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Read Miriam Udel's Opinion Essay in the New York Times, “What I Read to My Son When the World Is on Fire”.

Julia Ruck and Hiram Maxim contributed a Forum article publiched in the new issue of the German Quarterly Volume 96, Issue 3.

Celebrating Janet Swaffar: A Festschrift, co-edited by Hiram Maxim and Katherine Arens, is a collection of twelve essays by Dr. Janet Swaffar’s former PhD advisees that highlight her many contributions as a scholar-teacher of German Studies at the University of Texas-Austin.

A statement composed by Miriam Udel, Judith London Evans Director of the Tam Institute for Jewish Studies on the attacks on Israel.

The Department of German Studies is excited to welcome Julia Ruck as Assistant Teaching Professor of German Studies.  Learn more. 

The Department of German Studies is excited to welcome Richmond Embeywa as Provost Postdoc of German Studies.  Learn more.

Caroline Schaumann is joining the general editors for the series Nature, Culture and Literature at Brill

Associate Professor of German Studies and Judith London Evans Director of the Tam Institute of Jewish Studies at Emory University, Dr. Miriam Udel served as Chaplain of the Day in the Georgia House of Representatives, offering an invocation and benediction at the start of the legislative session on Wednesday, February 1, 2023.

German Studies minors Cosette Drook 23C and Hannah Klein 23C were recognized in the group of students named in the 100 Senior Honorary.

Congratulations to Hannah Kreuziger for receiving the AATG-Georgia Chapter College Student of the Year Award.  

Host of our bi-weekly Kaffeestunde for the Department of German Studies, Hannah Kreziger, is the winner of the Sustainable Event Planner Raffle given by the Office of Sustainability Initiatives for her commitment to keeping Emory a more sustainable and environmentally friendly campus through achieving gold certification for the Kaffeestunde events last semester.

In her presentation "Mehr als eine Heimat: Contemporary Turkish-German Identities, Belonging, and Resistance" on Friday, February 3, to students of German at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Dr. Uca analyzed diverse perspectives of Turkish-German cultural producers with regard to the complex concept of Heimat (homeland, roots, places of belonging) from the 2010s to today. 

A celebration of progress and a change in leadership at the Tam Institute for Jewish Studies

Associate Professor Paul Buchholz presented "Energy Crisis, Environmental Politics, and the New Left in 1970's West Germany and Austria" at Duke University, Rubenstein Library 249, Carpenter Conference Room, on November 17, at 7:00pm. 

In Fall 2021, Emory College implemented a new required course focusing on race and ethnicity as part of General Education in response to advocacy from Black Students at Emory. on November 2, 2022 in an Emory College Language Center roundtable, Professor Caroline Schaumann, Assistant Professor Didem Uca, and Associate Professor Paul Buchholz from the Department of German Studies shared their experiences of creating and teaching their courses in order to support other faculty from languages, literatures, and cultures fields in their own course development.

Co-translated by Professor Peter Höyng and Professor Emeritus Chauncey J. Mellor, the novel Marylin by Arthur Rundt (1928) was published on September 20, 2022. 

A celebration of progress and a change in leadership at the Tam Institute for Jewish Studies

Congratulations to recently graduated German Studies majors Brooke Daly and Kristin Wadsworth who will spend the 2022-23 academic year as English teaching assistants in the German-speaking world. Brooke will be a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant in Hessen, Germany, and Kristin will be a U.S. Teaching Assistant in Saalfelden, Austria.

Dr. Dan Walter was recognized as the AATG Georgia Professor of the Year.

Dr. Caroline Schaumann has been invited to serve on the editorial board of The German Quarterly

Dr. Hiram Maxim appeared on NPR’s Political Rewind: Lessons For U.S. From Nations That Confront Atrocities With Reflection, Educationwith Bill Nigut.

Dr. Caroline Schaumann has been invited to serve on the editorial board of The German Quarterly

Dr. Peter Höyng received the Excellence in Language Teaching Award from the Emory College Language Center and the Professor of the Year Award from the Georgia Chapter of the American Association of Teachers of German (AATG)

Dr. Hiram Maxim co-edited Language Teaching in the Linguistic Landscape: Mobilizing Pedagogy in Public Space

Dr. Didem Uca received a Max Kade Grant to work on her book project at Washington University's Contemporary German Literature Collection at Olin Library.

