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Shelfie: What the faculty is currently reading

German Studies Professor Gerd Gemunden recommends a title from his bookshelf: Abdulrazak Gurnah's Afterlives, 2020, a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel that makes African voices heard.
Interview: What is literature? Author Ulrike Draesner on Literature and Writing

German Studies department chair, Klaus Mladek, interviews Max Kade Distinguished Visiting Professor Ulrike Draesner. The conversation offers a glimpse into the author's thoughts on the world of writing.
The German/Engineering FSP was successfully piloted in Berlin in Spring 2022

Green City is a joint foreign study program between the Department of German Studies and the Thayer School of Engineering.
Jonah Hirsch '22 receives a DAAD Fellowship for study in Germany

Jonah Hirsch '22 will pursue graduate study in Germany with a fellowship from the German Academic Exchange Service.
Democracy Will Win

At noon on June 2, in the foyer of Baker-Berry Library, Profs. Irmela von der Lühe and Veronika Fuechtner introduced the current exhibit of Thomas Mann's antifascist activities. A reception followed.
German Studies End-of-Year Party Celebrated 2021-2

The department's annual End-of-Year party celebrated the accomplishments of its graduating class, all enrolled students, and student TAs.
Shelfie: What the Faculty is Currently Reading

Our Distinguished Max Kade Professor Ulrike Draesner recommends a current title from her bookshelf: Die Bergfahrt (Ascent) by Ludwig Hohl.
Faculty retreat with Ulrike Draesner

Scholars on contemporary literature from New England, the director of the Goethe-Institute in Boston and faculty from the German department discussed her latest novel.
Professor Kacandes in Wrocław, Poland

Kacandes gave the opening keynote address at a conference at the University of Wrocław, Poland.
'22 Spring Term Visiting Professor Ulrike Draesner

The Spring '22 Max Kade Distinguished Visiting Professor was the German novelist, poet, essayist, and translator, Ulrike Draesner.

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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