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A pedagogy piece written by Professor Gollance and Caitlin Hatten, a student in her spring semester Yiddish 3371 course, is live on the Digital Yiddish Theatre Project blog. 

The…

Congratulations to May Mergenthaler, Associate Professor, who has received an 18-month Alexander-von-Humboldt Fellowship for Experienced Researchers!

She will use the fellowship to…

Carmen Taleghani-Nikazm, Professor, Germanic Languages and Literatures, has published together with Emma Betz (University of Waterloo) and Peter Golato (Texas State University) the volume…

Professor Matthew Birkhold has won a 2020 Excellence in Undergraduate Research Mentoring Award. Congratulations!

He was nominated for the award by Dieter Cunz award-winning senior Elena…

Congratulations to Caleb Davis, who has passed his MA exam. 

In his thesis, Caleb wrote about the role of nationalist narratives in commemorative monuments of the mythic character…

Drawing on the latest research, Becker-Cantarino's Handbuch places Bettina von Arnim (1785-1859) in her historical and familial context and highlights her networking with intellectuals and artists…

Join us in recognizing the achievements of our majors and minors in Germanic Languages and Literatures – 2019-2020! We will begin by highlighting the winners of our departmental awards. For a full…

Congratulations to Melissa Nolan-Epperson, who has passed her MA exam. 

She dealt with two early films from the GDR: Frank Beyer's Nakt unter Wölfen and Konrad Wolf's Sterne. Both films…

Carmen Taleghani-Nikazm, professor of German, researches language interaction often through conversation analysis. She joins host David Staley to define conversation…