Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures University of Toronto

The booking sheets for the department library, OH307, OH312, and the lounge are now live online in Outlook. Everyone in the department should have access to view the Outlook calendars for these rooms. To make a booking, please: Check the room’s availability in the Outlook calendar.If the room is available on the desired date and time, please email german.undergradadmin@utoronto.ca to request the booking. In your email, kindly include the following details:   Room booking purposeDesired booking date and timeIf the booking is recurring, please specify the start and end dates, as well as the repeat frequency Any additional notes (if applicable) If you are new to the department and do not have access to the room calendars, please email german.undergradadmin@utoronto.ca to request access. Read More »

Course Instructor Faculty of Arts & Science Postdoctoral Fellow in the Centre for Medieval Studies Contact landon.reitz@utoronto.ca Office Hours Tue. and Thurs. 3-4 in Lillian Massey Building, 314A Classes 2025-26 GER 300Y L0201 Intermediate German II, Winter 2026 Background Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley MA University of California, Berkeley BA University of Pennsylvania Research Interests Looking Up from the Page: Imaginative Medieval Reading Practices This project examines the historical role of the fictional reader in the hermeneutic, media-technological, and aesthetic developments of medieval German literature. I analyze scenes of reading and other representations of reading within medieval texts to examine this evolving cultural practice during the technological, cultural, scientific, and religious transformations of the European Middle Ages. Amid the digitalization of our modern reading practices and reading cultures, my research into the literary representations of reading demonstrates how, historically, reading practices, developments in media and technology, and imaginative literature have shaped the practice of reading as well as its function in society. The Futures of the Medieval World This transdisciplinary project explores the cultural practices of the European Middle Ages that engaged and engendered conceptions of the future. It investigates medieval means for gathering knowledge about the future, practices that ... Read More »

Course Instructor Contact antonio.vivone@mail.utoronto.ca avivone@mail.uni-paderborn.de Office Hours Thursday 2-6 pm Classes 2025-26 GER100Y Introduction to German, Fall 2025 Departments’ Affiliation Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures Curriculum, Teaching and Learning Program (CTL) at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) Department of Psychology, University of Toronto Scarborough Academic Background PhD Candidate B. Mus., Conservatorio di Musica Giuseppe Martucci Salerno, 2017 B. Ed., Universitá degli Studi di Salerno, 2019 M. Mus., Conservatorio di Musica Giuseppe Martucci Salerno, 2019 M. Ed., Universität Duisburg-Essen and Folkwang Universität der Künste, 2022 Recent Publications Vivone, A., Rumlich, D., & Lehmann-Wermser, A. (2025). Enhancing multi-word units learning through vocal training with authentic pop songs in the context of English as a foreign language. The Language Learning Journal, 14(2), 50-65. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23735082.2025.2501043?src= Vivone, A., & Mantie, R. (2025-submitted). Modality Matters: Effects of Singing, Vocal, and Instrumental Exposure on Involuntary Musical Imagery in Adolescents in the School Context. Psychology of Music. Sage Journal. Vivone, A. (2024). Identifying musical and linguistic features triggering involuntary musical imagery: An eco-empirical study with pupils and teenagers in an educational context. In Innovación docente e investigación en educación: Desafíos de la enseñanza y aprendizaje en la educación superior. Dykinson. https://www.dykinson.com/media/pdf/indice978-84-1070-927-0.pdf Scholarships Die Heinrich Hertz Stiftung 2025 Die Uwe ... Read More »

Executive Committee Stefan Soldovieri (Chair, ex officio) Angelica Fenner (ex officio) Hang-Sun Kim (ex officio) Fall Stefana Gargova (ex officio) Spring Policy Committee Stefan Soldovieri (Chair, ex officio) Angelica Fenner (ex officio) Hang-Sun Kim (ex officio) (Fall) Stefana Gargova (ex officio) (Spring) Erol Boran (elected member) John Zilcosky (elected member) Faculty Representative on the Arts & Science Council John Zilcosky Graduate Program Committee Angelica Fenner (Chair, ex officio) Tobias Hof Willi Goetschel (Fall) John Zilcosky (Spring) Student Representative: tba Undergraduate Curriculum Committee Hang-Sun Kim (Chair, ex officio) (Fall) / Stefana Gargova (Acting Chair, ex officio) (Spring) Erol Boran Student Representative: tba Grants & Fellowship Subcommittee Angelica Fenner (Chair, Ex Officio) Tobias Hof Stefan Soldovieri Placement Subcommittee Hang-Sun Kim (Chair, ex officio) (Fall) Stefana Gargova (Acting Chair, ex officio) (Spring) Erol Boran (elected member) International Liaison Erol Boran (Fall) Departmental Liaison to Goethe-Institut Hang-Sun Kim (Fall) / Stefana Gargova (Spring) PTR Committee Stefan Soldovieri (Chair) Angelica Fenner (ex officio) Stefana Gargova (ex officio) Erol Boran (elected member) CERES/JIGES Representative Stefan Soldovieri Oral Defense Chairs Committee Stefan Soldovieri French Exam Designate Willi Goetschel Yiddish Program Committee Willi Goetschel SGS Graduate Fellowship Reviewer Designate Willi Goetschel Organizer, Graduate Research Colloquium Angelica Fenner GSSU ... Read More »

Course Instructor Contact info tanya.humeniuk@mail.utoronto.ca Office Hours TBD Courses Fall 2025 Multilingual German Lab Winter 2026 GER100Y Introduction to German Background MA (Comparative Literature) University of Toronto, 2023 / BSc Double Major (Mathematics and German Studies) University of Toronto, 2022 / BA (Philosophy) Simon Fraser University, 2017  Research Interests Freudian/Lacanian Psychoanalysis, Formalization, Mathematical Logic, Experimental and Non-Totalizing Literary Forms Read More »

Faculty of Arts and Science Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures Contact info Ina.Karkani@utoronto.ca Office University of Toronto Odette Hall 303 50 St. Joseph Street Toronto, ON M5S 3L5   Office Hours By Appointment Classes 2025-26 Winter 2026: GER251H German and European Cinema: Weimar Cinema History, Theory, Culture Background Ina Karkani (M.A, M.A. Ph.D) is a postdoctoral fellow and lecturer of film studies. She is currently researching sound practices in minor and community cinemas. She is also a film studies lecturer at the Theatre and Film Department at Freie Universität Berlin, where she received her Ph.D. in cinema for her thesis, “Animalizing Film Form: A Creaturely Approach to Film Aesthetics”. Her research focuses on posthuman and decolonial film aesthetics, Native and Indigenous studies, film animal studies, feminist eco-critical studies, and affect studies. From 2021 to 2024, she held a research position as a film scholar in the interdisciplinary GRK 2638 ‘Normativität-Kritik-Wandel’ at Freie Universität Berlin. She was a funded visiting scholar at the Andean Indigenous Institute Apulaya in Calca, Peru, in 2022 and at the cinema department of the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 2023. Since 2019, she has been working as a freelance film selection committee member for the ... Read More »