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Judith Aikin, professor of German and former dean of the College, is an international authority on early modern German literature. She has been a member of the UI faculty since 1975, regularly teaching courses at all levels, from elementary language courses, to core courses in the German major, to general education literature courses for non-majors, to graduate seminars. Her training and mentoring of teaching assistants demonstrates to them on a daily basis how research and teaching are intertwined. In her own research, she has evolved from a scholar of German Baroque drama to a historian of early modern culture at the intersection of religion, gender, and performance. She is the author of four books as well as dozens of refereed articles and book chapters. She served as associate dean for faculty from 1990 to 1992, then as interim dean for a year before becoming dean in 1993. Since returning to the faculty full-time in 1997, she has been elected to the Faculty Senate and Faculty Council and has served on many other committees in her department, in the College, and for the University. Her nominator, James Pusack, chair of the German department, says, “Judy shows her colleagues on a daily basis that in a small department no one can be a prima donna; that every contribution is needed, from offering language learners ways to use their emerging German to administration and faculty governance at the highest level.” |
