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The School of Graduate Studies just featured PhD Candidate Marlo Burks' profile... Read More »

Read Hannah Pollin-Galay's article about the concert "Defending the Homeland: Rare Yiddish Songs of WWII" held at the "8th Annual Toronto German Studies Symposium 2015: Global Yiddish Culture, 1938 – 1948" in April 2015... Read More »

German Department alumna Dr. Linda Dietrick, Associate Professor of German Studies and Acting Chair of the Modern Languages and Literatures Department at the University of Winnipeg, was awarded the prestigious Boeschenstein Medal... Read More »

Our Department has a new continuous faculty member, effective 1 July 2015: Dr. Hang-Sun Kim. Hang-Sun Kim received an MA degree in Germanic Languages and Literatures from the University of Toronto (2003) and holds a PhD degree in Germanic Languages and Literatures from Harvard University (2012). Read More »

Max, von dem hier die Rede ist, ist immer mit seiner Heimat verbunden gewesen, aber er ist auf andere Menschen, auf fremde Sitten und Sprachen neugierig geworden und hat sich in der Welt umgesehen... Read More »

German Department Alumni Ambassador and Executive in Residence Joan Andersen just won an Arbor Award... Read More »

Malka Green, a long-time friend, supporter and alumna of the University of Toronto, passed away on June 21, 2015. Read More »

Congratulations to Marlo Burks, who was appointed the first ever Amilcare Ianucci Graduate Fellowship in the Humanities... Read More »

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 »