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…
The graduate students of the School of Literatures, Cultural Studies and Linguistics University of Illinois at Chicago are pleased to announce their third interdisciplinary graduate student conference “Converging Narratives: Speak OUT! – Shut…
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…
Fruman and Marian Jacobson, who provide support for students in the School of Literatures, Cultural Studies and Linguistics recently received the Distinguished Service Award. The Jacobsons support students in the School in the…
LCSL Graduate Program Administrator Rocío García was honored with a 2018 UIC Award of Merit. The Award of Merit recognizes and honors outstanding Civil Service and Academic Professional employees for exhibiting service, commitment…
Four LCSL faculty members were recognized at the 2018 Faculty Awards Celebration on October 30, 2018. Chiara Fabbian (Italian Studies) was recognized for receiving the Premio Dante from the American Association of Teachers…
The late Bob Williams, Professor Emeritus of Germanic Studies, Philosophy, and Religious Studies, was honored with a special issue of the Owl of Minerva, the journal of the Hegel Society of America. Prof. Williams, who’s…
Congratulations to Susanne Rott (Germanic Studies department head and expert on German applied linguistics) on joining the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Alumni Association Board of Trustees! She is delighted to serve on…
Christina Mekonen, who successfully defended her dissertation on Black and Jewish poetic encounters in June 2018, has accepted a position as Visiting Assistant Professor of German at Davidson College. Congratulations, Christina!
Heidi Schlipphacke has just published a new co-edited volume with Maura Hametz entitled Sissi’s World: The Empress Elisabeth in Memory and Myth (Bloomsbury, 2018). Adopting a transdisciplinary approach, this book interrogates the legends about and continued global…
Professor Emerita Dagmar Lorenz has published her new book Nazi Characters in German Propaganda and Literature. Click here for more about Prof. Lorenz’s book.
Congratulations to Adrian Chubb, who was accepted to present at and participate in the International Workshop for Graduate Students within the Exzellenzeninitiative of the Graduate Academy, University of Tübingen on the topic of “Unsettled 1968: Origins–Myth–Impact,” which…
Congratulations to Derek Schaefer, PhD from our program, on the publication of his article “The Past does not end here: Memory and “Collective Enunciation” in Antje Rávic Strubel’s Sturz der Tage in die Nacht…
Our very own Christina Schultz (PhD, 2017) Marina Brafa, and Lissy Granzow share their passion for film on their new website! Visit their website here: https://femfilmfans.weebly.com/
UIC Germanic Studies graduate student Lucas Riddle has been accepted into “The Notre Dame Berlin Seminar – German Literary Institutions, An Introduction to Key Players” for the summer of 2018. The Notre Dame…
German PhD students Christina Mekonen, Julia Koxholt, and Zachary Fitzpatrick were recently featured on the Language and Culture Learning Center’s website with their Tech Success Story. They talk about their project doing Video Essays in…
Germanic Studies and Moving Image Arts professor Sara Hall receives the Teaching Recognition Program award. The TRP is UIC’s self-nominated, faculty-administered teaching award program who have documented their teaching excellence over the past three…
Susanne Rott, Professor and Head of the Department of Germanic Studies, was interviewed by the Chicago Tribune about the kickstarter language app Fluent Forever. You can read the full story of the Chicago…
Christina Mekonen, PhD student in Germanic Studies, has been awarded a Fall 2017 University of Illinois President’s Research in Diversity Travel Award.
Patrick Fortmann, Professor of Germanic Studies, will moderate a discussion of Jenny Erpenbeck’s “Go, Went, Gone” on Thursday,October 19th at 6 PM. The European Book Club (organized by the Goethe-Institut Chicago and EUNIC Chicago) meets regularly for…
Sara Hall, Associate Professor and Director of UIC’s Moving Image Arts Program, gave the opening lecture at the Milwaukee Art Museum’s blockbuster exhibit of Lotte Eisner’s collection of objects, drawings and scripts related to…
Congratulations to Sara Hall, Associate Professor and Director of UIC’s Moving Image Arts Program, upon her election to the Executive Board of the German Studies Association.
