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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...

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...

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...

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...

2023-02-13 - 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...

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.