January 19, 2022
Screening of Never Gonna Snow Again, directed by Małgorzata Szumowska and Michal Englert (2020, in Polish with English subtitles) at the Varsity Theatre, November 16, 2021). The film deals with … Read more
January 19, 2022
Tine Rassalle, graduate teaching fellow who covered Dutch in the fall 2021 term, successfully defended her doctoral dissertation on “Coin deposits in ancient synagogues in Late Antique Palestine” in the … Read more
January 19, 2022
The GSLL undergraduate and faculty research event took place on November 12, 2021, during Undergraduate Research Week. The event featured both undergraduate students (David Green, Max Hazerjian, Alli McClure) and … Read more
January 19, 2022
November 5, 2021 in Toy Lounge. In Word Play: Experimental Poetry and Soviet Children’s Literature (Northwestern University Press, 2021), Dr. Ainsely Morse (Dartmouth College) traces the relationship between experimental aesthetics … Read more
January 19, 2022
On October 22, 2021 Prof. Cathy Gelbin (University of Manchester) gave a talk via Zoom entitled “New York — Tel Aviv — Berlin: Queer Jewish Lives on Screen” (link). On … Read more
January 19, 2022
On October 18, 2021 Dr. Lea Greenberg presented a talk (via Zoom) entitled “A Curious Daughter: The excess of reading and desire in Karl Emil Franzos’s ‘The Shylock of Barnow’ … Read more
January 19, 2022
Prof. Frauke Berndt of the Universität Zürich held an in-person lecture in Toy Lounge on October 7, 2021 entitled: “Castrating Classicism: Karoline von Günderrode’s Ballade ‘Don Juan.’” Following her Thursday … Read more
January 19, 2022
GSLL has had a wonderful office staff, whose support of departmental operations and assistance in getting us through the administrative morass have been invaluable. Pam Tharp retired from the University … Read more
January 19, 2022
On September 29, 2021 Dr. Eliza Rose led the group in a reading of the novel Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk (link).
January 19, 2022
The first event in the “What is … Dialogue Series” of the Global Jewish Modernism Lab at Duke University took place via Zoom on September 14, 2021: “What is Jewish … Read more
January 19, 2022
The Russian Flagship Program at UNC-Chapel Hill is a joint collaboration between the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures and the Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European … Read more
January 19, 2022
The GSLL Theory Reading Group offers curious thinkers an informal, relaxed setting to read and discuss over the course of a semester theoretical texts of utility for the study of … Read more
January 19, 2022
Wednesday, September 22, 2021, 7:30 pm (Duke campus): Dr. Sarah Pourciau (Duke University), “The empty canvas: Daniel Kehlmann on the origins of modernity (part 2).” Wednesday, October 27, 2021, 1.00pm … Read more
January 19, 2022
The following graduate students have joined the program in fall 2021: Merlin Ganzevoort, Luca Pixner, Wei Quan, Katja Riegler, and Theresa Sambruno Spanhoff.
January 19, 2022
Dr. Agnieszka Majewska has joined the GSLL faculty as lecturer in Polish. She received her Ph.D. in linguistics from University of Wrocław and brings much expertise in language pedagogy. Matt … Read more
January 19, 2022
Ian McLean presented at the Radical and Moderate Sturm und Drang: A Virtual Summer Workshop, August 2–3, 2021, organized by Prof. Martin Wagner (University of Calgary) and Prof. Ellwood Wiggins … Read more
January 19, 2022
Martin Dawson, Ph.D. (August, 2021) is lecturer of German in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Lea Greenberg, Ph.D. (May, 2021) … Read more
January 19, 2022
Margaret Reif, Ph.D. (May, 2020) is visiting assistant professor of German at Haverford College. Jeffrey Hertel, Ph.D. (May, 2020) is assistant professor of German at Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, Michigan. April … Read more
January 19, 2022
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 … Read more
January 19, 2022
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
