Please join us in congratulating Phill Cabeen (PhD candidate in the Department of Germanic Studies) on being awarded a prestigious one-year research grant from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) in support of…
Please join us in congratulating Germanic Studies Ph.D. student, Zach Ramon Fitzpatrick, for receiving the President’s Research in Diversity Travel Assistance Grant to travel to Lisbon for the Twenty-Eighth International Conference of Europeanists…
Please join us in congratulating Germanic Studies graduate student Andrew Tuider, who just garnered a Fulbright English Teaching Award for the academic year 2022-2023! Andrew is set to graduate from UIC this month…
Please join us in congratulating Erin Gizewski, Ph.D. student in Germanic Studies, has published the essay “Successfully and deliciously fugacious: re-interpreting the ‘failed’ fat relationship in Percy Adlon’s Zuckerbaby (1985)” in Fat Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal…
Zach Ramon Fitzpatrick, Germanic Studies Ph.D. student, has published an essay entitled “The World(s) of Anna Suh: Race, Migration, and Ornamentalism in Bis zum Ende aller Tage (Until the End of Days, 1961).” The essay…
Germanic Studies Ph.D. student Erin Gizewski has been elected to a 3-year term as graduate student representative to the executive board of the Austrian Studies Association.
Patrick Fortmann, Associate Professor of Germanic Studies, has recently published Kristallisationen von Liebe with Wilhelm Fink. Publishers Description: In the German context, the notion of romantic love, characterized by ambiguity, uncertainty, and elusiveness, emerges…
Heidi Schlipphacke, Associate Professor of Germanic Studies, has been elected as Vice President of the Goethe Society of North America. She will serve in this role beginning in November 2021 and will become…
Zuka’a Joudeh (BA, Germanic Studies and Political Science, 2019) will participate in an upcoming panel discussion on the book The Moral Triangle: Germans, Israelis, Palestinians. The panel will explore the relationship among Germans, Israelis,…
Sharon Weiner, a 2017 PhD in Germanic Studies from UIC and current lecturer in German at Baylor University, has won the 2020 Max Kade Prize for Best Article in The Journal of Austrian Studies…
