Heidi Schlipphacke, Associate Professor of Germanic Studies, has won the Goethe Society of North America prize “for the best essay published in 2018 on Goethe, his times, and/ or contemporary figures.” The essay,…
Maryann Piel, Ph.D. student in Germanic Studies, will take part in a workshop on Thomas Mann (“The Mann Family – Lives and Fictions”) at Dartmouth University at which Thomas Mann’s grandson, Frido Mann,…
Germanic Studies Ph.D. alumna Christina Mekonen (2018) has accepted a permanent position as Doctoral Lecturer at Hunter College (City University of New York) in German beginning Fall 2019. She has held the position…
The Daily Southtown newspaper features a profile of 2019 UIC grad and Fulbright finalist Zuka’a Joudeh, who earned bachelor’s degrees in political science and Germanic studies, for her work to support refugees in…
While witnessing and reading media reports about the influx of Syrian refugees to Germany and prepared with years of German language studies dating back to high school, UIC student Zuka’a Joudeh was inspired…
The Department of Germanic Studies has been awarded a grant from the Provost and the University Library to transform their German curriculum using Open Education Resources. This will help make language study more…
Maryann Piel, Ph.D. student in Germanic Studies, was accepted into the 2019 Notre Dame Berlin Seminar whose topic this year is “Der Literaturbetrieb: Key Players in Germany’s Literary Institutions.” Seminar members will meet…
The Department of Germanic Studies hosted its annual German High School Day last Friday (February 22) in Student Center East. 300 students from 12 high schools from the Chicagoland area participated in a…
Zachary Fitzpatrick (Ph.D. student in Germanic Studies) has received the Provost’s Graduate Research Award for his dissertation project, Asia Through the German Lens: Asian German Filmic Encounters. Congratulations to Zach on being one…
