Congratulations to Fellowship Winners!

For the Academic Year 2024-2025, GLL MA students Marie Jensen and Jaider De La Hoz have been awarded, respectively, the “Edelweiss Scholarship” and...

Congratulations to Jared Evan Cohen!

GLL PhD. Student Jared Evan Cohen won The Program in Jewish Culture & Society Karasik Scholarship for the coming academic year 2024-2025 to advance his pre-dissertation research in German-Jewish studies. The scholarship...
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Congratulations to Andrew Schwenk!

GLL doctoral candidate Andrew Schwenk has been awarded a competitive and prestigious Fulbright Fellowship to study in Germany during the academic year 2024-2025. He will be conducting research for his dissertation at the Herzog...

Congratulations to Andrew Schwenk!

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GLL doctoral candidate Andrew Schwenk has been awarded a competitive and prestigious Fulbright Fellowship to study in Germany during the academic year 2024-2025. He will be conducting research for his dissertation at the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel. His dissertation project investigates depictions of travel in the early modern prose novels between 1450-1600. It uses this under-researched theme to shed new light on early modern understandings of Self and Other and social and religious change, thus...
Graduate Research Colloquium

Graduate Research Colloquium

We are pleased to announce the first graduate research colloquium of the academic year for the department of Germanic Languages and Literatures. In two weeks, doctoral candidate Zachary Hader will be delivering a talk entitled “An Introduction to Spectrality through Christoph Ransmayr’s ...
Early Modern German Cultures of the Book

Early Modern German Cultures of the Book

How did German composers brand their music as Venetian? How did the Other fare in other languages, when Cabeza’s Relación of colonial Americas appeared in translations? How did Altdorf emblems travel to colonial America and Sweden? What does Virtue look like in a library...
Emblems in the Free Imperial City

Emblems in the Free Imperial City

Civic virtues were central to early modern Nürnberg’s visual culture. These essays in this volume explore Nürnberg as a location from which to study the intersection of art and power. The imperial city was awash in emblems, and they informed most aspects of everyday life. The intent of this...
The Health Humanities in German Studies

The Health Humanities in German Studies

The first full-length study to bring together the fields of Health Humanities and German studies, this book features contributions from a range of key scholars and provides an overview of the latest work being done at the intersection of these two disciplines. In addition to surveying the current...
Scandinavian Lecture Flyer

“The Journalism of African American Sherman Adams on Race in the Swedish Press of the 1960s, 70s and 80s”

Sherman Adams was born in Atlanta and immigrated to Sweden in the 1960s, where he became a prominent activist and journalist. His memoir, Mitt Amerika (My America), published in 1980, is still well known in Sweden. It gives an account of Adams’s childhood during Jim Crow. The memoir was published...
Max Kade Lecture

Distinguished Max Kade Lecture by Dr. Jakob Christoph Heller

Early Romanticism’s New Old Religions. Tieck, Schlegel, Novalis German Early Romanticism is characterized by a newly awakened interest in religious practices and institutions: Novalis and Friedrich Schlegel exchange letters discussing their desire to write a new Bible. Friedrich...
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