While Prof. Priscilla Layne was living in Berlin in fall of 2018 on a fellowship from the American Academy, she made the acquaintance of German graphic novelist Birgit Weyhe. Prof. Layne was working on an essay about the depiction of … Read more
Co-sponsored by the Center for European Studies, the UNC-CH Transatlantic Master’s Program, and the Institute for European Studies at UC Berkeley and held virtually on March 5, 2022, this conference focused on under-considered topics and career paths relevant to contemporary … Read more
This spring, German playwright, translator, and dramaturg Henning Bochert was in Chapel Hill for a few weeks and gave a lecture on contemporary German theater on March 2, 2022, which was entitled “What’s Playing in Germany? — From Postdramatisch to … Read more
Her book Decay and Afterlife: Form, Time, and the Textuality of Ruins, 1100 to 1900 was published by the University of Chicago Press in February–March, 2022 (link).
Tenth anniversary conference of the Black German Heritage and Research Association, hosted by Africana Studies at Rutgers University–Camden (link). Prof. Priscilla Layne was a keynote speaker (“New (Black German) Subjectivity: Intersectionality in Recent Black German Novels”).
The International Vladimir Nabokov Society has awarded its 2021 Ellen Pifer Prize for best undergraduate essay to Sophia Hougton ’21. Her study “Fated text, autonomous design: Aubrey Beardsley’s spectral legacy in Lolita” was written under the supervision of Prof. Stanislav … 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
Gigi graduated in December 2021 with a double major in German and public policy. This Campaign for Carolina article is about her experience studying abroad and focuses on a scholarship she received that made it possible for her to study … Read more
In December 2021 The Department of Music welcomed Elliott Chandler as the new department accounting technician (link), who graduated in May 2021 from UNC-CH with a degree in mathematics and Russian language and culture. Elliott and his roommate co-founded the … Read more
Annegret Oehme (PhD, 2016) has received tenure in the Department of German Studies at the University of Washington. Her book, The Knight without Boundaries: Yiddish and German Arthurian Wigalois Adaptations, was recently published by Brill (link).
