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  • Four German Studies Students and Alumni Receive Fulbright Scholarships

    June 13, 2025
    Dept of German Studies

    The German Studies Department has a long track record of nurturing Fulbright scholars and English Teaching Assistants (ETAs), and this year's cohort is especially numerous and impressive. Two German majors, John Moreland'22 and Sasha Usher'25 have received scholarships to teach English in Germany. German minor Gavin Walsh'24 will be an ETA in Austria (having also received but declined a scholarship from Fulbright Germany), as will Gary Jiang'25.

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  • New volume on Black German literature, edited by Jeannette Oholi

    June 5, 2025
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    During my postdoctoral fellowship at Dartmouth, one of the projects I worked on was an edited volume on Black German literature. The volume "Schwarze deutsche Literatur: Ästhetische und aktivistische Interventionen von den 1980er Jahren bis heute" (Black German Literature: Aesthetic and Activist Interventions from the 1980s to the Present) has now been published by transcript Verlag.

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

    May 5, 2025
    poster

    In the Winter course German 44.08: Sustainability and German Environmental Imagination, students presented their "show-and-tell" posters on various concepts fundamental to understanding environmental issues. These compelling concepts included Animal Perceptions, Immersion and Interconnectivity, The Economy of Nature, Extrinsic and Intrinsic Value of Nature, Anthropomorphism and Sustainability, and Soundscapes. For their informative, creative, and fun posters, students collaborated in small groups on various texts and media.

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