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Professor Helfer awarded the SAS Award for Distinguished Contributions to Undergraduate Education in May 2019

Congratulations to Professor Martha Helfer, who was awarded the SAS Award for Distinguished Contributions to Undergraduate Education at the Professor Level in May 2019. Click here for the press release!

Meet our new German professors!

The Department of German, Russian and East European Languages and Literatures is thrilled to welcome two new German professors to the faculty.

Regina Karl joined the department in Fall 2019, and Dominik Zechner will join the department in Fall 2020.

Click here to learn more about them!

German students present research project at NeMLA

Two of our current German students, Han Yan and Shuyu Chen, successfully presented their Aresty Research Project "World Languages at Rutgers: a Multimedia Project" at the Undergraduate Research Symposium of the 50th Anniversary Convention of the North-East Modern Language Association Conference (NeMLA), Washington DC, under the direction of Dr. Alexander Pichugin. NeMLA is a prestigious regional conference, and we are all very proud of their hard work!

2019 Call for PhD Applications

Please pdf click here (1.49 MB) to learn more about our PhD program!

Experiencing Fairy Tales without the "G" Rating

Martha Helfer's Fairy Tales course was featured in Rutgers Today and the SAS News Digest. It's one of our department's most popular courses year after year - for good reason! Click here to read more.