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See the two opportunities below: Weinel Memorial Scholarship The Department of German Studies is inviting applications for several Weinel Memorial Scholarships for juniors, seniors and graduate students, majoring in German Studies. The scholarship…

If you have ever wondered why other languages interact or interfere with your German, check out this presentation on vocabulary acquisition, cross-linguistic influence, and errors that Dr. Peter Ecke recently gave to students and researchers in…

Calling all German students & alumni! Do you love German and learning/using it? Help us out by uploading one or more of the following by the end of the day on October 31 December 9 (deadline extended!) to this Google drive folder. a 5-10 second…

Together with Dr. Erwin Tschirner (University of Leipzig), Dr. Peter Ecke has received a Research Priorities Grant from the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) for the project “Graduate Students’ Language Proficiency…

"Graduate school is by no means easy, but approaching and navigating graduate programs as a first-generation college student presents particular challenges. Achieving an undergraduate degree is momentous on its own, even before tackling a graduate…

The following General Education courses will be offered online this winter session(12/21/20-1/12/21): GER 150B1: Becoming Transcultural: Maximizing Study Abroad, with Dr. Ecke GER 312: War, Death, and the Hero: Medieval Epics: Beowulf,…

In his new collection of essays and satires, Wildgewordenes Amerika, Albrecht Classen reflects on his life in the United States after thirty-six years since his immigration. Things no longer look that fabulous, but who would say that the old home…

On Sept 30, Department of German Studies Graduate Student Patrick Ploschnitzki contributed to a conversation about Sharon Dodua Otoo’s Bachmann Prize winning short story “Herr Gröttrup setzt sich hin” with the author, the moderator Tina Campt, and…

This year, we all have discovered new ways of teaching, learning, and coming together. Dr. David Gramling's podcast "Genau das!" is bringing together people in the field of German studies to discuss what it means to do what they do "under covid."…

A new volume of the journal/yearbook Mediaevistik: Internationale Zeitschrift für interdisziplinäre Mittelalterforschung has appeared in print (vol. 32/2019, printed in July 2020). The journal is edited by our own Dr. Classen, and the topics range…