On January 21, 2022, Dr. Aleksandra Prica sat down for an interview with Dr. Lea Greenberg on the New Books in German Studies segment of the New Books Network. Dr. Aleksandra Prica discusses her new book coming out next month … Read more
Friday, January 28, 2022, 1:00pm (on Zoom): John Jolly (Carolina-Duke Graduate Program in German Studies): “‘A Holy Open Mystery’: Modern poetry and the metaphysics of analogia.” Wednesday, March 2, 2022: Nick Jones (Carolina-Duke Graduate Program in German Studies): TBD. Wednesday, … Read more
Congratulations to Prof. Aleksandra Prica, whose promotion to the rank of associate professor with tenure took effect on January 1, 2022, and to Dr. Clayton Koelb, Guy B. Johnson Distinguished Professor of German, English, and Comparative Literature, whose retirement from … Read more
Screening of Never Gonna Snow Again, directed by Małgorzata Szumowska and Michal Englert (2020, in Polish with English subtitles) at the Varsity Theatre, November 16, 2021). The film deals with immigration and class dynamics in contemporary Poland. Discussion following the … Read more
Tine Rassalle, graduate teaching fellow who covered Dutch in the fall 2021 term, successfully defended her doctoral dissertation on “Coin deposits in ancient synagogues in Late Antique Palestine” in the Department of Religious Studies here at UNC-CH. On November 15, … Read more
The GSLL undergraduate and faculty research event took place on November 12, 2021, during Undergraduate Research Week. The event featured both undergraduate students (David Green, Max Hazerjian, Alli McClure) and faculty (Prof. Ruth von Bernuth, Prof. Gabriel Trop), who shared … Read more
November 5, 2021 in Toy Lounge. In Word Play: Experimental Poetry and Soviet Children’s Literature (Northwestern University Press, 2021), Dr. Ainsely Morse (Dartmouth College) traces the relationship between experimental aesthetics and Soviet children’s books throughout the twentieth century. Event cosponsored … Read more
On October 22, 2021 Prof. Cathy Gelbin (University of Manchester) gave a talk via Zoom entitled “New York — Tel Aviv — Berlin: Queer Jewish Lives on Screen” (link). On October 25, 2021 there was a virtual graduate student workshop … Read more
On October 18, 2021 Dr. Lea Greenberg presented a talk (via Zoom) entitled “A Curious Daughter: The excess of reading and desire in Karl Emil Franzos’s ‘The Shylock of Barnow’ (1877).” Dr. Greenberg received her Ph.D. from the Carolina-Duke Graduate … Read more
Prof. Frauke Berndt of the Universität Zürich held an in-person lecture in Toy Lounge on October 7, 2021 entitled: “Castrating Classicism: Karoline von Günderrode’s Ballade ‘Don Juan.’” Following her Thursday evening lecture, Prof. Berndt, together with Prof. Eric Downing, offered … Read more
