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Six professors from the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences have been named Conrad Humanities Scholars, and three of them come from the School of Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics, including Anke Pinkert, Associate Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures.
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- Professor Mara Wade was chosen to receive a 2018 Reimar Lüst Award from the Alexander von Hu
- Congratulations to Paisley Meyer, Vienna Diplomatic Program participant and winner of the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship! The Gilman is awarded under the auspices of the U.S.
- Just two days before Marianne Kalinke was supposed to attend the International Saga Conference in Iceland, the professor emerita received a phone call from Guðrún Nordal, director of the Árni Magnússon Institute — the manuscript institute at the University of Iceland.
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Career Paths in Germanic Languages and Literatures
GER 403Introduction to the professions of language services and the discipline of Translation Studies. The course provides training in translation practice to and from German and English, including audiovisual, professional, scientific, and literary samples.
GER 472/574How Romantic are we? Where does Romanticism still persist today? Texts include *Frankenstein,* *The Terrors of Ice and Darkness,* contemporary films, paintings, and programmatic texts of German Romantic and Idealist philosophy. In English, with no prerequisites.
SCAN 225An introduction to the history, literature, and culture of Scandinavia and the Nordic region, from the Viking age until the modern era (700s-present). Includes discussion of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Faroe Islands, Svalbard, and Greenland. All readings in English.
GER 261Discusses the pre-history and history of the Holocaust, and examines cultural representations of the Holocaust in literature, film, and critical essays.
GER 251We read substantial parts of the Grimms' 19th-century collections and some of their French and Italian predecessors, and we consider other storytelling forms, film, and illustration. Why do we continue to tell and to know these tales?