Sara Hall and Elizabeth Loentz have been selected to participate in the Provost’s Mid-Career Faculty Writing Program for the Spring 2017 semester. The program is designed to assist tenured Associate Professors with time and…
Visit the Jewish Museum, Frankfurt this summer for the launch of the Bertha Pappenheim App, which is part of the project “Tracking the Traffic” at the Goethe Universität Frankfurt. The app provides users…
Dr. Elizabeth Loentz, Associate Professor of the Germanic Studies Department, received UIC’s LAS Mid-Career Award. The LAS Mid-Career Award offers support to tenured Associate Professors in their efforts to produce important research that…
Christina Schultz, Ph.D. student in Germanic Studies, received the 2017 Provost’s Award for Graduate Research to help fund her dissertation research on Turkish-German cinema. Christina Schultz, Ph.D. student in Germanic Studies, received the…
Heidi Schlipphacke (Germanic Studies) received a 2017-2018 Institute for the Humanities Fellowship for her project “The Aesthetics of Kinship.” Heidi Schlipphacke is Associate Professor of Germanic Studies and Classics at the University of…
ffffjfeiofffGermanic Studies and Psychology double major Zoie Meyers has been invited to represent UIC at the 2017 University of Illinois Undergraduate Research Day in Springfield IL on April 25th. Together with 9 other undergraduates…
Germanic Studies Ph.D. student Christina Mekonen received the Provost-Deiss Award to help support her research for her dissertation, “Poetic Encounters – The Black-Jewish Lyrical Dialogue vis-à-vis the Holocaust.
Quartz (qz.com), an online news publication, quotes Sara Hall, UIC associate professor of Germanic studies, in a story about a German word that could be used to describe the beginning of President Donald…
Dr. Robert Ryder, lecturer in the Department of Germanic Studies, has been accepted as a Spring 2017 Teaching Scholar for the Center for the Advancement of Teaching-Learning Communities.
Heidi Schlipphacke was invited to take part in an international video conference on “Gender Asymmetries in the Global Market.” The video conference was hosted by the Elfriede Jelinek Research Platform at the University…
The School of LCSL is delighted to announce the call for papers for our annual In/Between Conference, which will be held on March 9-10 2017. The keynote speaker is Susan Goldin-Meadow, Professor of Linguistics…
Zachary Fitzpatrick and Julia Koxholt presented their research on using video essays as an assessment tool at the 2016 Tech Teach conference: “Reaching Beyond Challenges.” During their presentation “Implementing Video Essays in Your…
The Center for the Advancement of Teaching-Learning Communities has posted videos for the workshops they held last year. Highlights from the workshop on “Introversion and Extroversion in the Classroom” features Dr. Robert Ryder,…
Sara Hall, Professor of Germanic Studies and Director of Moving Image Arts, will give a lecture on German Expressionist Cinema at the Milwaukee Art Museum as part of their Preview Celebration for the Haunted Screens:…
Professor Sara Hall and graduate students Christina Schultz and Zachary Fitzpatrick will introduce and lead a discussion of the popular German film “Suck Me Shakespeer/Fack Ju Göhte” (Bora Dagtekin, 2014) at the International Screenings series…
Germanic Studies PhD student Jonathan Tillotson has accepted a one-year lecturer position with the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Tillotson will begin teaching in Fall 16, pending approval of his dissertation. Please…
Zachary Fitzpatrick, Teaching Assistant of Germanic Studies, was selected to represent UIC in the 2016 MAGS Excellence in Teaching Award competition. UIC holds a campus wide competition each year to determine the UIC…
The Department of Germanic Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago is pleased to announce the Fruman and Marian Jacobson “Bridges” Fund competition, made possible by a generous gift from the Jacobson…
We are pleased to announce and congratulate the winners of our Video Essay/Blog contest on the Topic “Cold Wars: Old and New.” The contest was part of a Campus Week commemorating 25 Years…
Silke-Maria Weineck’s The Tragedy of Fatherhood: King Laius and the Politics of Paternity in the West (Bloomsbury 2014) was honored this month with the Modern Language Association’s Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for…
Basic Language Program Director Dr. Rob Ryder and MA student Zachary Fitzpatrick will speak at the 2015 TeachTech: Building Student Success Conference on November 17, 2015. Their session will take place at 1…
Germanic Studies PhD student Julia Koxholt was awarded the Chicago Consular Corps Scholarship for 2015-16. Nine scholarships are awarded annually to foreign students studying at UIC and one scholarship is awarded to a…
Professor Heidi Schlipphacke gave the Presidential address for the 113th Annual Conference of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association in Portland, Oregon. Dr. Schlipphacke spoke on “The Future of Melancholia: Freud, Fassbinder, and Anxiety…
Dr. Rob Ryder, Director of the Basic Language Program in German has been selected to be one of the inaugural group of Master Teaching Scholars in UIC’s new Center for the Advancement of…
Sara Hall, Associate Professor of Germanic Studies and Chair of Moving Image Arts, has recently been appointed Director of the Office of Undergraduate Research (OUR). The Office is an integral part of the…
Jonathan Tillotson, a Ph.D. student in the Germanic Studies department, has just received a prestigious DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) grant to conduct research in Germany for five months beginning October 1. He…
Heidi Schlipphacke has received a research award through the 2015 LAS Faculty Research Awards competition to support her project, “Before the Family: Kinship in the Early Enlightenment German Novel.”
