantly American audience. She is committed to offering articles in English that address wider theoretical, interdisciplinary, and multidisciplinary concerns and that connect feminist inquiry with other approaches, such as postcolonial studies, neo-marxist analysis, new historicism, literary and social histories, and the many ramifications of cultural studies. She also believes that feminists must continue to be involved in political issues in the widest sense, and address the "entrenchment" ideology (back to formalism, back to disciplinary boundaries, back to the canon) that seems to pervade the Humanities. She wants to work closely with Pat and the Editorial Board, so that the WiG Yearbook can continue as a collective endeavor.
Susanne brings a wealth of experience to the Yearbook. Her most recent book is Colonial Fantasies: Conquest, Family, and Nation in Precolonial Germany, 1770-1870 (Duke UP, 1997). She has edited or coedited six volumes, including Bitter Healing: German Women Writers from Pietism to Romanticism (with Jeannine Blackwell) (U of Nebraska P, 1997, 1990); The Imperialist Imagination: German Colonialism and its Legacy (with Sara Lennox and Sara Friedrichsmeyer) (U of Michigan P, 1998); and reprints of several of Friederike Helen Unger’s texts. She has published numerous articles on Heine, Unger, and other authors, as well as articles on orientalism, colonialism, and literary theory, among many other subjects. As we welcome Susanne M. Zantop as the new WiG Yearbook coeditor, we also extend our most sincere appreciation to outgoing coeditor Sara Friedrichsmeyer, who has done "yeowoman’s work" for the past six years.
Jeanette Clausen, for the Search Committee
Personal News
Editor: Karen R. Achberger
E-mail: krach@stolaf.edu
St. Olaf College
Northfield, MN 55057
Phone: (507) 646-3381
Fax: (507) 646-3732
Have you recently moved, been promoted, won a prize, had a baby, gotten married or tried out a new job? Are you a new member who would like to introduce yourself to the rest of us? These are the kinds of personal news items that we would like to hear about from you. Submissions may be of any length, from a sentence to a page. Please submit any bits of personal news to Karen.
Paula Hanssen Receives NEH Grant
Congratulations to Paula Hanssen, Webster University, St. Louis, who has received an NEH grant for a six-week seminar (June 7-July 17, 1998) in Berlin at the Humboldt UniversitŠt focusing on Brecht and the Berlin Years.
Brenda Bethman Receives Fulbright Grant
Brenda Bethman, U. Massachusetts, Amherst, has received a Fulbright grant to go to Vienna next year (1998-99) to research her dissertation, which focuses on the interesting topic, "Fascism and Gender in Ingeborg Bachmann and Elfriede Jelinek."
Birgit Tautz Accepts Tenure-Track Position at Lawrence University
The St. Olaf German Department is extremely unhappy to be losing Birgit Tautz to a tenure-track position. starting Fall 1998 at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin. Lawrence is to be congratulated on the wisdom of their choice, which must have been a difficult one in these times, with many qualified and talented candidates for every position.
Frederike von Schwerin-High Accepts Position at St. Olaf College
Frederike von Schwerin-High, U. Massachusetts, Amherst, has accepted a .50 FTE position for 1998-99 in the German Department of St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota.
Information from the Internet
Brenda L. Bethman
E-mail: bbethman@german.umass.edu
Dept. of German, Herter Hall
Univ. of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA 01003
Phone: (413) 545-6681
Fax: (413) 545-6995
Submissions policy: Please send directly to me any items of interest for Wiggies relating to the Internet to the addresses (e-mail and snail mail) listed above.
Feminist Internet Gateway
A comprehensive list of women’s sites ranging from "General Women’s Issues" to "Women’s Studies and Centers." There is a site-wide search engine, an index, and an online feminist merchandise and bookstore.
URL: http://www.feminist.org/gateway/master2.html
New Links at the Freie Universität Berlin
The FU Berlin has a new collection of links to German literature on their website. It contains more than 400 short biographies of German-speaking authors.
URL: http://www.ub.fu-berlin.de/~goerdten/germref. html#kurz
New Address for the On-Line Journal glossen
From Wolfgang Muller at Dickinson College comes news of a new address for glossen, the electronic scholarly journal on German literature, art, and film.
The new URL is: http://www.dickinson.edu/glossen
Gender Inn at Cologne University.
Gender Inn is a searchable database providing access to over 5000 records pertaining to feminist theory, feminist literary criticism and gender studies focusing on English and American literature but including some entries for German literature. It covers monographs and essay collections. It generally avoids indexing works on individual authors, since these can be found easily from the MLA Bibliography.
URL: http://www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/englisch/ datenbank/e_index.htm
New East-West Women’s Network
A new women’s network to connect women East and West is online now. The new network links women and women’s organizations in East and West. The network is situated in Vienna and financed by the Women’s Office of the Viennese City Council. The languages used are German and English.
The women’s network east-west offers a good practice and an address database, links to other interesting sites as well as news and events. All users and visitors can actively submit information into the network themselves.
They will shortly start to run a mailing list, not only to provide subscribers with information but also to enable the subscribers to forward information themselves. The list owners would like to invite those interested to subscribe the mailing list at the internet address given below.
URL: http://www.municipia.at/frauen/
German History Journals’ Tables of Contents Available Online
The tables of contents of a large number of (German language) German history journals can be found online.
URL: http://www.phil.uni-erlangen.de/~p1ges/zfhm/ zfhm_na.html
Directory/Database
Editor: Martha K. Wallach
E-mail: wallachm@ccsu.ctstateu.edu
Dept. of Modern Languages
Central Connecticut State University
New Britain, CT 06050
Phone: (860) 832-2894
Fax: (860) 832-2522
Purpose of Questionnaire
The questionnaire at the end of the newsletter has two purposes:
To collect address information for inclusion in the annual directory, which is more complete than that maintained in the membership records by our Treasurer.
To provide the Editors of the WiG Yearbook and the Book Review Editors of this Newsletter with information about the expertise of the membership, which they use to select reviewers. We originally requested that you check no more than five fields, but some of you overlooked that restriction and thus made the outcome uneven. Thus we removed it this year. However, please remember that we are not asking about your interests, but only about areas in which you have enough expertise to be able to judge the work of others.
Instructions
Please fill out the form clearly, type it, or paste on address labels. It should be mailed or faxed to me when you become a new member of WiG, or when your address information changes. Brief corrections can be sent to me by e-mail.
If you don’t fill out the form, you will be listed with only one mailing address, the one you sent to Jeanette Clausen when you joined WiG or renewed your membership. Those addresses were not checked against possible address changes in the membership records this year - a very time-consuming job, since we work with two different databases. So make our job easier, keep your information up to date and fill out that form!
