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July 24, 2018
"Das Fenster zur Welt (The Window to the World) (2013) chronicles the friendship between two grieving individuals: the eighty-year-old Hanna, who is reevaluating her life after the death of her elderly mother, and the much younger Michael, who is…
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July 21, 2018
“Monolingualism just won’t cut it if you want to know what the world is singing and saying in its stories, myths, legends, and lyrics,” said David Gramling, UA associate professor of German Studies. “I have such hope for the boundless creativity and…
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July 18, 2018
German professors David Gramling, Yuliya Komska, and Michelle Moyd have published Linguistic Obedience: Restoring Power to Civic Language. This book asks how we—as citizens, immigrants, activists, teachers—can counter the abuse of language in our…
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May 14, 2018
We are celebrating our MA and PhD Graduates and are wishing them all the best for their future endeavors. Please join us in congratulating: Agnes Cšer, PhD Jesse Archbold, MA Stephanie Della Cella, MA Jessi Long, MA Amalie Sielaff, MA
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May 2, 2018
The National Center for Interpretation awarded two graduate student fellowships to SLAT PhD Candidate Amanda Snell and Transcultural German Studies PhD Student Patrick Ploschnitzki. Please join us in congratulating Amanda and Patrick, and read more…
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April 19, 2018
See which courses we are offering this summer in the attached overview or in our course schedule. We have language courses and GenEds, both online and in person.
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April 4, 2018
As we are nearing graduation, our MA and PhD candidates are successfully taking their exams and defending their dissertations. We are so proud of their achievements and are celebrating our Spring graduates Amalie Sielaff, Stephanie Della Cella,…
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March 28, 2018
Please join us in congratulating our Masters student colleague Jesse Archbold on receiving the Stafania Gray Graduate Presentation Award by the University of New Mexico Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures for his talk Depicting the…
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March 28, 2018
"Anything you can say can also be said casually" (Elfriede Gerstl, "Spielräume"). In February 2018, departmental Writer-in-Residence Nika Pfeifer and PhD Candidate Lydia Heiss adapted the online class CAFÉ GERSTL, usually offered by Augusta Laar and…
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Feb. 18, 2018
The Humanities Matter Scholarship is awarded to one winner and one honorable mention each academic year. University of Arizona undergraduate students enrolled in majors or minors offered by the College of Humanities are eligible to apply. Awardees…