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Congratulations to Rutgers graduate Nadia Schuman, who will be starting as Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado Boulder's Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures in Fall 2021. Nadia graduated from Rutgers in 2014 with a BA in Psychology German Language and Literature. She went on to Binghamton University, initially in the Behavioral Neuroscience PhD program, but she transferred to the Comparative Literature program in her second semester. Her PhD...

Congratulations to Rutgers graduate Veronika (Jeltsch) Burney, who has just started a position as Director of Programs for the AATG (American Association of Teachers of German). Veronika received her Ph.D. in German Studies from the Rutgers German Program in 2015, where she also gained valuable experience as a Summer Study Abroad Program Assistant. She has taught German at colleges across the US for over a decade, most recently at William & Mary in Williamsburg, VA. As a language educator,...

The Department is happy to announce that Professor Alexander Pichugin has been selected as a recipient of the 2019-2020 School of Arts and Sciences Award for Distinguished Contributions to Undergraduate Education at the Assistant Teaching Professor rank. Our colleague in the Russian Program, Professor Chloë Kitzinger, was also selected as a winner in the Assistant Professor category.

German Major Serena Lückhoff presented her paper "Disembodied Cognition: Constructing a Barrier Between Language and Emotion" at the 2021 Virtual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA). Serena, who is double-majoring in German and Cognitive Science, brought both disciplines together to look at how multilinguals' relationships with their native and non-native languages differ as a function of how they are acquired and represented. She looked at how emotion interacts...

Ian Stuart (German major, graduated in 2019), Giovanna Sartorio (German major, graduated in 2019), and Megan Stanton (German major graduated in 2020) were awarded Fulbright English Teaching Assistantships in Germany for 2020-2021. German students continue to contribute to Rutgers University being a top producer of Fulbright US Student grants! Click here to read more about the Rutgers-Fulbright connection.

German Major Hailey Parikh has been accepted for the 2021 Ruhr Virtual Fellowship Program. The very selective Ruhr Fellowship gives undergraduate students in the US the opportunity to participate in an intercultural and language immersion program at the university level followed by an internship with one of Germany’s leading companies located in the Ruhr Area or a research internship at one of our UA Ruhr universities.  Hailey, a German Studies and Physics double major, has been placed for an...

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Congratulations to PhD student Steven Weinberg, who has received the Deborah S. and Herbert B. Wasserman Research Award from the Bildner Center and the Department of Jewish Studies for Spring 2021. His research focuses on Franz Kafka’s use of Jewish humor. Listen here to his podcast "The Schrift," which incorporates German literature and philosophy to offer insight into the Book of Genesis.

PhD student Anna Mayer was recently featured on the New York Public Library's website, in an ongoing series focusing on researchers working from home. Click here for the full profile!

The Department is thrilled to announce that Professor Michael Levine has received the School of Graduate Studies 2020 Excellence in Teaching and Mentoring Award. This award recognize Professor Levine's ability to inspire and train students through close textual analysis, his success in stimulating lively and productive class discussions, and his extraordinary investment in graduate education not just in the classroom, but as faculty mentor and dissertation advisor, and in a variety of...

German major Mary Mehalick was recently published on NJ.com, writing her experiences being surrounded by stories of grief as an essential worker during the Covid-19 pandemic. Mary's piece is very well written and an emotional reminder of how this virus impacts all of us in many ways. 

We are pleased to share that Professor Nicholas Rennie has received the university-wide Warren I. Susman Award for Excellence in Teaching for 2019-2020. The Warren I. Susman Award for Excellence in Teaching, named to honor the memory of the noted historian and Rutgers University professor, Warren I. Susman, is awarded annually to tenured faculty members "in recognition of outstanding service in stimulating and guiding the intellectual development of students at Rutgers University."...

Graduate Student Steven Weinberg received the German Jewish Studies Research Award for 2020 from the Department of Jewish at Rutgers. Congratulations, Steve!

Dr. Tanja Rommelfanger has successfully defended her dissertation, “Wie bauen? Eine kritische Auseinandersetzung mit der Architektur der unmittelbaren Nachkriegszeit in Film, Radio und Zeitschrift,“ under the guidance of Prof. Fatima Naqvi. The dissertation committee with Professors Henry Sussman, Nicholas Rennie, and Nicola Behrmann was impressed by her unique approach and stellar research. Congratulations, Tanja!

Prof. Nicola Behrmann’s edited volume of the complete poems of Expressionist writer Emmy Hennings appeared with Wallstein Verlag. The 698-pages annotated volume has been co-edited with Simone Sumpf with the assistance of Louanne Burkhardt. Thea Popko, Jessica Fitzner, and Mary Mehalick, undergraduate majors at the German Department, also supported the editors as Aresty Research Assistants.

Congratulations to department Program Coordinator, Elizabeth deWolfe, who was awarded the SAS Staff Excellence Award for 2019.

Congratulations to Christiane Fischer who has been awarded a fellowship at the Center for Cultural Analysis (CCA) at Rutgers for the academic year 2020-2021. Christiane will be participating in an interdisciplinary seminar on “What is Photography” led by Professors Andrés Zervigón and William Galperin.

Congratulations to Steven Weinberg who is the recipient of a DAAD German Studies Research Grant in summer 2020. In addition, Steve has been selected to attend the Harvard World Literature Conference in Belgrade in 2020 as part of the Rutgers cohort.

Congratulations to Thomas Wallerberger who organized a national research project, “Aus Österreich vertriebene FürsorgerInnen” (Banished and Murdered Caretakers from Austria), together with Dr. Irene Messinger. The project is funded by the National Fund of the Republic of Austria for Victims of National Socialism, the Zukunftsfonds der Republik Österreich, and the FH Campus Wien (University of Applied Arts) in Vienna.