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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 »

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 »

Tobias-René Wilczek is a third-year undergraduate student of German Studies and Philosophy. The Germany/Europe Fund from the Faculty of Arts and Science at the University of Toronto will help him to conduct research on "Transnational" and "Exilliteratur" in Berlin and Bucharest, focusing predominantly on the works of German-Romanian Nobel Prize laureate Herta Müller and the works of Bertolt Brecht. A comparative component will also be part of this project. Read More »