Author Archives: Department of German

Departmental Calendar 2023-24

Departmental Meetings 1st Departmental Meeting: Thursday, 28 September 2023, 4-6pm 2nd Departmental Meeting: Thursday, 16 November 2023, 4-6pm 3rd Departmental Meeting: Thursday, 25 January 2024, 4-6pm 4th Departmental Meeting: Thursday, 7 March 2024, 4-6pm Faculty Meetings 1st Faculty Meeting: Thursday, 19 October 2023, 4-6pm 2nd Faculty Meeting: Thursday, 15 February 2024, 4-6pm Kaffeestunde Every first Thursday of the month, 1-2pm, and third Friday of the month, 2-3pm, Odette Hall 301 Events & important dates Side-by-Side Writing: Mondays & Wednesdays, 10am-12pm Fall Reading Week: November 6-10, 2023 9th Annual DAAD German Language Teaching and Learning Workshop: December 8, 9am-6pm Spring Reading Week: February 19-23, 2024 Graduate Student Research Colloquium (Spring): April 11, 2024, 4-6pm Read More »

Yiddish in the City Virtual Internships (Ontario Jewish Archives)

Dear Yiddish Students, The iPRAKTIKUM team is pleased to announce yet another great opportunity with “Yiddish in the City”, this time with the Ontario Jewish Archives. The program identifies needs in the broader Toronto community which can be fulfilled by a University of Toronto Yiddish student. This will be an opportunity to gain professional credentials as well as connect to the local Jewish community. Your internship experience can be accredited in the form of a Co-Curricular Record (CCR) that will appear on your U of T transcript. This is a paid opportunity that will take place remotely. The Ontario Jewish Archives – OJA – is the largest repository of Jewish life in Canada. Founded in 1973, the OJA acquires, preserves and makes accessible the records that chronicle Ontario’s Jewish history. A significant portion of the OJA’s collection is in Yiddish, the language of the majority of Jewish immigrants who settled in Ontario in the early to mid-twentieth century. Students will gain valuable field experience with hands-on archival work, including describing, and translating records, and producing digital content (such as blog and social media posts) highlighting Yiddish records in the collection. Priority will be given to those students who are adept at working with ... Read More »

Erol M. Boran

Associate Professor of German, Teaching Stream Contact info erol.boran@utoronto.ca Office University of Toronto Odette Hall 309 50 St. Joseph Street Toronto, ON M5S 3L5 Phone: 416-926-2317 Secretary: 416-926-2324 Classes 2023-2024 Summer GER354Y A Tale of More than Two Cities (summer abroad course taught in Berlin) Fall GER100Y Introduction to German GER194H Our Vampires, Ourselves GER334H Turkish-German Intersections Winter GER205H German Literature 1 GER336H Focus on Berlin GER401HS Advanced German 2 Office Hours Tue 3-4pm & Thur 2-3pm Background M.A. Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg 1996 Ph.D. Ohio State University 2004 Erol Boran offers courses on German literature, language and theater, and directs the German student theater, Theater DU. He is a recipient of the Faculty of Arts and Science Outstanding Teaching Award (2019) and the Innovate German Award by the Canadian Association of University Teachers of German (2020). He recently completed the manuscript of a 1000-page German fantasy novel and is now in the process of revising it. His academic book, Die Geschichte des türkisch-deutschen Theaters und Kabaretts, was released in December 2022 with transcript Verlag. For more information, see his personal website. Book Erol M. Boran: Die Geschichte des türkisch deutschen Theaters und Kabaretts. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 2022. Article Erol M. Boran: “Faces of Contemporary Turkish-German Kabarett – ... Read More »

Josh Dittrich

Sessional Lecturer Contact info josh.dittrich@utoronto.ca Office Odette Hall 312 St. Michael’s College University of Toronto 50 St. Joseph Street Toronto, ON M5S 3L5 Phone 416-926-2319 Fax: 416-926-2329 Secretary: 416-926-2324 Office Hours Fall 2016: Tue 1:00 - 3:00 Classes 2016-17 GER6000HF Reading German for Graduate Students Read More »