Background
Aikin, Judith Popovich was born on August 6, 1946 in Los Angeles, California, United States. Daughter of Milosh and Jeanne Popovich.
( Scaramuzza, Scaramouche: the commedia dell'arte figure ...)
Scaramuzza, Scaramouche: the commedia dell'arte figure made a triumphal entry into German literature in the plays of Caspar Stieler (1632–1707). Transformed into a master of language and languages, Scaramutza—social critic, voluptuary, and mouthpiece for his author—ushers in a new type of comedy that depends more on the happy ending than on laughter for its effect. This study should both establish the significance of the long-neglected dramatic works of Caspar Stieler, already regarded as an important lyric poet of the German Baroque, and serve to initiate a reevaluation of German comedy and of the standard definition of the comic genre used by Germanists as Aikin explores the heroic or romantic comedy as a subgenre of literary merit. The study includes a discussion of Stieler's important contributions to the development of the German-language Singspiel and opera.
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academic administrator language educator
Aikin, Judith Popovich was born on August 6, 1946 in Los Angeles, California, United States. Daughter of Milosh and Jeanne Popovich.
Bachelor, University Oregon, 1968. Master of Arts, University Oregon, 1969. Doctor of Philosophy, University California, Berkeley, 1974.
Assistant professor University Iowa, Iowa City, 1975-1981, associate professor, 1981-1988, professor, since 1988, associate dean liberal arts, 1990-1992, interim dean liberal arts, 1992-1993, dean liberal arts, 1993-1997, professor German, since 1988.
( Scaramuzza, Scaramouche: the commedia dell'arte figure ...)
Member Modern Language Association (chair executive committee division German literature to 1700, 1989), Society for German Renaissance and Baroque Literature (president 1985).
Married Roger Cushing Aikin, December 27, 1966. 1 child, Thomas.