April 9, 2021
Talk, “Comics and the Cold War,” presented by Professor Eliot Borenstein, April 26, 2021 (link). Eliot Borenstein is Professor of Russian & Slavic Studies and Senior Academic Convenor for the … Read more
April 9, 2021
The Future of German Jewish Studies: April 11, 2021 book launch for Moments of Enlightenment: In Memory of Jonathan M. Hess (edited by Ruth von Bernuth and Eric Downing, Boydel … Read more
April 9, 2021
Professor Lapushin’s book Dew on the Grass: The Poetics of Inbetweenness in Chekhov (Middlebury Studies in Russian Language and Literature, vol. 32, New York: Peter Lang, 2010) is the first … Read more
April 9, 2021
The Modern Language Association of America announced its awarding of the fourteenth Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Germanic Languages and Literatures. Professor Priscilla Layne received an honorable … Read more
April 9, 2021
The International Vladimir Nabokov Society has awarded Prof. Stanislav Shvabrin’s book Between Rhyme and Reason: Vladimir Nabokov, Translation, and Dialogue (University of Toronto Press, 2019) its 2020 Jane Grayson Prize … Read more
April 9, 2021
In fall 2021 the Department will welcome Matthew McGarry, currently instructor in Russian at the University of Oklahoma (link) who expects to receive his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin … Read more
April 9, 2021
In fall 2021, the Department will welcome a new Polish lecturer. This is possible thanks to the joint support of the Polish National Agency of Academic Exchange (NAWA) and the … Read more
April 9, 2021
Congratulations to Professor Ruth von Bernuth. Prof. Ruth von Bernuth was awarded a Senior Fellowship at the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies, Universität Hamburg, from April to September 2022.
April 9, 2021
Congratulations to Lea Greenberg. Lea Greenberg, doctoral candidate in the Carolina-Duke Program in German Studies, has accepted a visiting faculty appointment in German Jewish studies at Knox College, in Galesburg, … Read more
February 24, 2021
Despite the evident rivalry between UNC and Duke, the Carolina-Duke Graduate Program in German Studies utilizes the strengths of the two universities — one public and one private — to … Read more
February 10, 2021
As an academic institution rooted in the study of transatlantic society, the UNC-CH Center for European Studies recognizes and celebrates the racial and ethnic heterogeneity that is — and has … Read more
January 22, 2021
Associate Professor Emerita Helga Bister-Broosen passed away on February 10, 2018 in Brugge, Belgium, following a long illness. She is survived by her husband Professor Emeritus Roland Willemyns (University of … Read more
January 22, 2021
Congratulations to Martin Dawson on having been selected as the recipient of Siegfried Mews Award for Excellence in Teaching German for the 2019–2020 academic year.
January 22, 2021
The IAH Faculty Fellowship Program provides on-campus, semester-long leaves for faculty members from the College of Arts and Sciences to pursue research and creative work that leads to publication, exhibition, … Read more
January 22, 2021
Professor Dan Thornton, GSLL’s Dutch specialist since 2001, taught DTCH 402 and an advanced independent study in the fall 2020 term. The department has received grants from the prestigious Queen … Read more
January 22, 2021
“Russian Language Flagship Program prepares students to become global professionals,” by Korie Dean, University Communications, September 18, 2020: “Carolina’s new Russian Language Flagship Program allows students in any academic background … Read more
January 22, 2021
On October 19, 2020, during University Research Week, there was a roundtable featuring students writing Honors theses supervised by GSLL faculty. Students discussed their experiences performing academic research for their … Read more
January 22, 2021
In the fall 2020 the Department welcomed Dr. Adi Nester to its faculty, as teaching assistant professor of German and Jewish Studies Education. As opportunities for casual and academic interaction … Read more
January 22, 2021
Professor Gabriel Trop (UNC-Chapel Hill) and Professor Chunjie Zhang (UC-Davis) have edited a volume of Germanic Review entitled: “Aesthetics and Politics in the Wake of Enlightenment: Jonathan Hess in Memoriam,” … Read more
January 22, 2021
This virtual symposium featured papers by Professor Gabriel Trop (“Giordano Bruno Latour: Bonding as Paradigm of Power”), Teaching Professor Christina Weiler (“Uncanny Women, Exploitation, and Animal Ethics in Ludwig Tieck’s … Read more
