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Tracing the Trails in the Medieval World: Epistemological Explorations, Orientation, and Mapping in Medieval Literature is a book on tracing and mapping as epistemological tools in pan-European medieval literature, focusing on the various…

Austrian writer Judith Nika Pfeifer’s 2017 novel Violante will be featured as part of the Sant Jordi Festival with a focus on the Mediterranean diet because by happy coincidence, Violante di Cardona—the main character of Nika Pfeifer’s stunning…

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…

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…

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…

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 (…

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…

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! 

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…