September 11, 2024
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 … Read more
May 14, 2024
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 … Read more
February 28, 2024
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 … Read more
October 26, 2023
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 … Read more
September 11, 2023
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 … Read more
August 7, 2023
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 … Read more
May 11, 2023
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 … Read more
April 19, 2023
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
