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The German Department wishes Mike Lützeler a Happy 80th Birthday!
Erin McGlothlin wins Sybil Halpern Milton Book Prize
Faculty Changes for the German Department
Williams awarded Sixteenth Century Society and Conference medal (2022)
The German Department Welcomes Two New Faculty Members
Lynne Tatlock Featured in The Ampersand
Transnational literature in the age of nationalism
New book reveals the connected histories of Vienna and Constantinople
Get to know the incoming vice dean of undergraduate affairs
McGlothlin named vice dean of undergraduate affairs in Arts & Sciences
Professor Beals wins Max Kade Prize for Best Article
A Statement on the Role of Humanities Research and Education in Times of Crisis
Professor McGlothlin's Edited Volume receives review in Los Angeles Review of Books
Professor Kita and Professor Beals featured in Perspectives
Professor Williams honored at Sixteenth Century Society & Conference
Sarah Westphal-Wihl
New Assistant Professor to start in Fall 2019
Paul Michael Lützeler awarded Friedrich-Gundolf-Prize for 2019
Winter 2018-19 Newsletter
2018 Faculty Updates
Washington University Libraries dedicate Mike Lützeler Contemporary German Literature Collection
Professor Erin McGlothlin featured in Center for the Humanities article previewing November 5 Holocaust Memorial Lecture
Professor Lynne Tatlock receives Arts & Sciences Faculty Leadership Award
New Postdocs for 2018-19!
Professor Erlin, Professor Kita, and Professor McGlothlin featured in Ampersand article about first ever Summer Humanities Institute
Professor McGlothlin and Professor Walke take FOCUS Class on Study Trip
Professor Kita interviewed: ‘How We Listen Shapes How We View the World’: The Radio Drama in Post-WWII Germany
Professor Erlin featured in Ampersand
Winter 2017-18 Newsletter
2017 Faculty Updates
We Welcome Two Postdocs!
Professor Kapczynski on NPR's All Things Considered
Professor Williams & Professor Schneider recently published
October 4 - National Teach German Day
Job Opening in German Department
Professor Erlin Gives Lecture at Bowdoin College
Members of the Department Participated in St. Louis Go! Marathon Relay Event
Professor McGlothlin awarded Honorable Mention
Farewell to Egon Schwarz (1922-2017)
Obituary for Egon Schwarz
Professor Kita selected as Center for the Humanities Faculty Fellow
Fall/Winter 2016 Newsletter
2016 Faculty Updates
Recent Keynote Addresses by Professor Lützeler
Professor Erlin wins DAAD/GSA book prize
Professor Christian Schneider's article appears in Seminar
Professor Erlin publishes article in inaugural issue of Digital Literary Studies
Professor Schneider organizes international symposium at Heidelberg University
Professor Beals featured on St. Louis Public Radio
Interview with Professor Kapczynski on Postwar German film
Professor Schneider awarded a Marie S. Curie FCFP Senior Fellowship from the University of Freiburg and the European Union
Professor McGlothlin organizes a collaborative research workshop
Fall 2015 Department Newsletter
Professor Lützeler elected a new member of the Executive Committee of the Gesellschaft für interkulturelle Germanistik
Professor Williams elected president of Frühe Neuzeit Interdisziplinär (FNI)
Professor Kita awarded a Franz Werfel Grant from the Austrian Exchange Service
Professor Erlin delivers keynote address at Penn DH Conference
Professor McGlothlin interviewed by Humanities Center about current book project on Holocaust perpetrators
Professor Kurt Beals receives a 2014 PEN/HEIM Translation Fund Grant
Professors McGlothlin and Kapczynski awarded A&S Summer Faculty Research Grants
Professor Tatlock elected an honorary member of the AATG
New Book Series: Dialogue and Disjunction
PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant
Papers at the German Studies Association (GSA) Conference
Weimar am Pazifik
Professor Matt Erlin awarded SSHRC Partnership Grant
Professor Lynne Tatlock featured in WashU's "Hold That Thought" On Language Series
Professor Erin McGlothlin awarded the Mid-Career Faculty Fellowship by the Center for the Humanities
Professor Eva Russo nominated to receive the James E. McLeod Faculty Recognition Award
Professors Matt Erlin and Lynne Tatlock publish essay anthology "Distant Readings: Topologies of German Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century"
In Emeritus News...
