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Rethinking Thomas Mann: A Global Lens on a German Icon

As scholars around the world mark the 150th anniversary of Mann's birth, professor Veronika Fuechtner has emerged as a leading voice in reinterpreting the literary icon's legacy.
AI Assisted Learning Bridges French and German Culture in the Language Classroom

In German 1, students used pen and paper as well as AI translation tools to conduct a live intercultural conversation with a French guest, practicing both German and French while exploring drink culture.
The German Studies Department Presents Oktoberfest 2025!

Please join the Department of German Studies and the German Club as they celebrate Oktoberfest 2025 - Thursday, October 9, 4:30-7 p.m. at Collis Common Ground. Food, cider, music, food, games and fun will be had by all. See you there!
Donbas-Berlin: Migration and Memory on October 7th, 2025

In Salzmann's new novel, Glorious People, two generations of women speak, scream, & stay silent about the wild post-Soviet years, the
Meet our new Austrian Fulbright TA Chlodwig Petzl

Listen as Chlodwig Petzl from Vienna sends a greeting and introduces himself to our campus community for AY 25-6.
Four German Studies Students and Alumni Receive Fulbright Scholarships

The German Studies Department has a long track record of nurturing Fulbright scholars and English Teaching Assistants (ETAs), and this year's cohor
New volume on Black German literature, edited by Jeannette Oholi

During my postdoctoral fellowship at Dartmouth, one of the projects I worked on was an edited volume on Black German literature.
"Show-and-tell" Poster Presentations in the German Course: Sustainability and German Environmental Imagination

In the Winter course German 44.08: Sustainability and German Environmental Imagination, students presented thei
Filmmaker and Kade Professor Ines Johnson-Spain's Film at the HOP on April 9

Discussion follows with director Ines Johnson-Spain and Leslie Center postdoctoral fellow Jeannette Oholi, moderated by Yuliya Komska. Free and unticketed, co-sponsored by the Department of German Studies, the Office of the Dean for International and Interdisciplinary Studies, and the Kade Foundation.
The International Comparative Literature Association Recognizes Jeannette Oholi's Book with an Award

Jeannette Oholi receives the International Comparative Literature Association's ECARE First Book Subvention Prize for her pathbreaking first book.

Recent Publications

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The Fontane Workshop: Manufacturing Realism in the Industrial Age of Print.

Petra S. McGillen

New Directions in German Studies; 26. New York; London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019
On Being Adjacent to Historical Violence

Irene Kacandes

De Gruyter Verlag, 2022
Sovereignty in Ruins: A Politics of Crisis

Klaus Mladek, George Edmondson (eds.)

Duke University Press, 2017.
Toni Erdmann

Gerd Gemünden

Camden House, 2021

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Top Stories

Rethinking Thomas Mann: A Global Lens on a German Icon

AI Assisted Learning Bridges French and German Culture in the Language Classroom

The German Studies Department Presents Oktoberfest 2025!

Donbas-Berlin: Migration and Memory on October 7th, 2025

Meet our new Austrian Fulbright TA Chlodwig Petzl

Four German Studies Students and Alumni Receive Fulbright Scholarships

New volume on Black German literature, edited by Jeannette Oholi

"Show-and-tell" Poster Presentations in the German Course: Sustainability and German Environmental Imagination

Filmmaker and Kade Professor Ines Johnson-Spain's Film at the HOP on April 9

The International Comparative Literature Association Recognizes Jeannette Oholi's Book with an Award

Recent Publications

The Fontane Workshop: Manufacturing Realism in the Industrial Age of Print.

On Being Adjacent to Historical Violence

Sovereignty in Ruins: A Politics of Crisis

Toni Erdmann

Study Abroad

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