Professor Mara Wade will be President of the RSA as of April 2020. Currently the RSA Vice President, Prof. Wade conducts research on visual culture (with emphasis on emblematica), digital humanities, court studies, gender studies, early modern literature and culture of German-speaking lands and Scandinavia.
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- Elena Wilson, a senior majoring in German Studies and Molecular and Cell Biology, has been named Lincoln Academy Student Laureate. Each year, the Lincoln Academy Student Laureate Award is given to a senior at the University of Illinois through the Chancellor’s Honors Program.
- Charlie Webster, Director of the Center for Language Instruction and Coordination (CLIC) and Director of the German Language Program, has organized an reading group entitled "The Role of Study Abroad in Higher Education."
- On Thursday, November 7, 2019, Dr. Theo Malekin will give a talk as the first speaker in this year's department lecture series. Come hear about "A Kind of Tapestry: Locating Disability and Mental Illness in the Films of Ingmar Bergman." 5:15 p.m. in Foreign Languages Building Room 2090B.
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GER 261 / ENGL 269 / CWL 273This course treats literary and filmic representations of the Holocaust. While a single course cannot do justice to this complex topic, we read four novels and screen five films concerning cultural representations of victims and perpetrators, and Holocaust denial and documentation.
GER 493It is hard to overstate how central vampires and zombies, doppelgänger and killers, ghosts and artificial humans—haunted hybrids—have been to the construction of German identity.
GER 199 / CWL 199How does the Harry Potter phenomenon reflect and transform central aspects of Western culture? We consider character, structure, and the philosophical and ethical issues raised within and by the Harry Potter series.
GER 465 / SCAN 494How have the Germanic languages changed throughout history? How is English related to German and Swedish? What can history tell us about how languages are changing today?
GER 470 / GER 572The aim of this course is to explore various kinds of transgressive behavior surrounding themes of money, knowledge, sex, and violence in early modern German literature by reading and discussing key works from the period before 1800.
GER 251Join us to experience tales you thought you knew and tales you never knew. We read tales by the Grimms and others, and we consider film, illustration, and the history of media. Why do we continue to tell these tales?
