Germanic Languages and Literatures

How do video games shape recent novels? This workshop invites students to discuss their own experiences with games while exploring short excerpts from contemporary fiction by Tonio Schachinger, Juan S. Guse, and Gabrielle Zevin. Together, we will examine how novels engage with gaming cultures,...

The talk reads Goethe’s Faust as a drama deeply concerned with unconscious practices of power – forms of influence, constraint, and self-constraint that operate beneath the level of explicit moral reasoning. Centering gender and social hierarchy, it argues that the play turns Margarete...

Andrew Sternhagen Schwenk was recently selected as this year's winner of the German Quarterly Graduate Student Paper Award. An edited version of his submission is slated to appear in German Quarterly in 2026.  This upcoming article "Melusine, ...

We are pleased to present the SLCL Dissertation Completion Fellowship awardees for this year. These fellowships provide advanced doctoral students with an academic year of support to complete their dissertations. Evaluation criteria includes the quality of the proposal;...

Check out this page for more information about GLL's Fall 2026 offerings. Add a German major or minor, fulfill General Education...