Even during the Age of Nationalism, the literary history of Germany/Austria reveals transnational or international forces. Further, what is a “national” literary tradition when political borders are shifting? Joined by colleagues from Washington University and scholars from the U.S., Germany, and Austria, organizers of a Sept. 2-4 symposium argue for “Transnational Framings: The German Literary Field in the Age of Nationalism, 1848-1919.”
Gerhild Scholz Williams discusses the influence of Ottoman power and culture on German prose texts in the 17th century.
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Click here to read the Winter 2018-19 Stichworte. Remember: We want to hear from you! Send an email to Cecily Stewart Hawksworth if you have something to share. Who knows? You may be featured in our next newsletter!
Our faculty give updates about their 2018 activities.
Professor Kita is featured in Center for the Humanities interview about her current book project.
Professor Erlin's research was featured in this week's Ampersand, the weekly e-newsletter from Arts & Sciences.
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The faculty update us on their 2017 activities.
Claire Ross, a 6th year PhD student in Germanic Languages and Literatures, has been abroad in Hamburg, Germany. She provided us this update about her time there.
Anna Nowicki is conducting research in Austria this academic year and sent us this report.
All issues of the annual bibliographies for the Libraries’ Contemporary German Literature Collection are now available as PDF downloads in Open Scholarship.
Knowledge in Motion: Constructing Transcultural Experience in the Medieval and Early Modern Periods (1200–1750) was recently published in DAPHNIS. Zeitschrift für die Mittlere Deutsche Literatur und Kultur (1400-1750): 46 (2017), 3-4.
Heidi Grek, one of our PhD students in German & Comparative Literature, was this past summer's graduate student liaison to our intensive language program in Göttingen. She gave us the following report about this year's group of students.
Professor Erin McGlothlin was recently awarded an Honorable Mention.
Click here to read the Fall/Winter 2016 Stichworte. Remember: We want to hear from you! Send an email to Cecily Stewart Hawksworth if you have something to share. Who knows? You may be featured in our next newsletter!
The faculty update us on their activities in 2016.
Paul Michael Lützeler, the Rosa May Distinguished University Professor in the Humanities, gave keynote addresses in his areas of research (Contemporary, Exile, and Romantic Literature as well as on the literary discourse on Europe) in September and October .
Professor Matt Erlin has won the 2016 DAAD/German Studies Association Book Prize for “Necessary Luxuries: Books, Literature, and the Culture of Consumption in Germany, 1777-1815.”
Christian Schneider's article, "Medieval Literature on the Air: Johannes von Tepl's Der Ackermann in Twentieth-Century Radio Adaptations," appeared recently in Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies.
Matt Erlin's article, "Digital Humanities Masterplots" appeared in the first issue of Digital Literary Studies, an open-access, peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal that publishes scholarly articles on computational approaches to literary analysis/criticism.
Kurt Beals was interviewed for the podcast Cut & Paste on the topic of Franz Kafka.
Jennifer Kapczynski was recently interviewed by the Center for the Humanities about her current book project: What Makes a Democrat? Staging Political Transformation in 1950s West German Film.
Prof. Schneider has been awarded a Marie S. Curie FCFP Senior Fellowship from the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS).
In November, Erin McGlothlin, along with Brad Prager (University of Missouri) and Markus Zisselsberger (University of Miami) organized a collaborative research workshop at the University of Missouri.
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Professor Caroline Kita has been awarded a Franz Werfel Grant from the Austrian Exchange Service.
Matt Erlin has received C$120,000 in conjunction with the C$1.8 million SSHRC Partnership Grant "Text mining the novel: establishing the foundations of a new discipline."
The 21st Biennial Symposium on German Language and Culture was March 29-31, 2012.
Lynne Tatlock received an honorable mention for the Josephine Roberts Prize from the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference.