Please join the Department of German Studies and the German Club as they celebrate Oktoberfest 2025 - Thursday, October 9, 4:30-7 p.m. at Collis Common Ground. Food, cider, music, food, games and fun will be had by all. See you there!
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In Salzmann's new novel, Glorious People, two generations of women speak, scream, & stay silent about the wild post-Soviet years, the (Jewish) migration to Germany, & the ongoing war in Ukraine. Filene Auditorium (Moore). 4:30-6:30, October 7th Sponsored by Jewish Studies and German Studies.
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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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