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…
This year marks the 25th anniversary of Germany’s reunification. On October 3, 1990, East Germany and West Germany reunited-after four decades of division-to form a single nation. The UIC Department of Germanic Studies…
On the 25th anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall last year, Mr. Gorbachev made the following statement: “The world is on the brink of a new Cold War. Some are even…
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.”