Continue your German language study this spring: Learn about German media culture, the Brothers Grimm, the Legacy of Sigmund Freud, gender and German-Jewish Culture and more. Spring Term Courses are here: https://german.dartmouth.edu/undergraduate/courses/courses-term
The Modern Language Association has announced that the winner of this year's Scaglione Prize is Prof. Petra McGillen for her book The Fontane Workshop: Manufacturing Realism in the Industrial Age of Print.
January 27 marks the 20th anniversary of the deaths of the beloved professors Susanne and Half Zantop.
The Department of German Studies has relocated to its temporary swing space in Bartlett Hall while Dartmouth Hall is undergoing renovation.
Yuliya Komska interviews Jae Nichelle about poetry and the experience of inhabiting a queer Black woman's body.
Sign up for a German Studies course this winter term. We offer classes in German and in English that help fulfill the language requirement, carry credit for the graduation requirement and are applicable to a German major or minor degree.
Interested in learning more about the Berlin off-campus programs offered by the Department of German Studies? Please join department faculty and students for a live information session.
Green City is a joint foreign study program between the Department of German Studies and the Thayer School of Engineering that will be piloted in the spring 2022 (pending final approval). This program invites students to combine engineering coursework that focuses on "green" and sustainable engineering with a fast-track German course (GERM 2–3) that satisfies Dartmouth's foreign language requirement.
Petra McGillen has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure. She additionally received the Karen E. Wetterhahn Memorial Award for Distinguished Creative or Scholarly Achievement, as well as the David Bloom and Leslie Chao Fellowship.
Since 1970, well over a hundred Dartmouth graduates have been awarded Fulbright scholarships or the German equivalent, DAAD fellowships, to spend a year either teaching or pursuing research in the German-speaking countries. In 2020, they are joined by three more Fulbright awardees: Chase Yakaboski, Thayer '23; Mary Tobin '20; and Claire Votava '18.
