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M.A. Student Contact zoe.levson@mail.utoronto.ca  Background I completed my Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Toronto in 2023, specializing in Philosophy and minoring in Yiddish. My interests include Yiddish poetry, Yiddish translations of German philosophy, and chess. Read More »

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M.A. Student Contact owen.meunier@mail.utoronto.ca  Courses GER100Y1 Y LEC0401 Tue/Thur 11 am – 1 pm Office Hours TR 1-2 pm (in person) Background Graduated from his Bachelor of Commerce in June of 2023 specializing in Management with a focus in International Business and Leadership in Organizations. Owen further completed a double minor in German Studies and Economics. He is currently pursuing a Master’s in German Literature, Culture, and Theory. Owen’s research interests include machine-based translation and evolutionary linguistics. Coming from a small town in Northern Ontario, he was eager to travel the world and experience different cultures. Through his travels, he developed a musical ear for languages which inspired his studies in the Spanish and German languages. Owen’s time working in Berlin and studying in Kassel further piqued his interest in the German language and culture. Publications Meunier, Owen. “Die Deutsche Sprache – Auf Dem Weg Zur Inklusion.” UBC Augenblick, 28 Feb. 2023.  Read More »

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M.A. Student Contact somaia.mostafa@mail.utoronto.ca Office Hours Tue & Thu 12:30-2, OH307 Read More »

PhD Candidate Contact florian.geddes@mail.utoronto.ca Courses 2025-26 GER 300Y1 L0101 Intermediate German II, MW 11am–1pm GER 401HS L0101 Advanced German II, TR 9–11am BMS 331H1S The History of the Book: Elements of Bibliography and Print Culture, W 3–5pm Office Hours Mondays, 2–3pm Odette Hall, Room 307 Research My dissertation focuses on late medieval and early modern German heroic poetry collections known as “Heldenbücher” (working title: The Making of the ‘Book of Heroes’ (15th/16th c.): Textuality, Materiality, and the History of the Book). In my research, I combine literary theory with methods from the field of book history, thus reading the corpus of the Books of Heroes not only as compilations of poetic texts but also as material artifacts. As a result, my work revolves around the production and reception of heroic poetry between manuscript and print culture, transformation and adaptation processes throughout the textual history of individual poems, and the many ways in which manual labor, material, and text intersected in creating the Books of Heroes. As part of a five-year project on “Medieval Undergrounds” (PI: Prof. Markus Stock) generously funded by the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, I work on literary and visual representations of the subterranean in Middle High ... Read More »

PhD Student Office Hours tba Contact hannah.robinson@mail.utoronto.ca  Background My research focusses on the representation of multilinguals in Medieval German Literature and explores pre-modern perspectives on the intersection of language and identity prior to the rise of nationalism. My project aims to work against the dominant perspective that multilingualism is a modern concern; rather, I hope to show how both the benefits and anxieties surrounding multilinguals are clearly represented in and have shaped German literature from its very inception. Languages have always been my passion. During my BA [H] at the University of Windsor, I won a DAAD Undergraduate Scholarship to study a year abroad at the University of Heidelberg in order to take classes in Old and Middle High German. In 2018, I completed an MA from the University of Toronto’s Centre for Medieval Studies where I studied an array of medieval languages including Latin, Old English, Old Norse, Old Irish, and Middle Welsh. In 2020, I earned a CELTA certificate from the University of Cambridge and taught English as a Second Language for several years before I returned to academia for a second MA at the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures in 2024. My major research paper “Transgressive ... Read More »

PhD candidate Contact info miriam.schwartz@mail.utoronto.ca Office Hours By appointment. Current Courses GER260 Elementary Yiddish Background Miriam Schwartz is a PhD candidate in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures and the collaborative program with the Anne Tanenbaum Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto. Her research explores the representation of speech in Jewish literature written in Yiddish and Hebrew during the first half of the twentieth century, in Eastern Europe, Israel, and North and South America. She focuses on issues of translation, orality, and ideology. Prior to joining the University of Toronto, Miriam earned her BA in Literature and MA in Yiddish Literature at Tel Aviv University. Read More »