One of our faculty members, Dr. Priscilla Layne, speaks about her founding interest in German and how that turned into an academic career. The podcast is part of UNC’s “Well Said” series which is a weekly podcast on Wednesdays where you … Read more

A German comic was created displaying one of our faculty members, Dr. Priscilla Layne life’s journey. The comic was created by Birgit Weyhe, a comic book artist that Dr. Layne met while staying in Berlin in the previous fall.

Professor Priscilla Layne did a recent interview with Kira Thurman, Assistant Professor of History and Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan about her new book  White Rebels in Black: German Appropriation of Black Popular Culture. The interview was … Read more

Professor Priscilla Layne has been working on her manuscript for her second book “Out of This World: Afro-German Afrofuturism” this Fall 2018 semester in Germany. While doing so, she gave a lecture in American Academy in Berlin, Germany about “Afrofuturist … Read more

Phi Beta Kappa recently inducted 190 new students in Fall 2018, 4 of whom are students from GSLL. Clara Marcelle Shirley Schwamm, a senior with Information Science and Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures majors and a mathematics minor, daughter … Read more

The German Studies Association organized a “Jonathan Hess Memorial Roundtable” at its forty-second annual conference held in Pittsburgh between September 27 and September 30. More than a hundred people, including many of Professor Hess’s former doctoral students as well as … Read more

Gabriel Trop, associate professor of German, has been awarded the 2018 Hettleman Prize for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement by Young Faculty. The awards, made possible by the generosity of Phillip (UNC Class of 1921) and Ruth Hettleman, recognize scholarly and artistic achievement by … Read more

Phi Beta Kappa recently inducted 190 new students, 7 of whom are students from GSLL. Meg Keeter Fletcher, a senior with linguistics and Hispanic linguistics majors and a Russian language and culture minor, daughter of Lyn Fletcher and Jimmy Fletcher … Read more

By Priscilla Layne, assistant professor of German in the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages in the UNC College of Arts and Sciences When people hear I’m a German professor, they ask me two questions: Do I have German relatives? … Read more

Over the course of four weeks in October and November, Dr. Gabriel Trop led a discussion group for the Carolina Public Humanities on Nietzsche’s dense and enigmatic philosophical work, Thus Spoke Zarathustra. The group met for two hours on Wednesdays … Read more