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DEPARTMENT NEWS
 
Check out our Fall 2012 undergraduate course offerings for two new exciting courses!
We will be offering:

- German 301, Introduction to Literary & Cultural Analysis - On the Crime Scene and Beyond: Crime in German Cultural Discourse, taught in German by Dr. Alexander Pichugin

- German 365, Literature & Social Change - German Experiments and Nightmares from Realism to Modernism, taught in English by Dr. Chadwick Smith

We hope you will get the chance to take advantage of these two fascinating classes!
 
 
The Department offers its heartiest congratulations to Professor Martha Helfer on her richly deserved promotion to the rank of Professor I!
 
  The Department congratulates Professor Edyta Bojanowska on her promotion to the rank of Associate Professor and on the approval of her tenure!
  Professor Bojanowska is also a 2012 recipient of the SAS Award for Distinguished Contributions to Undergraduate Education, Assistant Professor Category. The Department congratulates Professor Bojanowska on all of her accomplishments!
 
 
 


The Department congratulates Professor Martha Helfer on the publication of her latest book!

The Word Unheard: Legacies of Anti-Semitism in German Literature and Culture, published by Northwestern University Press, "marks a stunningly original new direction in the interpretation of canonical works of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century German literature."

For a detailed description of the book, please click here.
 
 

The Department congratulates Professor Emily Van Buskirk on the publication of her latest work!

Passing Characters (Prokhodiashchie kharaktery) the first scholarly edition of Lydia Ginzburg’s prose, is a volume of writings from and about the Leningrad Blockade (1941-1944). Passing Characters brings together an impressive array of Ginzburg’s narratives, essays, and notes from the war years, many of which are published here for the first time. The book, containing articles by Prof. Van Buskirk and co-editor Andrei Zorin, textual histories, commentaries, and an index of names, represents the fruition of years of archival research. It has already been widely and enthusiastically reviewed in Russian print and electronic media, as well as on Russian television.

For a more detailed description of the book, please click here (.pdf).

 
 
       
 
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