March 1, 2023
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 … Continued
October 13, 2022
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 … Continued
September 27, 2022
We are thrilled to announce that Tim Ellison has won the German Quarterly Graduate Student Paper Award for his WPR, “Historical Rhapsody: Citation and Pseudo‐Citation in Herder’s Auch eine Philosophie … Continued
September 26, 2022
Drawn to Life: Master Drawings from the Age of Rembrandt in the Peck Collection at the Ackland Art Museum features over 70 exceptional Dutch drawings from the 17th century, many … Continued
September 22, 2022
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 … Continued
September 20, 2022
We are thrilled to report that Tako won an honorable mention in the GSA Prize Competition for the Best Essay in German Studies by a Graduate Student. His honored essay … Continued
September 20, 2022
UNC-Chapel Hill is deepening inroads with its longtime strategic partner Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen in Germany as the two universities jointly pursue how to best use academic partnerships to address … Continued
August 11, 2022
Prof. Lapushin published Rosa na trave: Slovo u Chekhova [Dew on the Grass: The Word in Chekhov] in the series Contemporary Western Rusistika (Boston/Saint-Petersburg: Academic Study Press, 2021). The book … Continued
August 11, 2022
Matt Hambro, Ph.D. (2019) is a software engineer with Hulu in Santa Monica, California. During an online event entitled “Life After Grad School,” Matt spoke to current CDG graduate students … Continued
August 11, 2022
Carolina-Duke graduate student Tim Ellison is the winner of the 2022 Ria Stambaugh-Frank Borchardt Prize for best Writing Proficiency Review essay, “Historical Rhapsody: Citation and Historiography in Herder’s Auch eine … Continued
August 11, 2022
The Department of German Studies at Duke University announced that Shiqi Xu has been awarded the Bessent Teaching Award in recognition of her first year as an outstanding German language … Continued
August 11, 2022
The College of Arts & Sciences awarded 13 academic departments and programs a total of $36,000 in grants to enhance diversity, equity and inclusion as part of its inaugural DEI … Continued
August 11, 2022
Amy Jones, Ph.D. (spring, 2022) has been appointed instructor of German at Duke University. Ian McClean, Ph.D. (spring, 2022) has been appointed instructor of German and classics at the University … Continued
August 11, 2022
John Jolly, Ph.D (spring, 2022) has accepted a teaching position in the humanities at the Chesterton Academy of St. James in San Mateo, California. Christoph Schmitz, Ph.D. (summer, 2022) has … Continued
August 11, 2022
Prof. Richard Langston has agreed to serve as chair of the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures for a four-year term, beginning on July 1, 2022. Members of … Continued
August 11, 2022
The department honors Hana Pichova, professor of Czech language and literature, on the occasion of her retirement from the University this summer. In addition to her teaching and research, Prof. … Continued
August 11, 2022
On August 8, 2022, Jarrett assumed the duties of GSLL’s financial and tech assistant. He succeeds Pam Tharp, who retired from the University on October 1, 2021. Since receiving his … Continued
April 28, 2022
Prof. Ruth von Bernuth has been awarded a Senior Fellowship at the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies, Universität Hamburg, from April to September 2022. Her research project: “The Apocrypha in … Continued
April 28, 2022
Prof. Inga Pollman has received a Senior Fellowship at the Cinepoetics Center for Advanced Film Study, based at the Freie Universität Berlin and in cooperation with the Filmuniversität Babelsberg.
April 28, 2022
Prof. Langston will be teaching a master class at the Universität Zürich in May entitled “Poetics of Association in the Literature of Division,” which is based on his CDG graduate … Continued
