The Department of German Studies offers a full range of courses in German language, literature and culture. Our students combine their interest in German-speaking countries with a wide variety of other pursuits: literature, history, philosophy, aesthetics, international relations, film and many more. The department encourages this approach with a flexible curriculum, collaboration with faculty in other departments, and course offerings which provide depth of cultural understanding and address current topics of interest.
SPOTLIGHT ON STUDENTS
The department congratulates all graduating seniors. For details on what some of our seniors are doing in Germany after graduation, see the departmental newsletter HERE.
SPOTLIGHT ON FACULTY
Professor Thomas Kniesche's new book:
Projektionen von Amerika
In his new book, Thomas Kniesche explores how the image of the US has developed in German-Jewish literature of the 20th century. How is ‘America’ viewed before and after the Holocaust? What is the impact of first-hand experience, image-transfer through other media, and projection in texts on America by Franz Kafka, Joseph Roth, Egon Erwin Kisch, Jakob Wassermann, Grete Weil, Edgar Hilsenrath, Maxim Biller, and Peter Stephan Jungk? Is emigration to America seen as an act of liberation from oppression or as a threat to Jewish identity? Is America a utopia or the place where one represses the past? What is the function of ‘America’ for present-day Holocaust discourses in Germany? These are some of the questions this study tries to answer.
Professor Zachary Sng Honored
Professor Sng has been selected by the Dean of the Faculty to receive the John Rowe Workman Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching in the Humanities for 2008-09.
NEW COURSES OFFERED - FALL 2008
Visiting Assistant Professor Lara Kelingos to teach two new courses for Fall 2008 (pending CCC approval):
GRMN 1660A - Amazons and other Gender Benders in German Literature and Letters
GRMN 1660C - Culture in the Nazi Era
Click HERE for details.
