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...
2025-02-25 - In this book, Carl Niekerk probes the origins of modern anthropology in the European Enlightenment, foregrounding how the knowledge transfer between an international array of natural historians and public intellectuals—including Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon; Voltaire; Denis Diderot; Immanuel Kant; and Johann Gottfried Herder—shaped the emerging discipline and its central debates....
2025-02-07 - The World Language Teacher Education (WLTE) Future Teacher Award seeks to both recognize teacher candidate’s professional and academic excellence and provide financial support to assist them with the costs related to Student Teaching during their final semester.
2025-02-07 - Join us for the 2025 Max Kade Lecture, presented by Visiting professor, Dr. Marita Meyer, from Humboldt University of Berlin. For a long time, the animals in Franz Kafka's stories, be it the beetle, the mouse or the monkey, were only read symbolically. With the establishment of Animal Studies, especially Cultural and Literary Animal Studies, attention to the biological side of animal figures...
2024-12-16 - The worldly culture of northern Europe in the two centuries between the end of the Carolingian Empire and the “renaissance of the twelfth century” is, in the words of Claudio Leonardi, an “age without a name.” The difficulty of naming the period might be a lack of coherence among its parts and, at the same time, a lack of conceptual apparatus for formulating a synthesis. C. Stephen Jaeger argues...
2024-12-10 - Marie received the ICTFL Award for College World Language Teaching Majors from the Illinois Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. Macy received the ICTFL Award for New Teachers of a World Language from the Illinois Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. Congratulations to you both!