One of the GSLL faculty members, Dr. Radislav Lapushin, has received the 2019 Chapman Family Teaching Award. The Chapman Teaching Awards were established in 1993 through a generous gift by Max Carrol Chapman, Jr, to honor UNC faculty members with … Read more
Phi Beta Kappa recently inducted 205 new students in Spring 2019, 6 of whom are students from GSLL. Ansley Adelaide Ussery, a junior with computer science and German majors and a Spanish minor, daughter of Kirsten McDonald and Mick Ussery … Read more
Isabel Elssner is a current sophomore at UNC-Chapel HIll from Asheville, NC. She is on the pre-med track and is double majoring in Biology and German with a minor in Chemistry. This summer she will be interning in Winnenden near Stuttgart … Read more
JJ Schacht, a student majoring in GSLL with a concentration in German, will be interning for Pia-Pontis Institutional Advisors in Munich, Germany this upcoming summer. He received this position through the German-American Exchange, a competitively exclusive program that matches American young professionals … Read more
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
