Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures University of Toronto

Professor Christine Lehleiter has been granted tenure at the rank of Associate Professor in our Department, effective July 1, 2015. Read More »

Around 1900, when the last blank spaces on their maps were filled, Europeans traveled to far-flung places hoping to find traces of the spectacularly foreign... Read More »

Please join us for our next Kaffeestunde on Friday, February 20, at 2 p.m. Read More »

Geoffrey Winthrop-Young teaches in the German and Scandinavian programs at the Department of Central, Eastern and Northern European Studies at UBC. Read More »

Nicola Vöhringer will leave Toronto this summer to become the new DAAD lecturer and Director of the DAAD Information Centre... Read More »

Tobias-René Wilczek, a third-year undergraduate student of German Studies and Philosophy, just won a University of Toronto Excellence Award (UTEA). Read More »

Anna Shternshis was successful in two (!) of the most recent SSHRC competitions. Read More »

Hosted by Harbord Collegiate in Toronto, the Ontario High School German Contest enjoyed its 44th edition on April 11th! Read More »

Among his generation of intellectuals, the eighteenth-century German philosopher Johann Gottfried Herder is recognized both for his innovative philosophy of language and history and for his passionate criticism of racism, colonialism, and imperialism... Read More »

Summer 2016 Language Courses Read More »