Professor Paul Michael Lützeler selected as a Summer 2014 Fellow by the Morphomata International Center for Advanced Studies of the University of Cologne
Professor Emeritus Egon Schwarz's most recent book, "Wien und die Juden. Essays zum Fin de Siècle," published by C. H. Beck in Munich
Professor Erin McGlothlin to co-chair upcoming seminar for the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies
Professor Tatlock receives Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award
"A New History of German Cinema" Chosen as Film Book of the Year
Professor McGlothlin's "Hold That Thought" podcast episode featured on university Facebook page
New Faculty Join Department
Koepnick on the Role of Opera in the Films of Werner Herzog
Professor Erlin appointed Director of Graduate Studies
Lützeler Elected President of the American Friends of the German Literary/Archives
Professor Tatlock Publishes Book: German Writing, American Reading
Lützeler Co-Organizes International Conference on Hermann Broch
Lützeler summer fellow at Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies
Lützeler Honored at Portugal Conference
Lutzeler serves as fellow at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS) in Germany for Summer 2012
Professors McGlothlin and Kapczynski present "Representing Medicine In and After the Holocaust" at Holocaust Memorial Lecture
Department hosts "Distant Readings, Descriptive Turns" Symposium
Mike Lutzeler speaks at international convention of ALEG (Latin American German Studies Association)
Lützeler co-organizes the international Hermann Broch symposium at the Austrian Literary Archive
Tatlock receives honorable mention for the Josephine Roberts prize for a Scholarly Edition
Kapczynski awarded GSA/DAAD Article Prize for “Postwar Ghosts: /Heimatfilm/ and the Specter of Male Violence"
Tatlock presents paper at the "Metropole, Provinz und Welt" conference at Humboldt University in Berlin
Luetzeler gives the President's Lecture at the University of Vermont on "U.S. Writers on Europe: The Competition Between the American and the European Dream"
McGlothlin delivers faculty address at New Student Convocation on August 25
Lützeler gives lectures at universities and Goethe Institutes in Dublin, Brussels, Louvain, Augsburg, Mannheim, and Luxemburg
Kapczynski presents "Living, Memory: The Politics of Conservation in Robert Thalheim’s Am Ende kommen Touristen (2004)"
Lützeler leads weekend seminar on contemporary German literature at the Deutsche Literaturarchiv in Marbach
McGlothlin delivers "Ten Million Words" at Arts & Sciences Recognition Ceremony
Lützeler delivers concluding lecture on "The Repercussions of the Modern Era" at an international Hermann Broch symposium at Yale University
McGlothlin and Kafalenos host the 2011 International Conference on Narrative, April 7-10, 2011
Paul Michael Luetzeler, Jennifer Kapczynski (Ed.) publish book
Kapczynski receives Excellence in Mentoring award
Williams elected president of SGRABL (The Society of German Renaissance and Baroque Literature)
Erlin receives NEH Grant for "Necessary Luxuries: German Literature and the World of Goods, 1770-1815"
Lützeler elected member of the Strategy Commission of the German Research Council
Kapczynski delivers paper, "The Uncanny Sames: Familiar Alterity in West German Crime Film of the 1950s"
Tatlock receives Florence Steiner Award
Lützeler publishes edition, Hermann Broch's study "Hofmannsthal und seine Zeit," Italian translation
McGlothlin appointed Director of Research for the Center for the Humanities
Lützeler gives keynote lecture at Germanistenverband
Williams publishes book: Mothering Baby: On Being a Woman in Early Modern Germany