In honor of Dr. Jutta Landa McLaughlin (1945-2003), the Modern Austrian Literature and Culture Association established a fund for graduate students who are presenting papers at our annual symposium. The fund supported these new scholars by helping with the cost of travel.
Dr. Jutta Landa received her Magister Philosophiae in English and German from the University of Vienna in Austria (she grew up in Vienna) and her M.A. and Ph.D. in German (1983) from the University of Southern California. She was a member of the Department of Germanic Languages at UCLA since 1985 and taught Contemporary German Literature, Early and New German Film, Conversation and Composition on German Culture and Society, and Business German. She also taught specialized film courses and a course on Bertolt Brecht. Dr. Landa's research emphasis was on contemporary German and Austrian literature, and on German and Austrian film. Committed to excellence in teaching, she explored the cyberjungle of digital instruction to make her classes current and attractive. She has two daughters, Julie, who graduated in 1997 from the University of Arizona, Tucson, and Marla, who is a rhetoric student at U.C. Berkeley. Studying German in Dr. Landa's opinion helped the student explore the self as it is reflected in the foreign.
