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March 10, 2011
If you’re feeling a bit out of your element, you’re in the right place. The event “Fisch Out of Water” was designed to celebrate the aesthetic uniqueness that your native tongue brings to your foreign language—quirks, trips of the tongue…
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March 1, 2011
Social networking in the 18th century was every bit as elaborate, dramatic, and rich a cultural phenomenon as it is today. Wilhelm Heinse's 1787 epistolary painter-novel Ardinghello and the Blissful Islands is an unruly and precarious literary-…
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Feb. 8, 2011
Although we often think that scholars have ploughed through all available archives and libraries for important texts or images from the past, that is not true. A recent case was Professor Albrecht Classen’s rediscovery of the poetry and music by the…
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Jan. 19, 2011
Professor Classen was recently elected Vice President/President Elect of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA). RMMLA is a regional organization, one of six independent branches of the Modern Language Association of America. The non…
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Jan. 7, 2011
German Studies Profs. David Gramling and Chantelle Warner have published their co-authored article “Toward a Contact Pragmatics of Literature: Habitus, Text, and the Advanced L2 Classroom" in the 2010 AAUSC volume Critical and Intercultural Theory…
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Jan. 3, 2011
Professor Albrecht Classen took his class German 430 Crossing Borders/Crossing Cultures on an excursion in November 2010 to San Xavier del Bac, south of Tucson, which used to be one of the many missions that the Jesuit Padre Eusebio Kino had founded…
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Nov. 24, 2010
UA Distinguished Professor Albrecht Classen has edited a three-part reference volume meant to provide readers with a broad understanding of contemporary research in medieval studies. Albrecht Classen set out more than six years ago on a major…
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March 15, 2010
2008-09 has been a very active, busy, and productive year for the German Studies Department. In addition to the seven tenured members in the Department, we started the year with two new assistant professors, one adjunct professor, six M.A. students…
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March 9, 2010
Two of our German Studies minors have been honored with the annual Pillars of Excellence for outstanding studient scholars award.
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Digitale Ringvorlesung zum 100. Todestag | Virtual Lecture Series on the Centennial of His Death
Save the Dates: 15. April, 29. April, 13. Mai, 27. Mai, 10. Juni, 24. Juni, 8. Juli, 22…