How do video games shape recent novels? This workshop invites students to discuss their own experiences with games while exploring short excerpts from contemporary fiction by Tonio Schachinger, Juan S. Guse, and Gabrielle Zevin. Together, we will examine how novels engage with gaming cultures,...
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;...
Chidera Ezeokoli, a second-year M.A. student in Germanic Languages and Literatures, has been selected as one of eight Great Lakes Transatlantic Fellows for 2026. Sponsored by the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Washington, DC, the fellowship brings master’s and doctoral students from across the...
Irene Kuo earned her Ph.D. in German Studies from Stanford University and served as a Visiting Professor at Wake Forest University before joining the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research and teaching focuses on 21st century German literature, forced migration narratives,...
Multidirectional, Transnational, and Postauthoritarian Memories and the Literatures of Europe’s Eastern Borderlands (from the Baltic to the Caucasus), special issue of Monatshefte (U. Of Wisconsin P.), edited by Aura Heydenreich and Carl Niekerk, volume 118, issue 1 (Spring 2026)....
Andrew Sternhagen Schwenk was recently selected as this year's winner of the German Quarterly Graduate Student Paper Award. An edited version of his submission is slated to appear in German Quarterly in 2026. This upcoming article "Melusine, ...
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;...
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...
