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This is an open invitation to graduate students and faculty in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures to join a session of... Read More »

The Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures stands in solidarity with Ukraine and the Ukrainian people in their fight against the Russian invasion. We condemn the unprovoked acts of aggression of the Russian Federation and Belarus in the strongest possible terms. We are deeply concerned about the growing humanitarian crisis and the violence and hardships to which the population of Ukraine is being subjected. We join the world in standing behind Ukraine and hope for a swift end of the war and restoration of peace in Europe. Read More »

Nobel Prize-winning German author Günter Grass passed away on April 13. Read More »

The German Studies Students' Union just published its Undergraduate Journal of German Studies Zeitgeist online... Read More »

Professor John Zilcosky has been promoted to the rank of Full Professor. Read More »

Learning German can be more than studying grammar and memorising vocabulary. It can also mean discovering the culture of German-speaking countries, spending the summer in the tri-border region of Germany's biggest lake in the heart of Europe, making international friends and gaining ECTS credits for it! Read More »

John Noyes won a twelve-month National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) fellowship for his project "The Legacy of Johann Gottfried Herder's Theories of Cultural Difference and Universal Reason" (2015-2016). Read More »

Teresa Sudenis is a PhD Student in our Department. She studied German Philology in Wrocław (Poland) and wrote her Master’s thesis on Günter Grass’ Der Butt. Her family is of German origin and lives in Silesia, a province now located in the part of South Poland which belonged to East German territories until the end of the Second World War. Read More »

Apply now for the 2015-16 graduate program Read More »

With the current year slowly coming to an end, application deadlines for various DAAD-opportunities for spending productive time in Germany are also starting to approach. Most deadlines are December 15, 2014. Start your application as soon as possible! Read More »