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Erin McGlothlin, professor of German and Jewish studies and vice dean of undergraduate affairs, won the 2023 Sybil Halpern Milton Book Prize for “The Mind of the Holocaust Perpetrator in Fiction and Nonfiction.

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’”.

Sixteenth Century Society & Conference Medal This special award may be given once every five years to the member of the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference who has done the most to promote and to advance the area of early modern studies. Recipients have demonstrated a long-term commitment to the SCSC, continued participation in the various activities of the SCSC, and sustained significant contributions to the field through publications, papers, leadership, service, and support of younger scholars. 

The Fulbright program recognizes talented students who are committed to promoting global collaboration and understanding through research and teaching.

Three graduating seniors will receive our departmental prizes on May 21.

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

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.

Two alumnae from 1992 received significant honors recently.

Professor Kurt Beals has won the 2020 Max Kade Prize for Best Article in The German Quarterly.

Publication of a significant creative work is a milestone in the career of a humanities scholar. The Center for the Humanities in Arts & Sciences shares on its website a glimpse into the book-publishing journey of seven university faculty members.

The German Department is pleased to announce a new fellowship opportunity, named in honor of Professor Gerhild Scholz Williams for her contributions to the field of German Studies, provided by David and Barbara Schaps Thomas LA'76.

Professor Gerhild Williams was honored at the most recent Sixteenth Century Society and Conference, which occurred October 17-20, 2019.

Simone Pfleger, PhD '18, recently received an award from the Coalition of Women in German.

The Center for the Humanities welcomes the newly selected Merle Kling Undergraduate Fellows.

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

Patrick Goff, a December 2018 graduate, has been awarded a Fulbright Student Combined Grant for Study, Research, and Teaching.

Paul Michael Lützeler has been awarded the annual Friedrich-Gundolf-Preis for 2019.

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.

On November 16, 2018, the Contemporary German Literature Collection at Washington University Libraries was renamed the Mike Lützeler Contemporary German Literature Collection in honor of Professor Lützeler.

Senior German major Patrick Goff has been accepted to participate in a DAAD-sponsored seminar.

Professor Lynne Tatlock was this year's recipient of the Arts & Sciences Faculty Leadership Award.

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

Professor Erlin's research was featured in this week's Ampersand, the weekly e-newsletter from Arts & Sciences.

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!

The faculty update us on their 2017 activities.

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.

Congratulations to recent graduate Ben Greenho, who has been awarded a US Teaching Assistantship (USTA) fellowship in to Austria for the 2017-18 academic year.

Stay in touch! We wish you all the best. Click the link for names of the spring 2017 graduates.

Congratulations to Hannah Olsen and Emma Streff, two of our minors who were recently awarded the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship for 2017-18.

Our department Chair, Professor Matt Erlin, gave a lecture at Bowdoin College on April 5, 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.

Professor Erin McGlothlin was recently awarded an Honorable Mention.

Congratulations to Professor Caroline Kita on recently being selected as a Faculty Fellow in the Center for the Humanities for the spring 2018 semester!

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.”

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

Patrick Goff (A&S '18) has been awarded a Merle Kling Undergraduate Honors Fellowship.

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

Prof. Schneider has been awarded a Marie S. Curie FCFP Senior Fellowship from the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS).

Click here to read the annual Stichworte.

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."

Professor Eva Russo has been nominated by the ArtSci Council to receive an award at the annual Faculty Recognition Awards ceremony.

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.

Professor Jennifer Kapczynski will receive the Excellence in Mentoring Award from the Graduate Student Senate.

Professor McGlothlin has been appointed as the new Director of Research for the Center for the Humanities, here at WashU.