Germanic Studies graduate student Julia Koxholt received a DAAD grant to conduct preliminary dissertation research at the Max Kade Center for Contemporary German Literature at Washington University, St. Louis, this summer.
Christina Schultz, Ph.D. student in Germanic Studies, received the 2017 Provost’s Award for Graduate Research to help fund her dissertation research on Turkish-German cinema
Heidi Schlipphacke (Germanic Studies) received a 2017-2018 Institute for the Humanities Fellowship for her project “The Aesthetics of Kinship.” Heidi Schlipphacke is Associate Professor of Germanic Studies and Classics at the University of…
Germanic Studies and Psychology double major Zoie Meyers has been invited to represent UIC at the 2017 University of Illinois Undergraduate Research Day in Springfield, IL on April 25th. Together with 9 other…
Germanic Studies Ph.D. student Christina Mekonen received the Provost-Deiss Award to help support her research for her dissertation, “Poetic Encounters – The Black-Jewish Lyrical Dialogue vis-à-vis the Holocaust.
Quartz (qz.com), an online news publication, quotes Sara Hall, UIC associate professor of Germanic studies, in a story about a German word that could be used to describe the beginning of President Donald…
Dr. Robert Ryder, lecturer in the Department of Germanic Studies, has been accepted as a Spring 2017 Teaching Scholar for the Center for the Advancement of Teaching-Learning Communities.
Heidi Schlipphacke was invited to take part in an international video conference on “Gender Asymmetries in the Global Market.” The video conference was hosted by the Elfriede Jelinek Research Platform at the University…
The School of LCSL is delighted to announce the call for papers for our annual In/Between Conference, which will be held on March 9-10 2017. The keynote speaker is Susan Goldin-Meadow, Professor of…
Zachary Fitzpatrick and Julia Koxholt presented their research on using video essays as an assessment tool at the 2016 Tech Teach conference: “Reaching Beyond Challenges.” During their presentation “Implementing Video Essays in Your…
