Gabriel Trop, associate professor of German, has been awarded the 2018 Hettleman Prize for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement by Young Faculty. The awards, made possible by the generosity of Phillip (UNC Class of 1921) and Ruth Hettleman, recognize scholarly and artistic achievement by … Read more

Phi Beta Kappa recently inducted 190 new students, 7 of whom are students from GSLL. Meg Keeter Fletcher, a senior with linguistics and Hispanic linguistics majors and a Russian language and culture minor, daughter of Lyn Fletcher and Jimmy Fletcher … Read more

By Priscilla Layne, assistant professor of German in the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages in the UNC College of Arts and Sciences When people hear I’m a German professor, they ask me two questions: Do I have German relatives? … Read more

On two nights in November, renowned artist Toshi Reagon debuted her new opera, an adaptation of Octavia Butler’s “Parable of the Sower,” at the Carolina Performing Arts. On Friday November 17th, Dr. Priscilla Layne gave a brief lecture, offering contextualization … Read more

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has provided $648,234 in scholarships, fellowships and program support to 182 undergraduate students pursuing study abroad programs in Spring, Summer and Fall 2017, and yearlong programs during the 2017-18 academic year. A … Read more

Phi Betta Kappa has recently inducted 165 new students, 3 of whom are students from GSLL. Faith Caroline Goldsmith, a senior with peace, war, and defense and Germanic and Slavic languages and literatures majors, daughter of Col. (R) Stu Goldsmith … Read more

Professor Priscilla Layne was interviewed about her upcoming talk as a part of the Triangle Film Salon lecture series. Read the interview here.

The Russian Club mascot visited a Russian class, and helped to encourage many students to come to Russian Club.

The recipient of the 2016/17 Siegfried Mews Award for Excellence in Teaching German is Richard M. Lambert III – better known as Tres to the vast scores of undergraduate students who he taught over the years at Carolina. Tres joined … Read more

The Spring semester 2017 was brought to a dramatic end with two performances of Frank Wedekind’s thought-provoking 1891 play Frühlings Erwachen, as part of a senior seminar taught by Dr. Tin Wegel. Seventeen undergraduate students rehearsed this controversial play of … Read more