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Works in Progress events, fall 2021

January 19, 2022

Wednesday, September 22, 2021, 7:30 pm (Duke campus): Dr. Sarah Pourciau (Duke University), “The empty canvas: Daniel Kehlmann on the origins of modernity (part 2).”  Wednesday, October 27, 2021, 1.00pm (on Zoom): Joshua Shelley (Carolina-Duke Graduate Program in German Studies), … Read more

GSLL welcomes new Slavic faculty in the 2021–22 academic year

January 19, 2022

Dr. Agnieszka Majewska has joined the GSLL faculty as lecturer in Polish.  She received her Ph.D. in linguistics from University of Wrocław and brings much expertise in language pedagogy.  Matt McGarry and Meredith Doubleday have joined the Department as teaching … Read more

Recent academic appointments of graduate alumni

January 19, 2022

Margaret Reif, Ph.D. (May, 2020) is visiting assistant professor of German at Haverford College.  Jeffrey Hertel, Ph.D. (May, 2020) is assistant professor of German at Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, Michigan.  April Henry, Ph.D. (UNC-CH, 2008), lecturer in German at Duke University, … Read more

Teaching awards to Carolina-Duke graduate student instructors

January 19, 2022

The Department of German Studies at Duke announced that Stephen Zaksewicz has won the 2021 Bessent Teaching Award and Amy Jones has won the 2021 Borchardt Teaching Award. Both awards recognize demonstrated excellence in teaching.  In 2020, because of circumstances … Read more

Congratulations to Natasza Gawlick

January 19, 2022

Carolina-Duke graduate student Natasza Gawlik is the winner of the 2021 Stambaugh-Borchardt Prize for best Writing Proficiency Review essay, “Mariella Mehr’s steinzeit: Unturning the stone on Swiss and Yenish history” (read more).

Congratulations to Prof. Priscilla Layne

January 19, 2022

In May 2021 the Diversity Awards Committee and the University Office for Diversity and Inclusion announced the year’s Diversity Award winners.  Among the recipients is Prof. Priscilla Layne (read more and view her acceptance speech here). Prof. Layne is also … Read more