GSLL has had a wonderful office staff, whose support of departmental operations and assistance in getting us through the administrative morass have been invaluable. Pam Tharp retired from the University on October 1, 2021, after sixteen years of service as … Read more
On September 29, 2021 Dr. Eliza Rose led the group in a reading of the novel Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk (link).
The first event in the “What is … Dialogue Series” of the Global Jewish Modernism Lab at Duke University took place via Zoom on September 14, 2021: “What is Jewish Modernism?,” with Prof. Beth Holmgren (Duke University) Prof. Priscilla Layne … Read more
The Russian Flagship Program at UNC-Chapel Hill is a joint collaboration between the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures and the Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies (CSEEES). It is one of eight Russian Language Flagship … Read more
The GSLL Theory Reading Group offers curious thinkers an informal, relaxed setting to read and discuss over the course of a semester theoretical texts of utility for the study of literature, film and culture. Participation is open to advanced undergraduates, … Read more
Wednesday, September 22, 2021, 7:30 pm (Duke campus): Dr. Sarah Pourciau (Duke University), “The empty canvas: Daniel Kehlmann on the origins of modernity (part 2).” Wednesday, October 27, 2021, 1.00pm (on Zoom): Joshua Shelley (Carolina-Duke Graduate Program in German Studies), … Read more
The following graduate students have joined the program in fall 2021: Merlin Ganzevoort, Luca Pixner, Wei Quan, Katja Riegler, and Theresa Sambruno Spanhoff.
Dr. Agnieszka Majewska has joined the GSLL faculty as lecturer in Polish. She received her Ph.D. in linguistics from University of Wrocław and brings much expertise in language pedagogy. Matt McGarry and Meredith Doubleday have joined the Department as teaching … Read more
Ian McLean presented at the Radical and Moderate Sturm und Drang: A Virtual Summer Workshop, August 2–3, 2021, organized by Prof. Martin Wagner (University of Calgary) and Prof. Ellwood Wiggins (University of Washington). The title of Ian’s paper is “J. … Read more
Martin Dawson, Ph.D. (August, 2021) is lecturer of German in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Lea Greenberg, Ph.D. (May, 2021) is visiting assistant professor of German and European Studies at … Read more
