In honor of Dr. Jutta Landa McLaughlin (1945-2003), the Modern Austrian Literature and Culture Association established a fund for graduate students who are presenting papers at our annual symposium. The fund supported these new scholars by helping with the cost of travel.

Dr. Jutta Landa received her Magister Philosophiae in English and German from the University of Vienna in Austria (she grew up in Vienna) and her M.A. and Ph.D. in German (1983) from the University of Southern California. She was a member of the Department of Germanic Languages at UCLA since 1985 and taught Contemporary German Literature, Early and New German Film, Conversation and Composition on German Culture and Society, and Business German. She also taught specialized film courses and a course on Bertolt Brecht. Dr. Landa's research emphasis was on contemporary German and Austrian literature, and on German and Austrian film. Committed to excellence in teaching, she explored the cyberjungle of digital instruction to make her classes current and attractive. She has two daughters, Julie, who graduated in 1997 from the University of Arizona, Tucson, and Marla, who is a rhetoric student at U.C. Berkeley.  Studying German in Dr. Landa's opinion helped the student explore the self as it is reflected in the foreign.

2010

In alphabetical order:

• Dominik Becker, U of Cologne
• Mirjam Bitter, International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (Giessen)
• Catriona Firth, U of Durham
• Jens Hobus, Technische Universität Berlin
• Katya Krylova, U of Cambridge
• Jean-Bertrand Miguoue, Université de Yaoundé 1 (Cameroon)
• Nina Peter, Freie Universität Berlin
• Barbara Siller, Trinity College, Dublin

In addition, the Austrian Cultural Forum in New York has graciously and generously supported this conference by providing a number of travel grants to Graduate Students attending the conference.

• Natalia Dudnik, U of Illinois at Chicago
• Carl E. Findley, III, U of Chicago
• Jens Klenner, Princeton University
• Robert Kohn, U of Texas at Austin
• Gloria Man, U of Washington (Seatle)
• Simona Sivkoff, Rutgers State University
• Erica Weitzman, New York University

2009

• Michael Huffmaster, University of California, Berkeley
• Rebecca Weidner, Georgetown University

In addition, the Austrian Cultural Forum in New York has graciously and generously supported this conference by providing a number of travel grants to Graduate Students attending the conference.

In alphabetical order:

• Angelika Baier, University of Vienna
• Richard Benson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Hang-Sun Kim, Harvard University
• Matthias Mansky, University of Vienna
• Francisca Solomon, University of Vienna

2005

• Alexis Sai Yuen Pong - U of California, Berkeley
• Edna Epelbaum - New York University
• Alexandra Huster - New York University
• Sabrina Rahman - U of California, Berkeley
• Ruxandra Mandoiu - Emory University

2004

• Irene Fussl - University of Salzburg
• Gabriele Wurtzer - University of Vermont
• Ellie Kennedy - Queen's University, Ontario