Olivia DrakeNovember 12, 20091min
Krishna Winston, the Marcus L. Taft Professor of German Language and Literature, dean of the Arts and Humanities and coordinator of the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship, translated the new book, Don Juan: His Own Version, written by Peter Handke. The 128-paged book is published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux.  It will be released in February.

Olivia DrakeOctober 27, 20091min
Leo Lensing, chair and professor of German studies, professor of film studies, is the editor of the book, Peter Altenberg: The Self-Invention of a Poet. Letters and Documents 1892-1896, published by the Wallstein Verlag (Goettingen) in Germany. The 210-page book, published in September, documents the beginning of the literary career of the Viennese writer Peter Altenberg (1859-1919). The book received positive reviews in a Sept. 28 issue of The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, whose arts pages are the most prestigious in the German-speaking world.

Olivia DrakeFebruary 13, 20091min
Krishna Winston, the Marcus L. Taft Professor of German Language and Literature, dean of the Arts and Humanities and coordinator of the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship, participated in a meeting with Nobel Prize-winning author Günter Grass Jan. 18-24 in Luebeck, Germany. She is the English-language translator for Grass's work and one of 16 people working on translations of his new, semi-autobiographical novel, The Box, for publication worldwide.