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UA Study Abroad is excited to announce a new scholarship, the CDH Charitable Foundation Study Abroad Scholarship. With awards up to $8,000 for Spring 2018 semester-long programs, this scholarship aims to diversify the student population studying…

Issue 5.2 of Critical Multilingualism Studies on “Legitimate Speakers in Contested Spaces” went live this week. The new volume includes an introductory essay and eight new articles, each representing diverse contexts and approaches to the nexus of…

This is the first major study to apply ecocritical concepts and theoretical notions for the study of medieval literature focusing on the role of water. The extensive introductory chapter looks at the significance of water globally in the past and…

Watch the talks from previous years: Humanities Week 2016 with Prof. Jacobs: Fatherland & Mother Tongue: German-Jewish Identity in the 21st Century Humanities Week 2015 with Prof. Gramling: Man vs. Machine: Translation in the Digital Age

Did you miss our 2017 Writer-in-Residence Christopher Kloeble? You can watch his reading here. 

Bach's "Coffee Cantata" was part of the 2014 homecoming celebration of the German Studies Department and the COH alumnus of the year, Eric Baker, who graduated from our department in 1984, went on to get his MA and JD and is now working in Manhattan…

Geschichten vom Fliehen und Ankommen | Stories of Escaping and Arriving: A Project of the Department of German Studies under the direction of Dr. Simone Seym, D.E.A., with the students of GER 416 (Spring 2017). Performed on April 20, 2017 in the…

"Freiheit mit Sporen" is the title of Christopher Kloeble's article in Die Zeit. Read it here. 

"...in der first street, im gelben haus, hausen germanisten..." Michael Speier, our Writer-in-Residence in 2016, wrote a poem about his time in Tucson that you can read here. 

A translation project by a group of undergraduates and our PhD student Patrick Ploschnitzki that was conducted under the guidance of Dr. Albrecht Classen two years ago has appeared in print this May. Congratulations to everyone involved!