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;...

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,...

The talk reads Goethe’s Faust as a drama deeply concerned with unconscious practices of power – forms of influence, constraint, and self-constraint that operate beneath the level of explicit moral reasoning. Centering gender and social hierarchy, it argues that the play turns Margarete...

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;...

Check out this page for more information about GLL's Fall 2026 offerings. Add a German major or minor, fulfill General Education...

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...

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