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...
- 2023-06-05 - For the Academic Year 2023-24, GLL doctoral candidates Felix Ayanbode and Zack Hader have been awarded, respectively, the competitive...
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...
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...
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)."...- 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...- Congratulations to John Slattery and Lujun Guo, Winners of SLCL Dissertation Completion Fellowships!2022-04-29 - PhD candidates John Slattery and Lujun Guo have won competitive School of Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics Dissertation Completion Fellowships. John's project is entitled Towards an Intercultural, Intersubjective Concept of Home in Recent German Literature, and his advisor...
2022-04-12 - Come learn more about our graduate students' current work, at the April German Colloquium. All are welcome in FLB 2090B at 3:15p on Friday, April 22.
2022-04-12 - The UIUC German Club will hold an end-of-semester social and its elections for officers for 2022-2023 this Thursday, April 14 from 5-6p in Bevier Lounge (second floor of Bevier Hall). We'll vote on six new executive officers: President, Vice-President, Secretary, Treasurer,...
2021-01-04 - At "Undergraduate Program in German at Illinois Urbana-Champaign," you'll find information about upcoming events, internships, fellowships, study abroad, and all things GLL! Join our online community today!