We are thrilled to announce that Tim Ellison has won the German Quarterly Graduate Student Paper Award for his WPR, “Historical Rhapsody: Citation and Pseudo‐Citation in Herder’s Auch eine Philosophie der Geschichte zur Bildung der Menschheit.” His WPR will be … Read more
Drawn to Life: Master Drawings from the Age of Rembrandt in the Peck Collection at the Ackland Art Museum features over 70 exceptional Dutch drawings from the 17th century, many previously unpublished and rarely exhibited. A number of drawings by … Read more
We are thrilled to report that Tako won an honorable mention in the GSA Prize Competition for the Best Essay in German Studies by a Graduate Student. His honored essay was “Answering Egoism: Tieck’s Alternative Theory of Romantic Irony” and … Read more
UNC-Chapel Hill is deepening inroads with its longtime strategic partner Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen in Germany as the two universities jointly pursue how to best use academic partnerships to address global challenges. Prior to the start of the fall semester, … Read more
Prof. Lapushin published Rosa na trave: Slovo u Chekhova [Dew on the Grass: The Word in Chekhov] in the series Contemporary Western Rusistika (Boston/Saint-Petersburg: Academic Study Press, 2021). The book is a revised and extended version of his monograph “Dew … Read more
Matt Hambro, Ph.D. (2019) is a software engineer with Hulu in Santa Monica, California. During an online event entitled “Life After Grad School,” Matt spoke to current CDG graduate students about his experiences adapting to the world of software engineering … Read more
Carolina-Duke graduate student Tim Ellison is the winner of the 2022 Ria Stambaugh-Frank Borchardt Prize for best Writing Proficiency Review essay, “Historical Rhapsody: Citation and Historiography in Herder’s Auch eine Philosophie der Geschichte zur Bildung der Menschheit.
The Department of German Studies at Duke University announced that Shiqi Xu has been awarded the Bessent Teaching Award in recognition of her first year as an outstanding German language instructor. Tatjana Zimbelius-Klem has received the Borchardt Teaching Award based … Read more
The College of Arts & Sciences awarded 13 academic departments and programs a total of $36,000 in grants to enhance diversity, equity and inclusion as part of its inaugural DEI Grants for Unit-Level Support program. GSLL is among the awardees … Read more
Amy Jones, Ph.D. (spring, 2022) has been appointed instructor of German at Duke University. Ian McClean, Ph.D. (spring, 2022) has been appointed instructor of German and classics at the University of Memphis. Martin Dawson, Ph.D. (2021) has accepted a position … Read more
