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"There are seven poets who have written poems to light up the little universe of the book:  Jane Beal, Gail Berlin, Albrecht Classen, Thom Foy, Katharine Jager, A.J. Odasso, and Katherine Durham Oldmixon (Garza). Each poet has contributed a group of…

German Studies faculty, Dr. Janice McGregor, will be an invited speaker at the University of Calgary on October 25 and 26. Grounded in her research on study abroad, the talk will consider how educators and learners manage language learning and use…

The College of Humanities 2019 Young Professional Achievement Award will be presented to Dr. Megan Lisbeth Strang, who says her study of language and culture was foundational to her career as a pediatric audiologist.   After finishing her bachelor’s…

The Bauhaus was founded in Germany in 1919, during the post-war period when the country was reinventing itself, and the broadly interdisciplinary school would become a profoundly influential force across the 20th century.   This fall, the UA will…

The most recent volume (no. 31) of the reputable peer-reviewed journal contains 11 articles and ca. 150 book reviews that span a wide range of publications in Medieval Studies. You can find the journal and more details here.

Current and recent graduate students from the UA German Studies program - Sina Colditz, Patrick Ploschnitzki, and Chelsea Timlin - have recently been invited to showcase their open educational resources for teaching language and culture as part of a…

Dr. Gramling will join the Board of Directors of the American Literary Translators Association as the liaison to the University of Arizona for a three-year term. Professor Gramling was instrumental in facilitating the recent affiliation of ALTA with…

The 10th annual Tucson Humanities Festival features 10 events offering thought-provoking lectures, panels, readings and films by faculty and special guests, including poet and author Sandra Cisneros.   As new ideas develop and new technologies…

Summer 2019 brought news of many extraordinary successes for our recent MA and PhD graduates, showing how their work has been bearing fruit and garnering recognition around the world. Dr. Lydia Heiss (PhD, D. Phil. in Transcultural German Studies,…

Dr. Joela Jacobs' research on environmental education projects of refugees in Germany, which has been published in two peer-reviewed venues, is currently featured on the "Migrant Knowledge" blog of the German Historical Institute at Berkeley.…