Associate Professor Emerita Helga Bister-Broosen passed away on February 10, 2018 in Brugge, Belgium, following a long illness. She is survived by her husband Professor Emeritus Roland Willemyns (University of Brussels), who taught at UNC-Chapel Hill as a visiting professor … Read more
Congratulations to Martin Dawson on having been selected as the recipient of Siegfried Mews Award for Excellence in Teaching German for the 2019–2020 academic year.
The IAH Faculty Fellowship Program provides on-campus, semester-long leaves for faculty members from the College of Arts and Sciences to pursue research and creative work that leads to publication, exhibition, composition, and performance. In the competition for the current academic … Read more
Professor Dan Thornton, GSLL’s Dutch specialist since 2001, taught DTCH 402 and an advanced independent study in the fall 2020 term. The department has received grants from the prestigious Queen Wilhelmina Fund and the Nederlandse Taalunie (the Dutch Language Union) … Read more
“Russian Language Flagship Program prepares students to become global professionals,” by Korie Dean, University Communications, September 18, 2020: “Carolina’s new Russian Language Flagship Program allows students in any academic background to intensively study Russian and participate in professional development programming … Read more
On October 19, 2020, during University Research Week, there was a roundtable featuring students writing Honors theses supervised by GSLL faculty. Students discussed their experiences performing academic research for their undergraduate Honors theses: their topic, their investments, the process, what … Read more
In the fall 2020 the Department welcomed Dr. Adi Nester to its faculty, as teaching assistant professor of German and Jewish Studies Education. As opportunities for casual and academic interaction have been dramatically reduced during the coronavirus pandemic, Professor Gabriel … Read more
Professor Gabriel Trop (UNC-Chapel Hill) and Professor Chunjie Zhang (UC-Davis) have edited a volume of Germanic Review entitled: “Aesthetics and Politics in the Wake of Enlightenment: Jonathan Hess in Memoriam,” which was published online on October 28, 2020. Most of … Read more
This virtual symposium featured papers by Professor Gabriel Trop (“Giordano Bruno Latour: Bonding as Paradigm of Power”), Teaching Professor Christina Weiler (“Uncanny Women, Exploitation, and Animal Ethics in Ludwig Tieck’s Fairy Tale ‘Fairhaired Eckbert’”), Professor Eliza Rose, (“Ultrasounds of Nothing: … Read more
Professor Langston’s book on Alexander Kluge and Oskar Negt — entitled Dark Matter: A Guide to Alexander Kluge and Oskar Negt — was published by Verso Books in August 2020. In order to celebrate the occasion and congratulate our colleague … Read more
