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…
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…
Two LCSL faculty members have been recognized for their outstanding teaching! Kara Morgan-Short (Associate Professor of Hispanic Linguistics and Psychology) and Sara Hall (Associate Professor of Germanic Studies and Director of the Moving…
