Graduate Conference hosted by the Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures at the University of Toronto. Date: 26-28 April 2018 Location: Munk School of Global Affairs, 2 Devonshire Place, University of Toronto Keynote Speaker: Prof. Peter Schweppe, Sewanee University Submission Deadline: 20 December 2017 Read More »
Nicole Perry, PhD, is a lecturer in German at the University of Auckland, and is a Lise Meitner Fellow (2013-17), funded by the Austrian Scientific Fund... Read More »
Congratulations to first year PhD student, Rita Laszlo, who just published at Telos, a journal for politics, philosophy, critical theory, and culture... Read More »
The objective of our initiative ‘Where are they now?’ is to create a forum or a bridge for German alumni to share their career stories with current students, and for students to ask alumni questions about careers. We kicked off the project in June 2017, by emailing German alumni, asking them if they would be willing to share their career stories with current students of German studies. Response was very positive, with over 15 alumni from a wide variety of careers, inside and outside of academia, indicating their interest in participating. This project was led by Joan Andersen, as part of her volunteer position as Alumni Ambassador and Executive in Residence. Joan is a German alumna of the University of Toronto, and moved into a career outside of German studies after graduating with a Master’s Degree. Joan conducted a telephone or email interview with each participant with the objective or drafting a 5-8 minute long article profiling his/her career. We will publish one or two ‘Career Profile’ articles every month which we hope our readers will find informative and maybe even inspirational. We welcome your feedback on this initiative by sending Joan an email at j.andersen.ma@gmail.com Our second article profiles ... Read More »
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Please check out our 2017 Departmental Newsletter... Read More »
To get your guest lecture advertised on a poster and the website, please send Here are two examples as reminders: with a picture of the person giving the talk and with a picture related to the topic Read More »
Please visit the SGS website for all forms and letter templates you may need. Among others, you will find the following forms: Read More »
If you would like to invite faculty from abroad to the Department and received approval from the Chair, please ask the Visiting Faculty to send us the following Read More »
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