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On Wednesday, February 5th, Professor Markus Stock was installed as the 17th Principal of University College. Congratulations! Read More »

Stefan Willer is full professor of modern German literature at Humboldt University Berlin. From 2010 to 2018 he was associate director of the Center for Literary and Cultural Research (ZfL) Berlin. He held visiting professorships at Munich, EHESS Paris, UNAM Mexico City, Stanford and UC Santa Barbara... Read More »

The literary works of Marlen Haushofer and Sibylle Berg intersect in their avoidance of “happy endings”, their accounts of death, destruction, and apocalyptic events as well as their portrayals of failing ideals such as romantic love and the concept of family... Read More »

Irrespective of whether Leichtgläubigkeit (gullibility) is a positive or negative term, connotationally it compels us to pick a side, and thus favours partiality in the directions of Vorurteil... Read More »

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First published in 1976, John Koster's superb English translation of Hermann Levin Goldschmidt's Contradiction Set Free, (Freiheit für den Widerspruch) has just been released by Bloomsbury with an introduction by Willi Goetschel... Read More »

Professor Shternshis has been awarded a six-month research fellowship with the Jackman Humanities Institute to pursue a project entitled “Last Yiddish Heroes... Read More »

Congratulations to Christine Lehleiter who has been awarded a Humboldt Fellowship for her project ‘Stimulus, Response, Behavior: Habit at the Intersection of Nature and Culture (1750-1850)’ Read More »

Congratulations to John Zilcosky and Marlo Burks on the publication of their new book The Allure of Sports in Western Culture... Read More »