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
The UNC Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures condemns the Russian invasion of the independent, free, and democratic country of Ukraine in the strongest possible terms. Our unconditional support goes to the people of Ukraine and their defenders. … Read more
On January 21, 2022, Dr. Aleksandra Prica sat down for an interview with Dr. Lea Greenberg on the New Books in German Studies segment of the New Books Network. Dr. Aleksandra Prica discusses her new book coming out next month … Read more
Friday, January 28, 2022, 1:00pm (on Zoom): John Jolly (Carolina-Duke Graduate Program in German Studies): “‘A Holy Open Mystery’: Modern poetry and the metaphysics of analogia.” Wednesday, March 2, 2022: Nick Jones (Carolina-Duke Graduate Program in German Studies): TBD. Wednesday, … Read more
Congratulations to Prof. Aleksandra Prica, whose promotion to the rank of associate professor with tenure took effect on January 1, 2022, and to Dr. Clayton Koelb, Guy B. Johnson Distinguished Professor of German, English, and Comparative Literature, whose retirement from … Read more
Screening of Never Gonna Snow Again, directed by Małgorzata Szumowska and Michal Englert (2020, in Polish with English subtitles) at the Varsity Theatre, November 16, 2021). The film deals with immigration and class dynamics in contemporary Poland. Discussion following the … Read more
Tine Rassalle, graduate teaching fellow who covered Dutch in the fall 2021 term, successfully defended her doctoral dissertation on “Coin deposits in ancient synagogues in Late Antique Palestine” in the Department of Religious Studies here at UNC-CH. On November 15, … Read more
