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Congratulations to Prof. Galasso on the publication of Genre, Race, and the Production of Subjectivity in German Romanticism! Prof. Stephanie Galasso’s monograph is out now with Northwestern University Press. In it, she argues that modern genre theory takes for granted a racially coded universality dating back to late Enlightenment and Romantic aesthetics. Copies of Prof. Galasso's book can be ordered through the link here.

The Rutgers German Department's Bob and Charlotte Craig Visiting Professor for Fall 2024 will be Dr. Philipp Felsch. Philipp Felsch is Professor for Cultural History at the Humboldt University Berlin. As an intellectual historian he is interested in the social life of the ideas that have shaped the postwar period up to our present age. His latest books in English are The Summer of Theory: History of a Rebellion, 1960-1990 (2021 – for a current review see...

Dr. Stefanie Populorum has successfully defended her dissertation, "Ökonomien des Untergangs. Krisennarrative bei Franz Kafka, Fritz Lang und Joseph Roth" under the guidance of Prof. Nicola Behrmann. The dissertation committee consisted of Professors Nicola Behrmann, Michael Levine, Fatima Naqvi, and Henry Sussman. Congratulations, Stefanie!

Dr. Christiane Fischer has successfully defended her dissertation, "Seeing Nothing: Violence and Representation in Harun Farocki, Yoko Tawada, Hito Steyerl, and Christian Petzold" under the guidance of Prof. Michael Levine. The dissertation committee was comprised of Professor Michael Levine, Nicola Behrmann, Regina Karl, and Randall Halle. Congratulations, Dr. Fischer!

The Red 1 Mark NovelsJanuary 24th, 2024 - April 24th, 2024Finissage: April 24th, 2024 at 12pmOpen hours: Monday- Friday, 9am - 4:30pm Location: open area in the German Department, Academic Building West Wing, 4th floor

Congratulations to German Minor Will Hoover, who has been awarded an English Teaching Assistantship in the US Teaching Assistantship Program, run by the Austrian Ministry of Education, Science and Research (BMBWF) and administered by Fulbright Austria. He will be serving as an English Teaching Assistant at two secondary schools in Vienna, Austria, for the 2023-2024 school year.

Dr. Steven Weinberg has successfully defended his dissertation, "An Ersatz Kabbalah: The Dialogue between Gershom Scholem and Walter Benjamin on Hope and Failure in Kafka's Literature" under the guidance of Prof. Michael Levine. The dissertation committee with Professors Martha Helfer, Michael Levine, Dominik Zechner and Erica Weitzman was imrpessed by his outstanding research. Congratulations, Steve!

Congratulations to PhD student and Teaching Assistant Alexandra Friedrich, who has been awarded the 2022-2023 Award for Distinguished Contributions to Undergraduate Education at the TA rank! This is an amazing and well-deserved recognition of an excellent instructor.

We congratulate our German Major Emily Trujillo for winning the Max Kade Prize for Best Presentation with her paper "Unchrist: Religion & Inversion in Kafka's Die Verwandlung," presented at the 12th Undergraduate Research Conference in German Studies, organized by Moravian University and Lafayette College. Emily's close reading of Kafka's novella understands Gregor Samsa the Ungeziefer as an inverted Christ figure, suggesting that the flattened, forgotten, trash-like status of his dying is a...

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We are proud to announce that recent Rutgers graduate, former German Major, and Henry Rutgers Scholar Serena Lückhoff accepted a Ph.D. Fellowship in German Studies from Brown University. We wish her all the best for her future academic endeavors!

We are pleased to welcome two esteemed visitors to our department for the Spring 2023 semester!  Professor Jan Mieszkowski will join the department from Reed College for the semester as our Spring 2023 Charlotte M. Craig Distinguished Visiting Professor. He will be teaching an undergraduate course on Plants and Politics (470:304:01) and a graduate seminar titled The Sentence (16:470:672:01). Professor Mieszkowski's research focuses on modern European literature and philosophy, and he is...

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We proudly announce the publication of Prof. Michael Levine’s new book “Interventionen” (Klostermann, 2022), which contains the German translations of his various essays on the poetry of Paul Celan. Congratulations! 

We are celebrating the publication of “Forces of Education: Walter Benjamin and the Politics of Pedagogy” (Bloomsbury), co-edited by Prof. Dominik Zechner and Prof. Dennis Johannßen. “Forces of Education” brings together a polyphony of critical voices assessing the early work of German Jewish philosopher Walter Benjamin and the way in which it defined the concept of education as one of the core themes of his entire oeuvre. 

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Congratulations to PhD Student Thomas Wallerberger, who has been awarded a "Förderungspreis der Stadt Wien in der Sparte Geistes-, Sozial-, Kultur- und Rechtswissenschaften" from the City of Vienna!

Dr. Anna Mayer has successfully defended her dissertation, "Vom Raster zum Netzwerk: Der westdeutsche Überwachungsapparat der 1970er Jahre in den Werken von Volker Schlöndorff, Margarethe von Trotta, Friedrich Christian Delius und Rainald Goetz" under the guidance of Prof. Fatima Naqvi. The dissertation committee with Professors Nicola Behrmann, Nicholas Rennie, and Rupert Gaderer was impressed by her outstanding research. Congratulations, Anna!

Congratulations to PhD Candidate Anna Mayer on her new position as Visiting Assistant Professor at Vassar College this upcoming academic year! Anna is currently in the process of finishing her dissertation thesis. Congratulations, Anna!