Elizabeth Swanson (major in Germanic Studies) and Sara Hall (faculty mentor) have received the Liberal Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Research Initiative (LASURI) Award for the 2015-16 academic year. The UIC College of Liberal Arts and…
Dr. Sara Hall is quoted on the importance of presenting research in “See the future of knowledge Thursday at Student Research Forum” an article in UIC News.
Interview with Christina Schultz has been published and is featured on the Goethe Institute website. The interview, in which she discusses her experiences as a German teacher, can be found here.
Christina Mekonen, Germanic Studies, receives honorable mention for the 2015 UIC Excellence in Undergraduate Mentoring Award. Now in it’s third year, this award between the Honors College and Graduate College honors the most outstanding, creative,…
February 1 is the deadline for proposals for the Chicago Language Symposium, co-sponsored by the LCLC, DePaul, U of C, and Northwestern. Proposals from all languages and TESOL are welcome. See below for…
Sixth Annual In/Between Conference March 5-6, 2015 The School of Literatures, Cultural Studies and Linguistics invites papers based on all current research by our faculty and graduate students. No matter your topic, we’d…
We are pleased to announce the first ever interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference in Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago hosted by graduate students from different departments in the School of…
Academic Advisor, Kat Aldag, will present on Food and Agriculture Organization: Food Security in the Developing World at the InterGenerational Model United Nations. Kat Aldag is the Academic Advisor for all programs within the School…
UIC’s Germanic Studies Department and the Daley Library hosted “Dictatorship and Democracy in the Age of Extremes: Spotlights on the History of Europe in the Twentieth Century” through October 24, 2014. The exhibit…
This weekend, the LICO Research Group at UIC co-hosted with Urbana-Champaign the 43rd annual meeting of New Ways in Analyzing Variation (http://www.nwav43.illinois.edu/), the largest international conference on sociolinguistics. Many phonemes, morphemes, and processes were analyzed; three Festschrifts…
The National Communication Association (NCA) has selected Dr. Kimberly Singletary, who served as a visiting lecturer in Germanic Studies last year, as one of the 2014 recipients of the NCA Gerald R. Miller Outstanding…
Please join us in congratulating Sara Hall, who has received a 2014-2105 European Union Center of Excellence (EUCE) grant from the EU Center at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for her…
Graduating senior Kerry Gawne was awarded a tuition waiver scholarship to attend the Summer School of Polish and German at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Polish Studies at the Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) from…
Imke Meyer, Director of the School of Literatures, Cultural Studies and Linguistics, was profiled in the Spring issue of AtLAS. The entire article can be found here.
