PhD candidate John Slattery has won a competitive School of Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics Dissertation Completion Fellowship. John's project is entitled Towards an Intercultural, Intersubjective Concept of Home in Recent German Literature, and his advisor is Prof. Anke Pinkert.
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Come learn more about our graduate students' current work, at the April German Colloquium. All are welcome in FLB 2090B at 3:15p on Friday, April 22.
Join us for the last Filmabend of the semester, on Friday, April 27 at 7p in 249 Bevier. With English subtitles!
More Department News
- The UIUC German Club will hold an end-of-semester social and its elections for officers for 2022-2023 this Thursday, April 14 from 5-6p in Bevier Lounge (second floor of Bevier Hall). We'll vote on six new executive officers: President, Vice-President, Secretary, Treasurer, Membership...
- Come practice your German with us at our informal weekly Kaffeestunde! Our participants range from beginners to native speakers, and all are welcome! We meet on Wednesdays from 5:30-6:30p (come for as much time as you like) at Espresso Royale, on the corner of Goodwin and Oregon in Urbana...
- At "Undergraduate Program in German at Illinois Urbana-Champaign," you'll find information about upcoming events, internships, fellowships, study abroad, and all things GLL! Join our online community today!
Events
Career Paths in Germanic Languages and Literatures
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...
