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On Sept. 26-29 2024, the German Studies Association (GSA) hosted its forty-eighth annual conference in Atlanta, Georgia. Multiple faculty members and graduate students from the Department of German Studies attended and were even represented through…

Please join us in congratulating Thomas Noth, who is the College of Humanities 2024 Young Professional Achievement Award recipient! Thomas completed his double major in German Studies and Psychology in 2018, as well as earned a master's degree in…

Please join us in congratulating Sebastian Brinks, who successfully defended his dissertation titled "Zwischen Annäherung und Distanzierung - zum Umgang mit Mittelalterlichem Erzählen in Neuerzählungen Mittelalterlicher Erzähltexte". Sebastian…

We are delighted to announce that Dr. Albrecht Classen has been honored as Highly Ranked Scholar by ScholarGPS! You can find the full article on the College of Humanities website. Congratulations on this achievement, Dr. Classen!

Dr. Albrecht Classen is happy to report the publication of his latest book: Nature in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Times: Exploration of a Critical Relationship, ed. Albrecht Classen. Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture, 29 (…

Recent alum David Asad (BA German Studies; BS Ecology & Evolutionary Biology; minor in Entomology) has received a competitive English teaching assistantship (USTA) position through the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research…

This summer, our MA student Gideon Kiptoo took part in the Goethe-Institut Summer Academy, including a visit to the Zentrum für Lehrerbildung, Schul- und Berufsbildungsforschung (ZLSB) at the Technische Universität Dresden. Gideon reports that the…

Dr. Joela Jacobs co-edited and contributed to a recently released biography of Oskar Panizza through Edition Text + Kritik. You can learn more about the book here: https://www.etk-muenchen.de/search/Details.aspx?sort=1&q=joela+jacobs&I… 

The recently announced partnership between the departments of German Studies in Tucson, Leipzig, and Nairobi has begun! The Universität Leipzig published an article on this Germanistische Institutspartnerschaft (GIP), detailing some of the exchanges…

What a joy to celebrate our two most recent graduates! We would like to congratulate Jennifer Gwasira, who is graduating with her MA this semester, and Dr. Thomas Fuhr, who graduated with his PhD last year. (Since then, Thomas has also rejoined our…