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Professor of German Studies Helmut Müller-Sievers is the recipient of the 115th Distinguished Research Lectureship. The Lectureship is among the most esteemed honors bestowed by the faculty upon a faculty member at the University of Colorado Boulder. Professor Müller-Sievers will deliver a virtual lecture, “On Common Ground­—Goethe, the Modern Novel,...

Title: New article on SPEX by German PhD Student Petra Sertic German PhD Student Petra Sertic published a new article in the recent issue of Archiv für Sozialgeschichte der Deutschen Literatur: Who Was Mrs. Benway? A Form of Art Criticism and Critique as a Form of Art in Spex Magazine...

GSLL is sad to share the news of Professor David Shneer’s death. Professor Shneer was the Louis P. Singer Endowed Chair in Jewish History at CU Boulder, and he worked closely with GSLL faculty and students. He was a cherished colleague, mentor, advisor, and teacher. We are grateful to have...

Professor Weber’s new book Precarious Intimacies: The Politics of Touch in Contemporary Western European Cinema , co-written with Maria Stehle, was published in August 2020 by Northwestern University Press. In its analyses of recent European films, the book proposes the notion of “precarious intimacies” to navigate a dilemma: how to...

In The Case of Literature , Arne Höcker offers a radical reassessment of the modern European literary canon. His reinterpretations of Goethe, Schiller, Büchner, Döblin, Musil, and Kafka show how literary and scientific narratives have determined each other over the past three centuries, and he argues that modern literature not...

Adi Nester, who will graduate from the German PhD program in May, accepted a tenure track position as Assistant Professor of German-Jewish Studies at the University of North-Carolina in Chapel Hill. Congratulations, Adi!

German learners from Cherry Creek High School, Broomfield High School, Boulder High School, and Shining Mountain Waldorf School explored the CU campus on February 28 as part of the German Language Immersion Day. High school students tested their knowledge on German- American art, music, and popular culture in a game...

Congratulations to Professor Helmut Müller-Sievers for his selection as CU's 2019 Distinguished Research Lecturer! As the official announcement says, "The Lectureship is among the most esteemed honors bestowed by the faculty upon a faculty member at the University of Colorado Boulder." Professor Müller-Sievers will be delivering his lecture titled "Engineering...

Students of the fall semester German 2020 course won second and third prizes in the national contest First Encounters (organized by the American Association of Teachers of German) in which learners were invited to explore the German roots and German-American encounters in their own communities and to document and share...

What did the first encounters between German immigrants and the local American population look like? How did Germans adjust to their new environment abroad? And what challenges and problems occurred during these transnational and transcultural encounters? Students of CU Boulder’s second-year German language course sought answers to these and other...