Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures University of Toronto

A former Ray D. Wolfe Postdoctoral Fellow for Jewish Studies in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Toronto (2011-2013), Rachel Seelig returned to our department as a visiting scholar... Read More »

New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/13/world/europe/germany-merkel-trump-election.html?_r=0 Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/angela-merkel-germany-donald-trump-us-election-warning_uk_582313c5e4b020461a1e8713 Der Spiegel: http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/angela-merkel-reagiert-auf-wahlsieg-von-donald-trump-a-1120489.html Die Zeit: http://www.zeit.de/politik/ausland/2016-11/angela-merkel-donald-trump-zusammenarbeit Read More »

Please join us for our next Kaffeestunde on Thursday, December 1 at 1 p.m. Read More »

Please join us for our next Kaffeestunde on Thursday, March 3 at 1 p.m. Read More »

Professor ROLF J. GOEBEL, Ph. D., is Distinguished Professor of German and Chair of the Dept. of World Languages and Cultures at the University of Alabama in Huntsville... Read More »

Due to illness, the guest reading by Ilija Trojanow on March 24, 2016, 4 pm had to be cancelled. We apologize for the inconvenience. Read More »

Apply now for the 2017-18 graduate program Read More »

Please check out our 2016 Departmental Newsletter... Read More »

Fact and Fiction explores the intersection between literature and the sciences, focusing on German and British culture between the eighteenth century and today. Observing that it was in the eighteenth century that the divide between science and literature as disciplines first began to be defined, the contributors to this collection probe how authors from that time onwards have assessed and affected the relationship between literary and scientific cultures... Read More »