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Professor Jennifer Kapczynski was interviewed on NPR's All Things Considered.

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.

Master of Arts in German and Higher Education Administration. Several weeks ago, we received the final approval from the Graduate School about a plan that had been in the works for 18 months or so: a new terminal master's degree that combines work in German Studies with coursework and internships in Higher Education Administration.

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.

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.

Claire Meyer began as the department's Business Coordinator on July 5, 2017. As a native St. Louisan, she is very pleased to return to her hometown.

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.