Department of Germanic Studies

Another active – and distinguished – retiree is Marianne Kalinke, (Ph.D.,’70):

“I have now been retired at the University of Illinois since 2006. After a hiatus of eleven years, the university finally hired Verena Höfig in 2017 in a tenure-track assistant professor position as my successor in Old Norse-Icelandic Studies. I continue to do research, give papers, and publish. In August, I attended the triennial International Saga Conference in Iceland, on the occasion of which the president of Iceland conferred on me the Order of the Falcon, Iceland’s highest honor, for my research, scholarship, and teaching in the area of medieval Icelandic literature. Who would have thought that a required course for medievalists in Old Norse, taught by Foster W. Blaisdell, would lead to this.”