Jesus Palenzuela and Adam Weisman received an ECLC Summer Student Assistantship to complete research with Prof. Caroline Schaumann

German Studies major Hannah Kreuziger receives outstanding service award. 

Director Jake Krakovsky and Professor Miriam Udel joined Lois Reitzes to discuss Theater Emory’s bilingual film “Labzik: Tales of a Clever Pup” based on the 1935 stories by Chaver Paver, translated to English by Miriam Udel.

German Studies major Alice Yang received highest honors for her senior thesis in Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology.

German Studies minor Annabel Zhang received highest honors for her senior thesis in Chemistry.

The Association of Jewish Libraries has selected Dr. Miriam Udel for Honey on the Page: A Treasury of Yiddish Children’s Literature as the 2021 awardee for Reference.

Max Henry Wang received an summer 2021 internship with Aprio through the German American Exchange-Internship Program.

• Prof. Paul Buchholz is currently the Fulbright-IFK Senior Fellow in Cultural Studies at the International Research Center for Cultural Studies in Vienna, Austria. 
• Professor Hiram Maxim was named the Masse-Martin/NEH Distinguished Teaching Professor. 
• Professor Caroline Schaumann’s co-edited volume (with Sean Ireton), Mountains and the German Mind: From Gessner to Messner, 1541-2009, will appear in spring 2020. 
• Professor Caroline Schaumann published the article “Tracing Romanticism in the Anthropocene: An Ecocritical Reading of Ludwig Tieck’s Rune Mountain” in Romantic Legacies: Transnational and Transdisciplinary Contexts, edited by Shun-Liang Chao and John Michael Corrigan. 
• German Studies student, Chloe Nathan, received a SURE award for summer research, and her project "The Stages of Alienation: Bertolt Brecht's Play Mother Courage and Her Children in the Global Cold War" was distinguished with a Certificate of Excellence. 

• Professor Paul Buchholz's article “Ecological Pessimism and the Pronouns of the Future in Nicolas Born’s ‘Radikale Ernte’ (1975)" was published in the Summer 2019 issue of The German Quarterly. 
• Professor Miriam Udel receives semikha (ordination) from Yeshivat Maharat through the new Advanced Kollel: Executive Ordination Track. 
• Congratulations to Professor Maxim who is one of the the recipients of the Global Atlanta Innovative Teaching Grant, funded by Emory’s Halle Institute and the CFDE. 
• Congratulations to Alex Simmens who will be part of the newly established Global Language Cohort, directed by Prof. Ana Catarina Teixeira and under the support of Campus Life. 
• German Studies majors, Varsha Chiruvella and Paul Greenstein, have been accepted to present their honor theses research at the Undergraduate Research Conference in German Studies 2019 at Lafayette College in April. 
• Prof. Hiram Maxim received a University Research Committee-Halle Institute International Research Grant to spend the spring semester in Vienna, Austria conducting research on the city’s linguistic landscape 
• 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 Awardfrom 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” 
• Prof. Miriam Udel was awarded a Senior Fellowship at the Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry for the 2018-19 academic year 
• Prof. Hiram Maxim will be the Fulbright-Botstiber Visiting Professor of Austrian-American Studies at the University of Vienna during the Wintersemester 2018-19 
• Prof. Caroline Schaumann's article Alexander Von Humboldt and the Upside of Failure appeared in the Alpinist Magazine Issue 61 Spring 2018. 
• Congratulations to the following German Studies majors and minors who will graduate with honors this May: Jeff Haylon (highest honors in History), Lydia Rautman (highest honors in Environmental Sciences), Amy Tang (highest honors in Philosophy), Jacqueline Teed (high honors in German Studies), and Zoey Zhang (high honors in German Studies) 
• Prof. Paul Buchholz' monograph Private Anarchy: Impossible Community and the Outsider's Monologue in German Experimental Fiction appeared with Northwestern University Press. 
• Senior German Studies major Lydia Rautman has been selected as the College Student of the Year by the Georgia chapter of the American Association of Teachers of German 
• Congratulations to senior German Studies majors Lydia Rautman and Tico Han on being inducted into Phi Beta Kappa 

