Department of German Studies

Events

Congratulations to Jessie Zhao, a German Studies major, for publishing, along with Prof. Höyng, her first book review of Howard Caygill's Kafka: In Light of the Accident.
Congratulations to Prof. Caroline Schaumann on recieving the 2018 Robert S. Hascall Faculty Sustainability Innovator Award from the office of Sustainability Initiatives.
Congratulations to senior German Studies major Paul Greenstein on being inducted into Phi Beta Kappa
Three recently graduated German Studies majors will be teaching English this coming year in the German-speaking world. Lydia Rautman and Chebon Ryan will be Fulbright English Teaching Assistants in Germany, and Jacqueline Teed will be a US Teaching Assistant in Linz, Austria
The book Robert Walser: A Companion, featuring Prof. Paul Buchholz' contribution "Out of a Job: Giving Notice in The Tanners and The Assistant" was published by Northwestern University Press in June 2018.
Prof. Miriam Udel’s chapter “The Sabbath Tale and Jewish Cultural Renewal” appeared in the volume “Children and Yiddish Literature: From Early Modernity to Post-Modernity”