GLL doctoral candidates Felix Ayanbode and Zack Hader have been awarded, respectively, the competitive Graduate College Dissertation Completion Fellowship and School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics Dissertation Completion Fellowship! Felix's thesis...
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Professor Emeritus Karl-Heinz Schoeps-Jensen has published Von Hitlers Deutschland zu Trumps Amerika, an autobiographical reminiscence about two brothers, about the twentieth century, and about the legacies of fascism and of war. Hans-Günther Schoeps died aged 24 during World War II, and his younger...
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- On Friday, March 10 at 3p, the Department of GLL will host a lecture on Zoom by Prof. Chunjie Zhang (University of California-Davis). The talk is entitled "Crisis and Vision of a World Culture: Rudolf Eucken and Carsun Chang's Das Lebensproblem in China und in Europa (1922)." This talk is...
- Profs. Regine Criser (UNC-Asheville) and Ervin Malakaj (Univ. British Columbia) will offer a graduate-student workshop, followed by a department conversation, on Friday, March 3, 2023 at 3p and 4p Central, respectively, on Zoom. The workshop is on "Being in Community: A Relational Model for German...
- Kaffeestunde will be wunderbar in Spring 2023! We meet at Espresso Royale on Goodwin and Oregon in Urbana on Wednesdays at 5p. Join us for lively German conversation--all levels welcome! Some instructors offer extra credit for...
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GER 465Explore the German language in Austria from a sociolinguistic perspective. Topics include the linguistic history of Austria, pluricentricity and standard language variation, Austrian dialects, language contact and linguistic minorities, language policy, multilingualism, and second language pedagogy...
GER 473We will discuss a diverse archive of post-1989 literature, film, and memorials in order to reexamine the so-called Peaceful Revolution and the interval year of ’89-90. More specifically, we ask what kind of cultural memories of street activism, resistance, and alternative social vision were left...
GER 396In 1929, Berlin was known to be a hedonistic city of extremes: corrupt wealth existed alongside destitute poverty and an underground world of wild parties and glamour. In this course we delve into the internationally acclaimed television series “Babylon Berlin” to explore the Golden Twenties in...
GER 201It 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. Few exercises reveal more about a culture than exploring its evolving pathologies, which is exactly what those seemingly...
GER 261We investigate 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. Please note that you...
GER and SCANCheck us out in Spring 2021! Some of our courses are highlighted here, and contact Prof. Laurie Johnson for more information about our full range of offerings!
GER 101This online course will be offered during the second half of the Fall 2020 semester. Vienna, Austria will be your virtual classroom as you learn German! You'll interact with Austrian students via online assignments, and investigate themes related to your major or minor (in ACES, BUS, ENG, LAS, FAA...
