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Chidera
Chidera Ezeokoli receives Great Lakes Transatlantic Fellowship
Chidera Ezeokoli, a second-year M.A. student in Germanic Languages and Literatures, has been selected as one of eight Great Lakes Transatlantic Fellows for 2026. Sponsored by the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Washington, DC, the fellowship brings master’s and doctoral students from across the...
Kuo
Welcome to Assistant Professor, Irene Kuo
Irene Kuo earned her Ph.D. in German Studies from Stanford University and served as a Visiting Professor at Wake Forest University before joining the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research and teaching focuses on 21st century German literature, forced migration narratives,...
book
Congratulations to Professor Carl Niekerk!
Multidirectional, Transnational, and Postauthoritarian Memories and the Literatures of Europe’s Eastern Borderlands (from the Baltic to the Caucasus), special issue of Monatshefte (U. Of Wisconsin P.), edited by Aura Heydenreich and Carl Niekerk, volume 118, issue 1 (Spring 2026)....
Hilger
Congratulation! Professor Stephanie Hilger has been awarded a CAS Associate fellowship for Spring 2027 for her new book project, "Bodies of Knowledge: Eighteenth-Century Medicine as a Humanistic Interdiscipline.”
Workshop on Video Games and Contemporary Literature
Distinguished Max Kade Visiting Professor Graduate Student Workshop
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,...
A Schwenk
German Quarterly Graduate Student Paper Award
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, ...

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GER 465 - Die deutsche Sprache in Österreich

GER 465 - Die deutsche Sprache in Österreich

Explore the German language in Austria from a sociolinguistic perspective.
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GER 473 - Protest Memory: Post-1989 Literature, Film, and Theory

We 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.
GER 396 - Babylon Berlin

GER 396 - Babylon Berlin

In 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.
GER 201

GER 201 - German Popular Culture: Tales of Horror

It 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.