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.”
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. In the interview, she discusses her experiences as a German teacher.