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…
Imke Meyer, Professor of Germanic Studies, was awarded the HOPE (Honoring Our Professors’ Excellence) Award. Started in 2015, the HOPE awards are presented by Campus Housing to recognize faculty who have made a…
Zachary Fitzpatrick, Ph.D. student in Germanic Studies, received a Mellon-CES Dissertation Completion Fellowship for the 2021-22 academic year to complete his dissertation entitled Reeling in Asian German Representation: 110 Years of Asian German…
Maryann Piel, Ph.D. student in Germanic Studies, has garnered a prestigious DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) research fellowship for the 2021-22 academic year. Maryann will spend the coming academic year conducting research in…
Zach Fitzpatrick, a Ph.D. candidate in Germanic Studies, recently published an article with the Berlin-based Asian German organization Korientation. It highlights 10 underrated German films of the last 10 years centered on a…
