News

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!

This month, meet some of our undergraduate students and learn about their accomplishments!

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…

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…

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…

Please join us in congratulating Dr. Janice McGregor on her promotion to Associate Professor with tenure! We are absolutely thrilled about this well-deserved recognition of Dr. McGregor's excellence in research, teaching, and service and are…

We are delighted to congratulate Dr. Christina Becher on her new job at the Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt am Main! For the upcoming summer semester at the university, she will be teaching two introductory courses on modern German literature,…