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April 2, 2021
In 2014, Dr. Romedio Schmitz-Esser published a comprehensive study on the corpse in the Middle Ages (second edition 2016). With the help of grant support, Dr. Albrecht Classen and former PhD student Carolin Radtke carried out the task of translating…
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April 2, 2021
We are proud to announce that two German Studies majors have won prestigious scholarships!
Alexandra Johnson, who is majoring in German and Anthropology, was awarded the David Evans and Lucille C. Nutt Scholarship.
Karma Lee-Mane, who is majoring in…
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March 23, 2021
Prof. Classen is not only a scholar of medieval and early modern literature, he has also published nine volumes of poetry and three volumes of prose. His most recent German-language essays on life in the US, Wildgewordenes Amerika: Berichte aus dem…
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March 1, 2021
If you are a German minor, read on to see what this will mean for you (it's all good stuff!).
Reduction of overall required units from 23 to 20 beyond 102 (9 of which still have to be upper division credit, like before)!
No more minor tracks (…
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Feb. 11, 2021
Professor Warner and her collaborators, Carl Blyth (U. of Texas, Austin) and Joanna Luks (Cornell), recently published a chapter as part of the volume "Share Open Education and Second Language Learning and Teaching: The Rise of a New Knowledge…
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Feb. 5, 2021
Doch! Jein! Backpfeifengesicht! Check out our students' favorite German words and why they love studying German in this YouTube video featuring Dr. McGregor and our fabulous students!
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Jan. 14, 2021
Roland Richter, a revered teacher and mentor in the Department of German Studies at the University of Arizona, passed away in his home in Tucson on November 24, 2020 at the age of 92.
Roland was born in 1928 in Aussig (now Ústí nad Labem) in…
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Dec. 4, 2020
The latest volume of Trans-Lit2, the only journal in North America dedicated to contemporary American literature in German, is out! The journal is featuring new prose texts, poems, and book reviews, and Dr. Albrecht Classen is represented with one…
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Dec. 1, 2020
Please join us in congratulating the winners of the Deutsch macht Spaß video contest! Sophie Applin (pictured), a student in German 101, won first place with her video "I'll tell you about Deutsch." Find all the winners and prizes below:
Sophie…
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Nov. 19, 2020
Professor Chantelle Warner has been awarded a Research Priorities Grant from the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) for the project “Poetics and Play in Language Teaching and Learning: A Multiliteracies Approach.” The…