• Prof. Peter Höyng and Jeff Mellor’s translation of Hugo Bettauer’s novel Das blaue Mal appeared with Camden House Press. Read more about the project here and listen to an interview with the translators with WABE and GPB News. 
• Peter Höyng’s article ‘Der Notlicht-Skandal als Backstage-Nachspiel. Beobachtungen zu Bernhards Der Ignorant und der Wahnsinnige anhand von Hennetmairs Tagebuch’ appeared in the latest issue of Journal of Austrian Studies.  
• Prof. Caroline Schaumann and Heather Sullivan’s co-edited volume German Eco-criticism in the Anthropocene appeared with Palgrave Macmillan. 
• Prof. Paul Buchholz is curating this semester’s Emory Cinematheque film series on the topic of “Resisting Fascism.” Listen to an interview about the series here. 
• The department welcomes Helena Geisler as this year’s Fulbright Teaching Assistant and Dr. Sharon Weiner as Visiting Assistant Professor 
• Recently graduated German Studies major Sarah Hesse (17C) is spending the year as a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant in Maintal, Germany. 
• Prof. Hiram Maxim received the Emory Williams Teaching Award at Commencement 
• The student research project "The first 100 days of fascist Germany" wasfeatured in the Emory Report 
• Prof. Paul Buchholz presented the paper "Cosmos in Crisis: Franz Krahberger's Humbolts Reise" at the Austrian Studies Association conference in Chicago. 
• Prof. Hiram Maxim gave the paper “A multiple-case study of international students’ L3 development in the U.S. university language classroom” with Dr. Glenn Levine (UC-Irvine) at the American Association of Applied Linguistics conference in Portland, Oregon. 
• Prof. Miriam Udel was interviewed about her award-winning book Never Better! 
• Prof. Höyng’s chapter “Goethes Iphigenie als Opfer und seine Iphigenie auf Tauris als Opfergabe“ appeared in the volume “Making Sacrifices-Opfer bringen. Visions of Sacrifice in European and American Cultures - Opfervorstellungen in europäischen und amerikanischen Kulturen,” edited by Nicholas Brooks and Gregor Thuswaldner. 

• Prof. Miriam Udel received from the Jewish Book Council the 2016 National Jewish Book Award in Modern Jewish Thought and Experience for her monograph Never Better! 
• Prof. Peter Höyng was profiled by the Center for Faculty Development and Excellence 
• Prof. Hiram Maxim was interviewed as part of an article on the importance of keeping the foreign language requirement at U.S. colleges and universities. 
• Prof. Caroline Schaumann gave the presentation “Alexander von Humboldts Ansichten der Kordilleren zwischen Ästhetik und Erlebnis” as part of the Postdam Alexander von Humboldt Symposium “Landschaften und Kartographien der Humboldtian Science” in Potsdam, Germany on November 9th. 
• Prof. Paul Buchholz delivered the paper “Minimal Community and Vicarious Narration in Heinz Helle’s Post-apocalyptic Novel Eigentlich müssten wir tanzen” at the annual Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) conference in Pasadena, CA, on November 11th. 
• Emory alumnus Robert Cooper 13C returned to campus to debut his original electronic musical composition to accompany the screening of the classic 1922 German silent film Nosferatu on Friday, Oct. 28. Read more here. 
• The department was well-represented at the 40th German Studies Association Conference in San Diego, CA on Sept 30 – Oct 2: Caroline Schaumann co-organized two sessions on the topic “Anthropocene / Resilience / Violence,” moderated the panel “Literature and Ecocriticism,” and presented the paper “Altered Environments in the Anthropocene.” Peter Höyng served as respondent for the session “Musical Innovation in the 19th Century,” while Paul Buchholz presented the paper "Kafka's Waste" in the session "Metamorphoses: Humans, Animals, Machines" and also served as respondent for the panel "Urban Space in the Late 20th and 21st Centuries." 
• The German Studies Department welcomes new Assistant Professor Paul Buchholz and Fulbright Teaching Assistant Patrick Ernst to the department 
• Senior and German Studies major, Chloe Kipka, was awarded the inaugural Viola Westbrook Endowed Scholarship 
• Miriam Udel’s monograph, Never Better!, appeared with University of Michigan Press. 
• Emory students awarded US-Germany Summer Internships.  
• German Studies majors and minors inducted into German Honor Society, Delta Phi Alpha. 
• German Studies Major Anne Reynolds graduated with Highest Honors in Psychology. 
• Prof. Caroline Schaumann’s research and Natur-Kultur course featured in an article on eco-criticism. 
• Simon Richter to deliver the 3rd Annual Maximilian Aue Memorial Lecture. 
• Philosopher visits campus to discuss ways German history helps address legacies of slavery, segregation in U.S. 
• Miriam Udel is "tackling Yiddish children's literature".  
• The Emory Report featured an article on professor Miriam Udel's research with colleagues professors Marshall Duke and Melvin Konner on Yiddish children's literature.  
• "Peter Höyng presented the paper “‘Aller guten Dinge sind drei’: A threefold and triangular perspective on Austrian authors” at the annual Austrian Studies Association conference in Vienna, Austria. 