Consul General Brecht attended the UIC Germanic Studies Awards Day held in the UIC Daley Library on Tuesday. The keynote address was given by Brian Sobolak, a Vice President at Northern Trust. …
German major Jeffrey Saba won first place in the category Arts/Design/Humanities at the 2014 UIC Student Research Forum. His research project “When Violence Begets Violence:Examining the Mass Expulsion of the Sudeten Germans…
German major Jeffrey Saba has been awarded a DAAD study scholarship. With the DAAD scholarship, Jeffrey will pursue a two-year masters program in World Heritage Studies at the Brandenburgische Technische Universitaet Cottbus-Senftenberg in Cottbus. The program offers a multi-disciplinary, holistic…
Nathan Tancula, a German major with the Business minor and a minor in Italian, has just received an internship with the U.S. State Department for Summer 2014. Nathan will intern with the…
Please join us in congratulating David Faulk, who has won a Provost’s Award in support of his dissertation research on “Arab-German Writers in the Light of Middle-Eastern and European Discourses.” This award…
Kerry Gawne, German major and member of the Honors College at the University of Illinois at Chicago, is this year’s winner of the Delta Phi Alpha senior scholarship. This scholarship is given to…
The Soundscapes of Culture February 27-28, 2014 The School of Literatures, Cultural Studies and Linguistics invites papers connected to this year’s overarching theme of sound, as well as papers based on all…
The Milwaukee Film Festival, presented by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, is proud to announce the line-up for its third annual Passport program. Passport: Germany will spotlight a selection of films made by eight German…
Sara Hall, Associate Professor of Germanic Studies and Chair of Moving Image Arts, was quoted in the Sun-Times. The Article, Chicago French Film Festival offers a la carte menu of old and new,…
Join us in congratulating Kerry Gawne who just received the nationally competitive Phi Kappa Phi study abroad scholarship for summer study abroad at Humbolt University in Berlin.
Join us in congratulating Mareike Mueller, lecturer in the Germanic Studies Department, on receiving a dissertation award from the Canadian Association of University Teachers of German. Her dissertation, entitled “Learners’ identity Negotiations and…
German High School Day 2013 Winners Each spring the Department of Germanic Studies hosts High School Day at UIC. German teachers and their students from throughout the Chicago area come to UIC to…
Germanic Studies PhD candidate Katarzyna Kowalczyk has been awarded a fellowship to participate in the eighteenth annual Summer Institute on the Holocaust and Jewish Civilization, a joint project of The Holocaust Educational Foundation…
Derek Schaefer was selected and awarded a travel grant to attend the weekend seminar on “New East German Literature” from June 6-8, 2013 in the Deutsche Literaturarchiv (DLA) in Marbach, Germany. The seminar…
Germanic Studies PhD Candidate Michelle Reyes has been awarded a three-month research grant from the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) to conduct research in Germany on her dissertation project, “The Spiritual Self in the Age…
Congratulations to Ph.D. candidate Derek Schaefer, who has been awarded a 12-month scholarship for the Academic Year 2013-14 from the Study Foundation of the Berlin House of Representatives (Studienstiftung des Abgeordneten Hauses von…
MA student Bianca Gavin has been selected as the UIC nominee for the 2013 Midwest Association of the Graduate. As an acknowledgment of her accomplishments and service, Ms. Gavin will also receive a…
Germanic Studies major Jeffrey Saba has been awarded one of two 2012-13 Delta Phi Alpha scholarships. The National German Honor Society Delta Phi Alpha, founded in 1922, has over 250 campus chapters in…
Elizabeth Loentz, Associate Professor and Head of Germanic Studies, was selected for a 2013 Fulbright German Studies Seminar award. The J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board (FSB) is the Presidentially appointed 12-member Board…
Congratulations to the following German majors! James Sit, a double major in German and French, studied in Berlin last summer then enrolled in a program through SAO for Paris this Fall. He decided…
Michelle Reyes and Helga Kauf-Berman were honored at the 17th annual LAS Recognition Dinner. Ms. Reyes, a Ph.D. student in Germanic Studies,received an award for her research scholarship and her benefactor, Helga Kauf-Berman,…
The German Language Society of Chicago’s first dinner program of the season was held under the motto “Never Forget” on November 13, 2012 at the Metropolitan Club in Chicago. Consul General Christian Brecht…
For the second year, Sara Hall is chairing the Chicago Film Seminar, which convenes faculty and graduate students in film, television and media studies from academic institutions in the greater Chicago area throughout…
Sara Hall’s essay “May 1931: With Premiere of M, a Gala Hit Becomes a Cultural Controversy” has just been published in A New History of German Cinema, edited by Jennifer M. Kapczynski and…
Patrick Fortmann, Assistant Professor in the Department of Germanic Studies, edited a collection of essays on Georg Büchner, which came out in August 2012. Further information and a picture of the cover can…
Jeffrey Saba, an undergraduate double-major in German and Anthropology, was awarded a Flaherty Scholarship from the Honors College to support study abroad at the Humboldt University in Berlin for the 2012-2013 academic year.