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…
UIC Germanic Studies graduate student Lucas Riddle has been accepted into “The Notre Dame Berlin Seminar – German Literary Institutions, An Introduction to Key Players” for the summer of 2018. The Notre Dame…
German PhD students Christina Mekonen, Julia Koxholt, and Zachary Fitzpatrick were recently featured on the Language and Culture Learning Center’s website with their Tech Success Story. They talk about their project doing Video Essays in…