We are pleased to publish these selected papers from the 2011 European Studies Conference. These articles were carefully read and chosen by our Assistant Editors. This year we are also publishing the winning papers from the Anthony Jung Award for Best Graduate Student Presentation at the European Studies. Each year submissions and topics change, which lead to this year's following categories:

Dr. Juliette Parnell (Foreign Languages)

Assistant Editors:

Jeremy Baguyos (Music), Ana Carballal (Foreign Languages), Gwyneth Cliver (Foreign Languages), Susan Eldridge (Accounting), Moshe Gershovich (History), Anthony Jung (Foreign Languages), Joan Latchaw (English), Orville Menard (Political Science), Tatyana Novikov (Foreign Languages), Michael Peterson (Geography), Barbara Simcoe (Art History), Stephen Torres (Foreign Languages)

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I. English Literature

• Stu Burns:: "Vampire and Empire, Dracula and the Imperial Gaze"

II. French Literature and Art

• David M. Uber: "Sunday on the Seine with Maigret: Fantasy and Joie de vivre in La guinguette à deux sous"

• Tyler E. Ostergaard: "Monsters in the Fog: The Critical Reaction to the Railroad as Subject Matter in Manet, Monet and Caillebotte's Paintings of the Gare Saint-Lazare and Pont de l'Europe"

III. German Literature and History

• Joan L Clinefelter: "Overcoming the Führer by Confronting the Senator: McCarthyism and the German Past"
• Donald R. Sunnen: "Seeking European Understanding: A Visit to Kreisau"

• Tony Demchak: "The Division of the German Navy and Merchant Marine at the Potsdam Conference"

  Lorna Sopcak: "Memory Contests: Erinnerung vs. Gedächtnis"

IV. Russian Literature and Art

• Irena Galloway: Alexei Tolstoy's Early Political-Historical Writings"

• Radha Balasubramanian and Thomas Winter: "Inherently Russian and Inherently Roman: Tolstoy's Miniature Masterpiece Alyosha the Pot"

• Cadra Peterson McDaniel "Soviet Identity: Socialist Realism and Imperial Traditions"

V. Spanish History

• Dieudonné Afatsawo: Where Has the Future Gone? Explaining La Generación Ni-Ni/The Neither-Nor Generation in Spain"

VI. Music

• Rossella Marisi: "From Opera to Operatic Arrangements: François Borne's Fantaisie brillante sur thèmes de Carmen

VII. Anthony Jung Best Graduate Paper Winners

• Gerry A. Wolfson-Grande: "'The Beste Game of Alle': Playing Chess with Fortune in Chaucer's Book of the Duchess and the Knight's Tale"

• Annett Wienmeister: "Move Beyond Kant? - The Autopoiesis School on Life and Cognition"