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Sukop received the Graduate Student Fellowship through the Center of Humanities through Washington University in St. Louis.

German Ph.D. Student Christian Schuetz has been awarded the 2022 Austrian Studies Association Graduate Student Essay Prize for his paper “Assimilation as Abjection: Subjectivity Formation and Self-Fetishization Against the Anthropological Difference in Franz Kafka’s ‘Ein Bericht für eine Akademie’”.

Germanic Languages and Literatures graduate student Peter Ogunniran is one of four new inductees into the Bouchet Graduate Honor Society.

This fall, we welcome four new PhD students, as well as three exchange students.

Cecily Hawksworth was selected as one of the 2020 recipients of the Graduate Student Senate (GSS) outstanding staff award.

The German Department congratulates our 2020-21 graduates!

Two of our current graduate students will receive the Dean's Award for Teaching Excellence this Thursday.

The German Department is pleased to announce a new scholarship award opportunity provided by Mr. David W. Detjen, LA70, LW73, and Dr. Barbara Morgan Detjen, LA70.

This fall, we welcome three new PhD students

Peter Ogunniran, PhD student in German & Comparative Literature, was one of two students selected to speak during the Vigil.

The German Department congratulates our 2019-20 graduates!

Every semester, students from around the world get to know the United States by attending Washington University. Three current exchange students share their experiences navigating academics and life in their new home.

This fall, we welcome two new PhD students, as well as three exchange students, two new master's students, and one Max Kade research assistant.

The German Department congratulates our 2018-19 graduates!

Adeline Bauder has been chosen as one of the recipients of the 2018-19 Dean's Award for Teaching Excellence.

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!

Hannah Dinkel, our first MA in German and Higher Education Administration student, will graduate in Spring 2019.

This fall, we welcome three new PhD students, as well as three exchange students, one Max Kade research assistant, and a new master's student. We are so happy to have you all!

The German Department congratulates our 2017-18 graduates!

Mikael Olsson Berggren has been chosen as one of the recipients of the 2017-18 Dean's Award for Teaching Excellence.

Click here to read the Winter 2017/18 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!

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.

The Graduate Council has approved a new degree program for our department: the Master of Arts in German and Higher Education Administration.

Sponsored by the American Association of Teachers of German (AATG), today is the first annual National Teach German Day.

This fall, we welcome four new PhD students, as well as our four exchange students, two Max Kade research assistants, and a new master's student. We are so happy to have you all!

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.

Six members of the department successfully completed the St. Louis Go! Marathon Relay on Sunday, April 9, 2017.

Congratulations to Anna-Rebecca Nowicki, a 3rd year doctoral student, who will receive one of the inaugural Liberman Leadership awards in a ceremony to be held on April 12 at 4pm in Umrath Lounge.

Claire Ross, a 5th year doctoral student, has been chosen as one of the winners of the 2016-17 Dean's Award for Teaching Excellence.

From June 3 to 5, Christian Schneider, together with Doren Wohlleben (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg), organized an interdisciplinary symposium.

Anna Nowicki has been awarded the Stefania Gray Graduate Presentation Award at the 8th Annual Cultural Studies Graduate Student Conference and Workshop.

Empress Sanders has been selected as one of the inaugural recipients of the Graduate Student Senate (GSS) outstanding staff award.

Click here to read the annual Stichworte.

Graduate Student Shane Peterson was selected as co-chair of the MLA Committee on the Status of Graduate Students in the Profession.

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