Former UNC-CH senior lecturer in German, Dr. Tin Wegel, is serving as the resident director for Duke in Berlin for 2021–22.

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

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).

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

The virtual Delta Phi Alpha induction ceremony and end-of-semester celebration took place on April 21, 2021. This annual event, which honors undergraduate German majors, featured two speakers, Dr. Christoph Rückel from the internship program German American Exchange and Prof. Henrike … Read more

The Arion Press (San Francisco), has published Nikolai Gogol’s Petersburg tale “The Nose” (1836), prefaced, annotated, and translated by Stanislav Shvabrin. The Arion Press relies on Johannes Gutenberg’s methods to produce handmade books that reinvent the content-form ratio in unexpected … Read more

Each year the University recognizes people and groups that have given their time and effort to advance diversity, equity and inclusion at Carolina and in our surrounding community. As has always been the case, this work is vital as we … Read more

Edited by Rob McFarland, Georg Spitaler, and Ingo Zechner (link). Immediately after World War I, in 1919, the Austrian capital Vienna elected a Social Democratic majority that persisted until 1934. The city’s leaders, together with its intellectuals, boldly imagined a … Read more

James William “Bil” Hays, Jr., of Siler City, North Carolina, passed away unexpectedly at home on December 31, 2020, from heart disease. He was 59. Bil earned his baccalaureate degree in comparative literature from William and Mary College. He completed … Read more

Choice, a publishing unit of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), the largest division of the American Library Association, has selected the Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception Online (Dale C. Allison et al. eds., Berlin: De … Read more