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MA Student Contact info mark.morrisonreed@mail.utoronto.ca Read More »

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 GER 300: Intermediate German II, MW 10am-12pm Office Hours Tue 1-3pm Background My dissertation focuses on the corpus of late medieval and early modern books of heroes (working title: The Making of the ‘Book of Heroes’ (15th/16th c.): Textuality, Materiality, and the History of the Book), combining literary analysis with questions of materiality and book history. I am interested in the production and reception of epic poems between manuscript and print culture, the transformation processes throughout the textual history of these poems, and the ways in which manual labor, material, and text intersected in making books of heroes. Scholarships and Awards Connaught International Scholarship, University of Toronto, 2019–2024 Conference Papers “Closed Doors and Dwarven Secrets: Laurin’s Mountain Kingdom,” Medieval Undergrounds: The 16th Annual Toronto German Studies Symposium, May 2024. “Epic Poetry Between Manuscript and Print: The Making of the Heldenbuch,” International Graduate Colloquium for Medieval and Early Modern German Studies at Princeton University, Nov. 2-4, 2023. “Old Tales in a New Medium: On the Prefaces of Printed Books of Heroes (1479–1590 CE),” Cologne-Toronto Graduate Student Colloquium 2019.   Read More »

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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 »

Ph.D Student Contact virginia.shewfelt@mail.utoronto.ca Office Hours Wed 10-12, Room 307 Courses 2018-2019 GER100Y L0301 FALL Introduction to German Monday - 11-1 Background I hold a Bachelor of Arts in German and Anthropology (2016) from Memorial University of Newfoundland as well as a Master of Arts in Germanic Languages and Literatures (2018) from University of Toronto. My research focuses on collective memory of the Holocaust in Germany. Read More »