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Peter McIsaac New Director at CCGES York

The Canadian Centre for German and European Studies at York University is pleased to announce that Peter M. McIsaac has accepted the Centre Directorship for a three-year, renewable term beginning July 1, 2010. Peter has been a CCGES affiliate since he arrived at York University in January 2008, and his appointment signals the Centre’s commitment to a strong research and outreach agenda in the coming years. Peter, who is trilingual in German, English and Spanish, has a BS in physics and German (University of Michigan, 1990) and a Ph.D. in Germanic Languages and Literature (Harvard, 1996).

McIsaac’s scholarship and teaching takes place at the intersections of modern German literature and culture, Museum Studies, and Science and Technology. Among his publications are the book Museums of the Mind: German Modernity and the Dynamics of Collecting (2007), and, as co-editor, a special issue of New German Critique on contemporary German literature (2003). His articles have appeared in The German Quarterly, Monatshefte, Literatur für Leser, German Life and Letters and The International Journal of Cultural Policy. Peter is currently writing a book-length manuscript on the “secret” German pre-history to Body Worlds, a contemporary exhibition of human corpses that has broken attendance records and generated controversy around the world. In addition, he is collaborating with Prof. Gabriele Mueller, a fellow affiliate at CCGES, in developing a pan-Canadian research network around the theme "The Past on Display: Museums, Film, Memory". Peter currently serves as chair of the Modern Language Association’s Division on Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century Literature and Culture and on the editorial boards of The German Quarterly, imagination and German Politics and Society. Before coming to York he taught at Tufts, MIT, the University of Connecticut, and Duke University. In 2005, he received the he received the Richard K. Lublin Distinguished Teaching Award from Trinity College of Duke University
 
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