The award honors the best essay on Goethe, his times, and/or contemporary figures, written by a North American scholar or GSNA member. "In...

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.

Professor Komska talks about the long history of the term “iron curtain” and its implications in modern-day Europe.

Professor Komska shares her views on belonging, her joy in teaching, and the difference between her and Judy Jetson.

“I gladly think back to the first time I walked through the Brandenburg Gate, which for so many years had functioned as a focal point for the impassability of the wall.”