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Mergenthaler and Richards to serve as STEP mentors
Congratulations to Professor May Mergenthaler and Dr. Kevin Richards for being named STEP mentors for 2019-20.
Mentors are nominated by colleagues, students, and administrators from across…
Birkhold publishes Opinion piece in NYT
Professor Matthew Birkhold's opinion piece has been published in the New York Times.
Birkhold wrote A Brief History of the Indignities Heaped Upon Greenland after spending…
Traylor defends her dissertation
Many congratulations to Sarah Traylor for successfully defending her dissertation "Sacred Journeys in a Secular Age: Pilgrimage in Contemporary German Literature" with co-advisors Dr. Byram…
Mueller wins Presidential Fellowship
GLL's Carolin Mueller is one of fourteen graduate students in the College of Arts and Sciences to have received a Spring 2019 Presidential Fellowship, the most prestigious award given by the…
Nolan-Epperson to take part in Leipzig seminar
Master's student Melissa Nolan-Epperson has been selected to participate in a three-week seminar, “Mit Deutsch in die Zukunft,” taking place in Leipzig, Germany from June 16-July 6.
The…
Kindig successful in her MA exam
A big congratulations to Maddie Kindig for successfully completing her MA exam with advisor Dr. Paul Reitter and committee member Dr. Robert Holub on April 30th 2019!
Maddie's MA exam was…
Alexander Stephan Undergraduate Essay Prize in German Studies Winners
Congratulations to the 2019 winners of the national Alexander Stephan Undergraduate Essay Prize in German Studies!
Qingyang Zhou (pictured right) from the
A salute to our 2019 departmental award winners
We proudly salute the student recipients of the department's annual awards.
The 2019 Wolfgang Fleischhauer Scholarship of $1,200 was awarded to Rebecca Gill, who double…
Uskokovic gains ABD rank
Congratulations go to Budimka Uskokovic for passing her candidacy exam to gain ABD status!
Her committee members were Dr. Ludmila Isurin (Slavic), Dr. Leslie Moore (Teaching and Education),…