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
The next FLPA Exam in German will take place on April 13, 2023 from 3:00-6:00 p.m. Please note: Students will still need to register and pay the $35 fee by the posted deadline by credit card only. You must register … Read more
Congratulations to Nick Jones who has received the Richard Brooke Scholarship. Awarded to Carolina students who have completed either secondary or university education in the United Kingdom, the Richard Brooke Scholarship recognizes Nick’s bachelors degree completed at Durham University, where … Read more
GSLL congratulates CDG alum Claire Scott (’17) on the publication of their throughly revised dissertation. Murderous Mothers: Late Twentieth-Century Medea Figures and Feminism has been published by P. Lang in 2022. Dr. Scott’s monograph explores German-language Medea adaptations from the … Read more
Over the course of four weeks in October and November, Dr. Gabriel Trop led a discussion group for the Carolina Public Humanities on Nietzsche’s dense and enigmatic philosophical work, Thus Spoke Zarathustra. The group met for two hours on Wednesdays … Read more
