Professor Sandy Dugan of the Department of World Languages traveled to Göttingen, Germany in February, 2009 to present Dr. Sascha Feuchert (right) with the Honorary Professor certificate
Dr. Sascha Feuchert EMU’s First Honorary Professor
The Department of World Languages and the German Section are proud to announce that we are the recipient of EMU’s first Honorary Professor; we would like to introduce Dr. Sascha Feuchert of the University of Gießen in Gießen, Germany. Professor Rosemary Weston-Gil, Department Head of World Languages and Professors Margrit Zinggeler and Carla Damiano of the German Section would like to welcome Dr. Feuchert as an honorary colleague and we look forward to the exciting opportunities for international exchange and international collaboration between EMU and the University of Gießen that this partnership will bring. Both faculty and students on both sides of the Atlantic will benefit tremendously.
Dean Tom Venner of the College of Arts & Sciences appointed Dr. Feuchert Honorary Professor of EMU on January 29th, 2009. This appointment comes “in recognition of Dr. Feuchert’s recent, ongoing and future commitment to collaboration with EMU’s German Section and in recognition of Dr. Feuchert’s collaboration with research colleague Dr. Carla Damiano since 2006.”
To further quote Dean Venner: “Offering this appointment as Honorary Professor of Eastern Michigan University occurs within the context of our university mission to ‘extend our commitment beyond the campus boundaries to the wider community through partnerships of mutual interest addressing international opportunities and challenges.’”
Dr. Feuchert is a perfect fit for EMU. He has a fine reputation as a published scholar of contemporary German literature and Holocaust literature, and he has also published various pedagogical works on German literature. Furthermore, he has founded and directs the first and, to date, only Holocaust Institute at a German university which deals with Holocaust literature. Dr. Feuchert has been studying the Holocaust since his graduate student days and recently his years-long efforts to make a major literary/historical contribution to Holocaust Studies came to fruition in a co-edited publication entitled, Die Chronik des Gettos Lodz/Litzmannstadt (The Chronicle of the Lodz/Litzmannstadt Ghetto). which was reviewed in the Michigan War Studies Review in September of 2008. Professor James Holoka of the Department of World Languages is the founder an editor of this online review journal.
[See:<http://www.michiganwarstudiesreview.com/2008/20080901.asp>]
For more information on Dr. Sascha Feuchert please see his website:
<http://www.holocaustliteratur.de/index.php?content=11&category=4>.