• The department was represented on Oct. 2-4, 2015 at the German Studies Association Conference in Washington, D.C. by Caroline Schaumann, who presented the paper “Linguistic Flows in Hans-Christian Enzensberger’s Geschichte der Natur” and served as discussant in the session “Luis Trenker: Heimat and beyond,” and by Hiram Maxim, who co-led a three-day seminar with Marianna Ryshina-Pankova (Georgetown) on “Integrating Language, Culture, and Content Learning across the Undergraduate German Curriculum.” 
• Hiram Maxim and Lance Askildson (Kennesaw State) had their chapter “‘Centering’ foreign language departments around useful outcomes assessment: Challenges and opportunities” appear in the volume Student learning outcomes assessment in college foreign language programs (Honolulu: Hawai’i National Foreign Language Resource Center, 2015). 
• Professor Nick Block was awarded the 2015 Leo Baeck Essay Prize for his forthcoming article “On Nathan Birnbaum’s Messianism and Translating the Jewish Other.” 
• German major Derek Quindry was awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship in Hessen, Germany.  
• Congratulations to German major, Elizabeth "Lizzie" Howell. She was awarded a United States Teaching Assistantship (USTA) at an Austrian Secondary Schools in Bruck an der Mur Austrian-American Educational Commission (Fulbright Commission). She was also inducted into the Omicron Delta Kappa National Leadership Honor Society.  
• US-German Internship Program (AmCham) 2015 recipients 
• German majors graduating with honors :  
• Katie Donovan – Highest Honors in Economics 
• Will Snyder – Highest Honors in Anthropology 
• Micah Castle – High Honors in Spanish 
• Lizzie Howell – Highest Honors in History 
• Chloe Kipka received a SIRE grant for developing a tour on Franz Schubert while she is participating in the Summer Study Abroad Program in Vienna. 
• Tonya Grieb was awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship in Austria in the provence of Vorarlberg in the towns of Dornbirn and Feldkirch. 

• Professor Caroline Schaumann recently published two articles: “The Return of the Bergfilm: Nordwand (2008) and Nanga Parbat (2010).” German Quarterly 87.4 (2014): 416-39., and “Weiße Phantasien: Reinheit und Schmutz in Texten von Luis Trenker, Heinrich Harrer und Hans Ertl.” Literatur für Leser 14.2 (2014): 99-110. 
• Professor Hiram Maxim recently published: ”Curricular integration and faculty development: Teaching language-based content across the foreign language curriculum." In Transforming Postsecondary Foreign Language Teaching in the United States, Janet Swaffar & Per Urlaub (Eds.). New York: Springer, 2014. 79-101. 
• Professor Nick Block recently published: "If I forget thee, O Jerusalem: The Jewish Exilic Mind in Else Lasker-Schüler's IchundIch." Nexus: Essays in German Jewish Studies 2 (2014): 103-120. 
• Professor Peter Höyng recently published two articles: "Die Begräbnisfeier für Otto Habsburg aus der 'Fenstersicht' von Thomas Bernhards Auslöschung. Ein Zerfall (1986)" appeared in the Journal of Austrian Studies, and “Mephistopheles’ Flohlied Meets Beethoven’s Devilish Sting” appeared in the Publications English Goethe Society. 
• Members of the Department have been selected as recipients of the 2014 Stephen A. Freeman Award in recognition of “Overcoming Curricular Bifurcation: A Departmental Approach to Curriculum Reform” a jointly written article about the department's newly reformed curriculum, which appeared in the Die Unterrichtspraxis. 
• Geraldine Nabeta, a German major, was featured in the Student Life section of the Emory Wheel’s recurring “Ask A Major” series. Check out what Geraldine has to say!  
• Professor Caroline Schaumann served as guest co-editor of the most recent issue of Colloquia Germanica with its focus on "Dirty Nature: Grit, Grime, and Genre in the Anthropocene” 
• The Department of German Studies would like to Welcome our new Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant, Anna Maria Berger. 
• German major Abby Weisberger received a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship in Germany. 
• German major Abby Weisberger will graduate with Highest Honors; German minor Hazel Doctor will graduate with High Honors in Psychology, and German minor Matt Niebes will graduate with High Honors in English. 
• German Studies majors Kathleen (Katie) Donovan and William Snyder have been inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. 
• We received funds from the Sustainability Incentives Fund to support the addition of composting in the Modern Languages Building. 
• Congratulations to Professor Hiram Maxim on being promoted to full professorship.  

