Listen as Chlodwig Petzl from Vienna sends a greeting and introduces himself to our campus community for AY 25-6.
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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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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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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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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.
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