Sara Hall, Associate Professor of Germanic Studies and Director of the Moving Image Arts program, has won the annual Society for Cinema Studies Central/East/South European Cinemas Outstanding Essay Award competition for her essay…
Sara Hall, Associate Professor of Germanic Studies and Director of the Moving Image Arts Program, has been selected to receive funding through the UIC Awards for Creative Activity Program for her project “Police Projections:…
A book by Dagmar Lorenz, professor emerita of Germanic Studies, has been featured on Choice magazine’s 2019 list of Outstanding Academic Titles. Her book, Nazi Characters in German Propaganda and Literature (2018, Brill), argues that…
Zuka’a Joudeh, who double majored in Germanic Studies and Political Science (Class of 2019), reached the finalist stage in the incredibly competitive competition for a Rhodes Scholarship, one of the most prestigious post-graduate…
Erin Gizewski, Ph.D. student in Germanic Studies, published the essay “Breaking the Cycle: Establishing a New Feminist Phenomenology within Movement-Image in Maren Ade’s The Forest for the Trees” in Focus on German Studies…
Heidi Schlipphacke, Associate Professor of Germanic Studies, has won the Goethe Society of North America prize “for the best essay published in 2018 on Goethe, his times, and/ or contemporary figures.” The essay,…
Maryann Piel, Ph.D. student in Germanic Studies, will take part in a workshop on Thomas Mann (“The Mann Family – Lives and Fictions”) at Dartmouth University at which Thomas Mann’s grandson, Frido Mann,…
Germanic Studies Ph.D. alumna Christina Mekonen (2018) has accepted a permanent position as Doctoral Lecturer at Hunter College (City University of New York) in German beginning Fall 2019. She has held the position…
The Daily Southtown newspaper features a profile of 2019 UIC grad and Fulbright finalist Zuka’a Joudeh, who earned bachelor’s degrees in political science and Germanic studies, for her work to support refugees in…
While witnessing and reading media reports about the influx of Syrian refugees to Germany and prepared with years of German language studies dating back to high school, UIC student Zuka’a Joudeh was inspired…