• An der Schwelle zur Utopie: Zum deutschsprachigen literatischen Venedigbild im 20. Jh. by the late Maximilian Aue was published in Summer 2013 
• The Department of German Studies welcomes Dr. Nick Block, who joined us this semester as a Visiting Assistant Professor. 
• Congratulations to the Faculty of the Department for recently published articles. 
• German Studies majors Robert Cooper and Sarah Corrigan are graduating with honors from Emory College 2013. 
• The Department of German Studies congratulates its annual award winners: Sprachpreis 1st year: Hannah Rose Blakeley; Sprachpreis 2nd year: William Snyder; Yidisher shrakh-priz: Samantha Auerbach and Rachel Tobin; Award of Excellence: Ari Frankel. 
• Congratulations to all graduating seniors: Majors: Robert Cooper, Mimi Hacking, Sam Crawford, Ari Frankel, Josh Guggenheim, Jeff Guo, Daniel Moody, David Track, Sarah Corrigan; Minors: Devan Elmore, Paoula Gueorguieva, Will Rhoads. 
• German Studies majors Robert Cooper and Ari Frankel are recipients of Fulbright English Teaching Assistantships 
• German Studies major Justin Groot is the recipient of the ECLC Award for Excellence in German Language Studies, and David Jevotovsky is the recipient of the ECLC Award for Excellence in Yiddish. 
• The 2013 AmCham internship recipients are; Hokyung You, Anqi Dong, Gizem Gürel, Fabian Mettler, Yanjun Shen, Binje Wei, and Shikha Khinvasara. 
• Congratulations to the 2013 Max Kade Scholarship recipients; Hazel Doctor, Jordan Montano, Derek Quindry, and William Snyder. 
• Prof. Höyng will be a Fulbright Senior Fellow at the Institut für Kulturwissenschaften/Institute for Culture Studies in Vienna from March 1 through June 30, 2013. He will resume his work on "Reading Beethoven's Readings: His Intellectual Life in Vienna. 
• After last year's success, we will be represented again at the Relay for Life at Emory, March 29-30, 2013. Please support us by walking, fundraising, or donating. Join our Relay for life team! 

• It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our dear colleague and friend Maximilian Aue. Professor Aue, a longtime German studies professor who founded the acclaimed Emory in Vienna study abroad program forty years ago, died Aug. 6 from injuries sustained during a vehicular accident. Professor Aue, who was 69, joined Emory's Department of German Studies in 1968. He served as both an associate professor of German and director of graduate studies in the Department of Comparative Literature.  During his 44-year career at Emory, Professor Aue taught thousands of German students at every level of proficiency and we will remember him as a kind, caring colleague and generous teacher. The memorial service for Professor Maximilian Aue will be held at Cannon Chapel at 5:30 Thursday, September 6, 2012. 
• Christina Grajewski, David Trac, Justin Groot, Patrick Martahus, Tianfan Qin, Yating Lou, Ying Zou will start their AmCham internship with German companies in May 2012. 
• Congratulations to the 2012 Max Kade Foundation Scholarship recipients Sarah Corrigan, Maddy Melnick, Caroline Pearson, Abigail Weisberger! The American Association of Teachers in German (AATG), designated our Department as one of only two German Centers of Excellence nationwide. Read more! (Emory Report article) 
• Congratulations to Professor Peter Höyng, who received a research grant from Fulbright Austria. He will conduct his research at the Institut für Kulturwissenschaften in Spring 2013. 
• German Studies-Political Science double major, Lucia Lorenz, received a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship in Germany for the 2012-2013 academic year. 
• Alumnus, Sarah Richards received the Bob Jones Scholarship for the 2012-2013 Academic Year 
• "Oy vey! Yiddish making a comeback at colleges" 
• Former student Miguel Rovira (Class of 2009) just received the Internationales Parlaments-Stipendium to intern in the German Bundestag.