{"522161":{"#nid":"522161","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Stenport Named Chair of Modern Languages","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAnna \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWesterst\u00e5hl\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E Stenport\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003Ewill join Georgia Tech Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts as chair of the School of Modern Languages beginning in August 2016.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EStenport served as professor of\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.germanic.illinois.edu\/scandinavian\/\u0022\u003EScandinavian Studies\u003C\/a\u003E, Conrad Humanities Scholar,\u0026nbsp;and director\u0026nbsp;of the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.euc.illinois.edu\/people\/staff\/index.html\u0022\u003EEuropean Union Center\u003C\/a\u003E at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She brought cross-disciplinary leadership and\u0026nbsp;program building strength to the European Center at the University and the\u0026nbsp;Scandinavian Studies\u0026nbsp;Program and was successful in securing external funding in these areas.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn addition, she is\u0026nbsp;highly respected for excellence and innovation in teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels, for\u0026nbsp;developing interesting and\u0026nbsp;engaging curricular options,\u0026nbsp;and\u0026nbsp;for leadership and\u0026nbsp;service.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EStenport was trained at the University of California at Berkeley\u0026nbsp;with emphases in French, German, and Scandinavian Studies and in cultural geography. Her\u0026nbsp;research\u0026nbsp;examines how texts and artifacts relate to place, what cultural rootedness says about representational practices, and what these practices suggest about\u0026nbsp;the spaces from which they emerge.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHer work focuses on spatial imaginaries in the Nordic region, Germany, and France and on transatlantic relations with North America.\u0026nbsp; Most recently, she has been\u0026nbsp;broadening this scope\u0026nbsp;to include environmental humanities, indigenous methodologies, and theories of the circumpolar Arctic (Scandinavia, Greenland, Canada, and Russia), an expansion that\u0026nbsp;draws attention to diverse\u0026nbsp;representational practices and modes of circulation.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EShe\u0026nbsp;has published more than fifty journal articles and book chapters, two single-authored monographs, and several edited and co-edited volumes.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDean \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/people\/faculty\/royster\u0022\u003EJacqueline Royster\u003C\/a\u003E expressed her appreciation to the search committee led by School of Literature, Media, and Communication Chair Richard Utz and\u0026nbsp;said that she looks forward to working with Stenport as the School of Modern Languages continues to define a national and international vanguard\u0026nbsp;for\u0026nbsp;language and culture education.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAnna \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWesterst\u00e5hl\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E Stenport\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003Ewill join Georgia Tech Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts as chair of the School of Modern Languages beginning in August 2016.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Anna Westerst\u00e5hl Stenport will join Georgia Tech Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts as chair of the School of Modern Languages beginning in August 2016."}],"uid":"27498","created_gmt":"2016-04-06 13:20:07","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:21:17","author":"Rachel Miles","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-04-06T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-04-06T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"522151":{"id":"522151","type":"image","title":"Anna Westerst\u00e5hl Stenport","body":null,"created":"1460066401","gmt_created":"2016-04-07 22:00:01","changed":"1475895291","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:54:51","alt":"Anna Westerst\u00e5hl Stenport","file":{"fid":"206065","name":"stenport_small.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/stenport_small_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/stenport_small_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":47253,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/stenport_small_0.jpg?itok=_qMn0TBB"}}},"media_ids":["522151"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"3643","name":"Modern Languages"},{"id":"171896","name":"scandinavia"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERebecca Keane\u003Cbr \/\u003EDirector of Communications\u003Cbr \/\u003E404.894.1720\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:rebecca.keane@iac.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Erebecca.keane@iac.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["rebecca.keane@iac.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}