Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures University of Toronto

The German Studies Students Union cordially invites you to attend a lecture delivered by Marlo Burks... Read More »

Please join us for our next Kaffeestunde on Friday, March 17 at 2 p.m. Read More »

Please join us for our next Kaffeestunde on Friday, November 18 at 2 p.m. Read More »

Frauke Berndt is Professor of German Literature at the University of Zürich. Her books include Anamnesis. Studien zur Topik der Erinnerung in der erzählenden Literatur zwischen 1800 und 1900... Read More »

Assistant Professor of American literature at Sorbonne-Nouvelle University (Paris III) since 2012, PIERRE-LOUIS PATOINE is the author of a book on the role of the empathic, physiological body in the experience of reading (ENS Editions, 2015)... Read More »

Anna Shternshis and Psoy Korolenko discuss her Yiddish Glory Project, the process of recovering and presenting Soviet Yiddish Holocaust Music on the radio in the United States... Read More »

John K. Noyes Wins prestigious Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Germanic Languages and Literatures for his book, Herder: Aesthetics against Imperialism, published by the University of Toronto Press. Read More »

28/29/30 November 2016, 7:30 PM, Georg Ignatieff Theatre (6 Hoskin Avenue) Read More »

Kafka’s stories allude to his culture with a fullness that is astonishing when one considers their economy of form. This work of allusion, a sort of movement through the cultural vehicles or media of his time, conforms to several logics... Read More »

Side-by-side writing works as follows: It is not a writing feedback group. It’s just a way to make writing progress while hanging out with friends and colleagues (this is also known as: zwei Fliegen auf einen Streich). Read More »