Pictured: Students of GERM 307 – known as UNC SPARKlers Did you know there is a class for credit in GSLL that can give you real world teaching experience while also helping to provide needed language education to local K-12 … Read more
The online application deadline for CDG is December 10th 2024 – Join us to learn essential details about the program before the application deadline. CDG students receive 6 years of generous funding, plus summer, travel, and research support. CDG is … Read more
With the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict maintaining global attention, the significance of Russian language classes as a tool for gaining insight into Russian culture and its geopolitical implications has become increasingly clear. General Christopher G. Cavoli – Supreme Allied Commander Europe … Read more
GSLL German majors and minors who were enrolled in GERM 305 – Business German II this spring semester with Dr. Sophia Strietholt have officially been certified as highly proficient in Business German. The students took the prestigious WiDaF test (Deutsch … Read more
For the first time in many years, GSLL hosted German Day, North Carolina’s annual contest for middle school and high school learners of German. Over 400 students from K-12 schools from throughout North Carolina traveled to Chapel Hill to compete … Read more
Professor Langston will hold the 2023 Zurich Distinguished Lecture on the Art of Interpretation. Entitled “Sex and Sociability: Queer Poetics in the Crisis Years of the 80s,” Dr. Langston’s lecture explores the effects HIV/AIDS had on queer writing and how … Read more
Prof. Priscillia Layne has been longlisted for this year’s National Translation Award (NTA) for her translation of Olivia Wenzel’s 1000 Coils of Fear, a novel that explores the experience of being a Black German woman living in New York and … Read more
Rising junior Luke Elliot speaks eight languages to connect with people from all cultures, and he’s started to learn two more. “When you start to speak to someone in their native language, a lot of times their face will just … Read more
Bradley Sadowsky has won the Johnathan Hess Diversity Prize for his paper “Ihr ewiges Klagelied, der Fackelbrand der wilden Lüste: The Creation of a Novel Queer Poetics in Marie-Madeleine’s Auf Kupros.”
Congratulations to Tatjana Zimbelius-Klem for receiving the 2022/23 Siegfried Mews Award for Excellence in Teaching German! Tatjana taught German 101: Elementary I and served as Course Coordinator for this level last semester, and she is currently teaching German 301: Advanced … Read more
