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).

Congratulations to Dr. Priscilla Layne and Dr. Christina Weiler. After serving as Vice President from 2020-2021, Dr. Priscilla Layne is now President of the American Association of Teachers of German through 2023. https://www.aatg.org/. After serving as Vice President from 2021-2022, Dr. … Read more

Timeline Competitions are held annually, pending the availability of funds. Current competition: FY 2022 Applications available: February 2, 2022 Application deadline: April 6, 2022 Federal Register Notice Notice Inviting Applications for New Awards dated February 2, 2022 | PDF Current Application The … Read more

The application deadline for year three of this project has been extended to March 31, 2022. AICGS is recruiting sixteen participants (eight from Germany, eight from the U.S.) per year who have been active, professionally or on a voluntary basis, … Read more