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Fulbright Winners in GLL announced!
Germanic Languages and Literatures congratulates our recipients of the prestigious U.S. Student Fulbright Awards for the 2022-2023 academic year from the U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright…
Professor Kaplan discusses "Goblin Mode"
Slate: How Defamatory Is 'Goblin Mode' to Real Goblins?Two years into the pandemic, “goblin mode” has become a new way to describe times when we lounge around, eat junk food and binge watch.…
Consul General Wolfgang Mössinger meets students
Consul General Wolfgang Mössinger and Fabrizio Micalizzi, assistant to the coordinator of transatlantic cooperation, Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany, Chicago visited…
Grotans awarded the 2022 Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching
Please join the entire department in congratulating Prof. Anna A. Grotans on having been awarded the 2022 Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching!
In course after course and in…
Uskokovic Defends Her Dissertation
Hearty congratulations to Budimka for successfully defending on April 11th!
Budimka Uskokovic's dissertation, Intercultural Communicative Competence in German: A Conversation Analytic…
Hats Off to our 2022 departmental award winners!
We proudly salute the student recipients of the department's annual awards this year.
The 2022 Wolfgang Fleischhauer Scholarship of $5,000 was awarded to Gwen Stamper, who double majors in…
Clavo Abbass elected as CGS President
GLL doctoral student Jorge E. Clavo Abbass has been elected President of the Council of Graduate Students! Jorge previously served as the GLL delegate to the Council from 2019-2020 and again from…
Johnson to direct Yiddish program in GLL
GLL is delighted to welcome Matthew Johnson to its faculty. Johnson will be starting his appointment next fall and will have responsibilities for the Yiddish program, both as director of Yiddish…
Cynthia Porter to join the GLL faculty next fall
GLL is delighted to announce that Cynthia Porter will be joining the faculty next fall. Porter earned a Bachelor’s degree from Denison University in 2010, then went on to acquire two Master’s…