Christoph Schmitz, doctoral candidate in the Carolina-Duke Graduate Program in German Studies and teaching fellow at Duke University, participated in the Bass Digital Education Fellowship Showcase on April 14, 2022. On April 22, Dr. April Henry (UNC-CH PhD, 2008) informed … Read more
Phi Beta Kappa held its spring induction ceremony on April 11, 2022. There are several GSLL majors and minors among the inductees: Bill Cozens (German minor), Lilla Gabrielle Duffy (Russian culture minor), Jack Steven Kramer (Germanic & Slavic languages & … Read more
Prof. Priscilla Layne has been elected to the Faculty Grievance Committee. Her term will run through 2025. Prof. Ruth von Bernuth will serve as first alternate on Faculty Council (link to complete election results).
In August 2021, Dr. Agnieszka Majewska with her colleagues in Poland founded the Continents Association, whose goal is to promote Polish in the world and contribute to the methodology and didactics of teaching Polish as a foreign language. The outbreak … Read more
Dr. Eliza Rose presented a chapter from her in-progress book at the AATSEEL 2022 Conference in Philadelphia in February and more recently, as an invited lecturer at the University of Warsaw. The chapter recovers the forgotten history of an art … Read more
While Prof. Priscilla Layne was living in Berlin in fall of 2018 on a fellowship from the American Academy, she made the acquaintance of German graphic novelist Birgit Weyhe. Prof. Layne was working on an essay about the depiction of … Read more
Co-sponsored by the Center for European Studies, the UNC-CH Transatlantic Master’s Program, and the Institute for European Studies at UC Berkeley and held virtually on March 5, 2022, this conference focused on under-considered topics and career paths relevant to contemporary … Read more
This spring, German playwright, translator, and dramaturg Henning Bochert was in Chapel Hill for a few weeks and gave a lecture on contemporary German theater on March 2, 2022, which was entitled “What’s Playing in Germany? — From Postdramatisch to … Read more
Her book Decay and Afterlife: Form, Time, and the Textuality of Ruins, 1100 to 1900 was published by the University of Chicago Press in February–March, 2022 (link).
Tenth anniversary conference of the Black German Heritage and Research Association, hosted by Africana Studies at Rutgers University–Camden (link). Prof. Priscilla Layne was a keynote speaker (“New (Black German) Subjectivity: Intersectionality in Recent Black German Novels”).
