{"282531":{"#nid":"282531","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Knoespel Honored by Swedish University","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAs Georgia Tech expands its footprint around the world, long-term international relations and collegial exchange impact the way in which our research and scholarship are received. \u003Ca href=\u0022\/faculty-and-staff\/faculty\/bio\/knoespel\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EKenneth J. Knoespel\u003C\/a\u003E, former \u003Cstrong\u003ESchool of Literature, Media, and Communication\u003C\/strong\u003E chair and interim \u003Cstrong\u003EIvan Allen College\u003C\/strong\u003E dean, has a long and deep personal and scholarly commitment to several international partner institutions.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERecently, the \u003Cstrong\u003EUniversity of Ume\u00e5, Sweden\u003C\/strong\u003E, conferred upon Knoespel a prestigious honorary doctorate recognizing his ongoing productive engagement with Swedish institutions of higher learning. Ume\u00e5 officials praised him for developing \u201ca deeper dimension for work in the digital humanities,\u201d for integrating \u201cwork in the humanities and digital media through his scholarly and administrative work,\u201d and for providing \u201ca strategic resource for the ongoing development of HUM-Lab,\u201d the university\u2019s center for the interdisciplinary encounter of the humanities, culture, and information technology.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EKnoespel\u2019s connection with Sweden and Northern Europe in general was initiated when he was an undergraduate at the \u003Cstrong\u003EUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison\u003C\/strong\u003E. Later, he taught for three years as a \u201clecturer\u201d in the English Department at the \u003Cstrong\u003EUniversity of Uppsala\u003C\/strong\u003E, offering courses on Shakespeare and English poetry. During his stay, he also began to translate Swedish poetry into English and, together with Amy Arnett Knoespel, translated the first wave of sociologically important detective fiction (Mai Sj\u00f6vall and Per Wahl\u00f6\u00f6\u2019s Murder at the Savoy) and was able to mingle with many Swedish authors.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHis Swedish sojourn also introduced him to the field of intellectual history, which would become one of his areas of specialization. It also inspired him to work on a range of European languages before moving to the \u003Cstrong\u003EUniversity of Chicago\u003C\/strong\u003E, where he completed his M.S. and Ph.D. in Comparative Literature. While at Chicago, he taught Swedish in the Department of German and Germanic Languages and worked as a dramaturg in Chicago, co-writing and \u2013producing (with Robert Wolff), A Hail of Bullets, a play based on Bertolt Brecht\u2019s one-act play secretly produced in Stockholm when he was there in exile.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHis connections with Sweden have involved work with the University of Uppsala, University of Gothenburg, The Royal Institute of Technology, Blekinge Tekniska H\u00f6gskola, S\u00f6dert\u00f6rns H\u00f6gskola, and the University of Ume\u00e5. Together with LMC\u2019s Jay Bolter, he established Georgia Tech\u2019s exchange program with Blekinge Tekniska H\u00f6gskola.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EKnoespel\u2019s work in Sweden has led in the past 15 years to extensive work with Russian colleagues. He taught at the Russian Academic of Sciences in St. Petersburg and worked closely with the European University in St. Petersburg.\u0026nbsp; This ongoing work contributed to the visit several weeks ago from colleagues from the Higher School for Economics, St. Petersburg.\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EKnoespel was awarded the honorary doctorate during a public ceremony, followed by a banquet with the President of Ume\u00e5 University and the Chancellor of the University System of Sweden in October 2013. During the banquet, Knoespel was invited to address the audience of 450 guests in Swedish.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERichard Utz, LMC chair and a product of the European university system, views the great honor awarded by Ume\u00e5 University \u201ca testimony to Ken Knoespel\u2019s impressive record of excellence and sincere interest in international and collaborative scholarship.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EKenneth J. 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