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!
2025-03-11 - This workshop, organized by Germanic Languages and Literatures, will bring Assistant Professor Julia Gutterman to our campus on April 11, 2025 for a medical humanities and disability studies talk on depictions of epilepsy in literature. Julia Gutterman is Assistant Professor of German at the University of Virginia. Her research brings questions of gender, disability and multilingualism to a...
2025-03-07 - Lessing and Voltaire first met at the Court of Frederick II in 1750, and shortly thereafter Lessing received permission to translate Voltaire’s essays and to have his daily dinner at Voltaire’s table. Eventually, however, the relationship between the two soured, and they would not meet again after Voltaire left Prussia in 1753. Carl Niekerk’s paper investigates the dynamics between the two...
2025-02-27 - 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...