2024-10-02 - This account of the “laboratory of radical democracy” in the months before East Germany’s absorption in the West challenges memories of Germany’s reunification. For many, 1989 is an iconic date, one we associate with the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War. The year prompts some to rue the defeat of socialism in the East, while others celebrate a victory for...

2024-09-20 - This workshop will explore theoretical and practical aspects of using generative artificial intelligence tools in language teaching. Applications and limitations of particular tools will be discussed. Participants are encouraged to bring their own devices to work with the AI tools. Come join us on October 11, 2024 from 4-5:30pm in LCLB 2090B to learn more.

2024-09-03 - Curious about what types of projects and activities the EUC funds across campus? Please join us for a round of three-minute lightning talks by faculty and staff on EUC-funded activities from the 2023-24 academic year. This will also be an opportunity to socialize with fellow students, faculty, and staff in the EUC community.  Friday, September 13 at 12:00 P.M.  Lucy Ellis Lounge,...

2024-08-29 - Professor Laurie Johnson has been selected for the 2024-25 cohort of the Public Voices Fellowship with the University of Illinois System. The program is a national initiative to help faculty amplify their expertise in ways that contribute to public conversations about pressing issues. Candidates are chosen...

2024-05-28 - Repeat and Redo: Exercise, Style and Bildung in 19th Century German Literature & Culture

2024-05-22 - The Society was founded in 1745 to promote the study of the history and culture of Denmark.  There are currently about 67 Danish members and about twenty from outside of Denmark, not surprisingly most them from Iceland, Norway, and Sweden.  There are 3 US members, of which Professor Em. Mara R. Wade is now one and the only US woman.  The society publishes a journal...

2024-04-26 - For the Academic Year 2024-2025, GLL MA students Marie Jensen and Jaider De La Hoz have been awarded, respectively, the “Edelweiss Scholarship” and the “Max Kade Fellowship.” Both Marie and Jaider are completing their coursework for the MA. Marie...

2024-04-26 - GLL PhD. Student Jared Evan Cohen won The Program in Jewish Culture & Society Karasik Scholarship for the coming academic year 2024-2025 to advance his pre-dissertation research in German-Jewish studies. The scholarship will be carried out this summer at the Deutsches Literaturarchiv in Marbach am Neckar, Germany, to...

2024-04-26 - GLL doctoral candidate Andrew Schwenk has been awarded a competitive and prestigious Fulbright Fellowship to study in Germany during the academic year 2024-2025. He will be conducting research for his dissertation at the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel. His dissertation project investigates depictions of travel in the...

2024-04-22 - We are pleased to announce the first graduate research colloquium of the academic year for the department of Germanic Languages and Literatures. In two weeks, doctoral candidate Zachary Hader will be delivering a talk entitled “An Introduction to Spectrality through Christoph Ransmayr’s Atlas eines ängstlichen Mannes.”

2024-04-22 - How did German composers brand their music as Venetian? How did the Other fare in other languages, when Cabeza’s Relación of colonial Americas appeared in translations? How did Altdorf emblems travel to colonial America and Sweden? What does Virtue look like in a library collection? And what was Boccaccio’s Decameron doing in the Ethica section? From...

2024-04-22 - Civic virtues were central to early modern Nürnberg’s visual culture. These essays in this volume explore Nürnberg as a location from which to study the intersection of art and power. The imperial city was awash in emblems, and they informed most aspects of everyday life. The intent of this collection is to focus new attention on the town hall emblems, while simultaneously expanding the purview...

2024-04-22 - The first full-length study to bring together the fields of Health Humanities and German studies, this book features contributions from a range of key scholars and provides an overview of the latest work being done at the intersection of these two disciplines. In addition to surveying the current critical terrain in unparalleled depth, it also explores future directions that these fields may take...

2024-04-22 - Sherman Adams was born in Atlanta and immigrated to Sweden in the 1960s, where he became a prominent activist and journalist. His memoir, Mitt Amerika (My America), published in 1980, is still well known in Sweden. It gives an account of Adams’s childhood during Jim Crow. The memoir was published in Swedish from an English manuscript and has also been published in Danish and Russian.  Adams...

2024-04-22 - Early Romanticism’s New Old Religions. Tieck, Schlegel, Novalis German Early Romanticism is characterized by a newly awakened interest in religious practices and institutions: Novalis and Friedrich Schlegel exchange letters discussing their desire to write a new Bible. Friedrich Schleiermacher discovers religion as a ‘taste for the Infinite’ (Geschmack fürs Unendliche). Ludwig...