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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…
Education in an Embodied Internet (Metaverse)
Kevin Richards was recently interviewed by David Staley for the Voices of Excellence from Arts and Science podcast, in which they discuss the embodied experience of the internet, i.e. the…
LaVern J. Rippley, our 2019 Distinguished Alumnus, passes away
We have received the sorrowful news that Professor LaVern John Rippley died January 6, 2022 in Rochester, Minnesota. In 1965, Professor Rippley earned a PhD in German Studies from the then…
Spencer publishes essay on Einstürzende Neubauten
Andy Spencer has published the essay "First World War Commemoration: Einstürzende Neubauten ‘Do It A Dada’” in the volume German Pop Music in Literary and Transmedial Perspectives, edited by noted…
Newest volume in Anna Seghers Werkausgabe series released
The newest volume in the Anna Seghers Werkausgabe series has been published by Aufbau Verlag in Berlin. We congratulate Professor Emerita Helen Fehervary, the General Editor, on this latest…