“Russian Language Flagship Program prepares students to become global professionals,” by Korie Dean, University Communications, September 18, 2020: “Carolina’s new Russian Language Flagship Program allows students in any academic background to intensively study Russian and participate in professional development programming … Read more
On October 19, 2020, during University Research Week, there was a roundtable featuring students writing Honors theses supervised by GSLL faculty. Students discussed their experiences performing academic research for their undergraduate Honors theses: their topic, their investments, the process, what … Read more
In the fall 2020 the Department welcomed Dr. Adi Nester to its faculty, as teaching assistant professor of German and Jewish Studies Education. As opportunities for casual and academic interaction have been dramatically reduced during the coronavirus pandemic, Professor Gabriel … Read more
Professor Gabriel Trop (UNC-Chapel Hill) and Professor Chunjie Zhang (UC-Davis) have edited a volume of Germanic Review entitled: “Aesthetics and Politics in the Wake of Enlightenment: Jonathan Hess in Memoriam,” which was published online on October 28, 2020. Most of … Read more
This virtual symposium featured papers by Professor Gabriel Trop (“Giordano Bruno Latour: Bonding as Paradigm of Power”), Teaching Professor Christina Weiler (“Uncanny Women, Exploitation, and Animal Ethics in Ludwig Tieck’s Fairy Tale ‘Fairhaired Eckbert’”), Professor Eliza Rose, (“Ultrasounds of Nothing: … Read more
Professor Langston’s book on Alexander Kluge and Oskar Negt — entitled Dark Matter: A Guide to Alexander Kluge and Oskar Negt — was published by Verso Books in August 2020. In order to celebrate the occasion and congratulate our colleague … Read more
On December 1 and 8 2020, Professor Paul Roberge will host a sold-out class on Njal’s Saga, the greatest of the Icelandic sagas and masterpiece of medieval literature. On October 7, 2020 Professor Eliza Rose led the group in a … Read more
GSLL faculty members Professor Ruth von Bernuth and Professor Eric Downing have co-edited a special volume for the series Nexus: Essays in German Jewish Studies, due to appear in February 2021. The essays included are drawn from talks originally presented … Read more
Choice, a publishing unit of the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL), the largest division of the American Library Association, has selected the Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception Online as one of its very few Outstanding Electronic Academic Titles for 2020. In … Read more
“Russian Language Flagship Program Prepares Students to Become Global Professionals“: Meredith Doubleday and Stanislav Shvabrin discuss the newly-established UNC Russian Flagship Program (UNCRFP) with Korie Dean (University Communications) for a feature on Carolina’s homepage, with a contribution from UNCRFP participant … Read more
