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July 4, 2025

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Event Location: Main Campus
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August 26, 2025

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September 1, 2025

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September 18, 2025

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Event Start Time: 3:30 pm
Event Location: Caldwell Lab 115 / main campus

Recent News

Online Journal goes live

zæsur, online journal, is Live!

In January 2025, the freely accessible online journal for poetry criticism/reviews zæsur. poesiekritik went live, with the help of a generous grant by the city of Berlin, Germany, and private…

Teafatiller success SP2025

Candidacy Exam Success!

Congratulations to Trevor for advancing to candidacy! His exam centered on Thomas Mann’s radio addresses, a rich and underexplored topic in which Trevor has already acquired formidable expertise…

Mendez success SP2025

Candidacy Exam Success!

We congratulate Alexa Mendez, who has successfully passed her candidacy exam! 

Alexa advanced to candidacy with a stellar exam whose focus was evocations of Blackness in…

Paul Reitter receives Translator Prize

Reitter chosen to receive the 2025 Helen & Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize

Paul Reitter, the Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures, has been chosen to receive the 2025 Helen and Kurt Wolff…

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