2024-04-03
- ILIP is a unique educational experience designed to accelerate language learning through an immersive classroom atmosphere that is fun and welcoming. ILIP classes combine language and culture through engaging high-quality activities facilitated by our skilled instructors. You'll receive 30-hours of enjoyable language instruction, which maximizes exposure to the target language to help them meet...
2023-11-15 - Prof. Hunt receives EU Center grant and affiliation for her GER 199 CHP class: The Holocaust and Discourse of Human Rights, which she is currently teaching for the Campus Honors Program. World War II (1939-1945) marked a dramatic shift in how international communities think about trauma and remember war and other catastrophic events. Focus moved from honoring heroes on the battlefield to...
2023-11-15 - Charlie Webster, who is the Director of the Basic Language Program and the Director of Undergraduate Studies, was awarded a course development grant from the European Union Center to develop a new course about how multilingualism manifests itself in European cities. The award includes a course development stipend and funding for a graduate assistant. “Multilingual European Cities” will be taught...
2023-11-15 - Prof. Hunt was selected to participate in the Inclusive Pedagogy Certificate Program, sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences and the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion. This highly competitive award will provide 12 selected faculty participants with the opportunity to design or revise syllabi or course materials. Prof. Hunt’s project is to develop...
2023-10-23 - Walker Horsfall joins the department this year as an Assistant Professor. Get to know him and our Scandinavian program. Check out his SCAN 252: Viking Sagas in Translation class this Spring. Follow us on Instagram to learn more about our professors and classes! ...- 2023-06-05 - For the Academic Year 2023-24, GLL doctoral candidates Felix Ayanbode and Zack Hader have been awarded, respectively, the competitive Graduate College Dissertation Completion Fellowship and School of Literatures, Cultures &...
2023-05-09 - Professor Emeritus Karl-Heinz Schoeps-Jensen has published Von Hitlers Deutschland zu Trumps Amerika, an autobiographical reminiscence about two brothers, about the twentieth century, and about the legacies of fascism and of war. Hans-Günther Schoeps died aged 24 during World War II, and his...
2023-04-06 - Check out this page for more information about GLL's Spring 2025 offerings. Add a German major or minor, fulfill General Education requirements with a great class, and more!
2023-03-06 - On Friday, March 10 at 3p, the Department of GLL will host a lecture on Zoom by Prof. Chunjie Zhang (University of California-Davis). The talk is entitled "Crisis and Vision of a World Culture: Rudolf Eucken and Carsun Chang's Das Lebensproblem in China und in Europa (1922)." This talk is part of our lecture series on "Making a Difference in German and Scandinavian Studies."...- 2023-02-24 - Profs. Regine Criser (UNC-Asheville) and Ervin Malakaj (Univ. British Columbia) will offer a graduate-student workshop, followed by a department conversation, on Friday, March 3, 2023 at 3p and 4p Central, respectively, on Zoom. The workshop is on "Being in Community: A Relational Model for German Studies," and the conversation is on "Epistemic Flexibility and the Imperative for Community in...
2023-02-16 - Kaffeestunde will be wunderbar in Fall 2023! We meet at Espresso Royale on Goodwin and Oregon in Urbana on Wednesdays at 5p. Join us for lively German conversation--all levels welcome! Some instructors offer extra credit for attendance. Questions? Contact Andrew Schwenk...
2023-02-13 - The Renaissance Society of America (RSA) awards various prizes for excellence each year. Congratulations to GLL Professor Emerita Mara Wade, who, together with her team, received one of this year's Digital Innovation Awards! The RSA’s Digital Innovation Award recognizes excellence in digital projects that support the study of the Renaissance. This year two prizes have been...
2023-01-30 - Prof. Priscilla Layne (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill) will speak on Friday, February 3, 2023 at 3p Central, over Zoom. The lecture is entitled "The Kids are Alright: Futurity and Black German Childhood in Schwarzrund's Biskaya (2017)." This talk is the first in our lecture series "Making a Difference in German and Scandinavian Studies." For Zoom information, please...
2022-07-30 - Meet some of our current MA and PhD students here! And learn much more about our graduate programs and life as a graduate student at Illinois.
2022-07-28 - Sophia Ebel double-majored in German Studies and in Comparative and World Literature, with minors in French and Arabic. She graduated in May 2022, and has won a Fulbright grant to teach English and conduct research in Austria in 2022-2023! At UIUC, Sophia served as president of UIUC Deutschklub, was a Chancellor's Scholar in the Campus Honors Program, and was a member of Illinois Rowing...