2025-09-19
- Undergraduates and friends of the humanities—you're invited to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s first ever Humanities Open House! Join us on Saturday, October 4, 2025, when we’ll be highlighting the best of the humanities on our campus, including academic departments, student groups,...
2025-09-08 - 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, Emblem of the Self: The Female Traveler and the Contours of Acceptable Difference," provides the...
2025-08-25 - Professor Stephanie Hilger is looking at how 18th century European medical doctors shaped perceptions of “hermaphrodites”—people who were deemed to have non-normative sexual genitalia—through case histories. Hilger’s new book, “Medicalizing difference: The eighteenth-century construction of the ‘hermaphrodite’...
2025-05-12 - Ernst A. Philippson Graduate Research Travel Award: Awarded to a graduate student in the department for dissertation research travel abroad.
2025-05-12 - Edelweiss Scholarship Award: Awarded to students intending to become a high school teacher.
2025-05-12 - Edelweiss Scholarship Award: Awarded to students intending to become a high school teacher.
2025-04-30 - Congratulations to Anne Olmstead, Office Manager in the Departments of Germanic Languages & Literatures and French & Italian! Anne is a recipient of this year's Marita Romine Distinguished Service Award in the School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics. Anne not only demonstrates the highest standards in serving students, faculty, programs, and in working with other staff—she...
2025-04-25 - FINAL EXAMINATIONofAndrew Schwenkconsisting of the oral defense of the thesisImagining New Worlds: Narratives of Mobility in the German Volksbuch during the Age of Global Reformationsprepared under the direction of ProfessorMara Wadeand the Doctoral Committee of ProfessorsStephanie HilgerMarcus KellerEleonora StoppinoWalker Horsfallto obtain the degree of Doctor of...
2025-04-14 - We will discuss nominations and awards for recently published German language literature. Especially we will talk about the concepts, procedures and results of „Der deutsche Buchpreis“ and „Preis der Leipziger Buchmesse“. And together we will take a look into some awarded books of the past years (2019 until 2024) by reading excerpts. There is no need to prepare for the workshop, bring your...
2025-04-14 - Noel Brindise, who completed the MA as well as the BA in German, has successfully defended her doctoal dissertation in Aerospace Engineering, also at the University of Illinois! Noel notes that GLL is "a fantastic department...endlessly supportive. It's also clear to me all the time how my education from GLL informs my engineering research. It's been an enormous asset."
2025-04-09 - 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; the feasibility of the project; the potential of the project to advance the field of study in which...
2025-04-09 - Dear Graduate Students,We warmly invite you to join us for a lunch gathering this Friday, April 11, at 1pm in the Philippson Library (LCLB 3114) as part of Graduate Student Appreciation Week.We want to thank you for all your contributions to our department. Your dedication makes all the difference. Thanks for everything you do! No RSVP is needed – just come enjoy lunch with...
2025-03-25 - Date: Thursday, April 10, 2025 Time: 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM CTFormat: In-person (Hybrid option will be available)Location: UIUC Main Library Room 106Please contact Marek Sroka (msroka@illinois.edu) or Paula Carns (pcarns@illinois.edu) with questions. This event is free and open to all. Refreshments will be provided.
2025-03-24 - We’re pleased to announce the Final Examination of Zachary Hader as he presents the oral defense of his thesis.Spectrality in the Works of Christoph RansmayrPlease feel free to join us!Friday, April 4, 20252:30 pm - 4:30 pm2090B Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics Building
2025-03-17 - Check out this page for more information about GLL's Fall 2025 offerings. Add a German major or minor, fulfill General Education requirements with a great class, and more!