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…
Congratulations to Adrian Chubb, who was accepted to present at and participate in the International Workshop for Graduate Students within the Exzellenzeninitiative of the Graduate Academy, University of Tübingen on the topic of “Unsettled 1968: Origins–Myth–Impact,” which…
Congratulations to Derek Schaefer, PhD from our program, on the publication of his article “The Past does not end here: Memory and “Collective Enunciation” in Antje Rávic Strubel’s Sturz der Tage in die Nacht…
