April 8, 2020

Graduate students Adam Nunes, Kumars Salehi, and Jonas Teupert have received the  2020 of the Outstanding GSI Award. Each year the Graduate Division honors GSIs each year for their outstanding work in teaching. Adam, Kumars, and Jonas have shown dedication, skill and creativity in their teaching.   Congratulations Adam, Kumars, and Jonas!              

December 8, 2019

Professor Claire Kramsch's most recent book, The Multilingual Instructor: What Foreign Language Teachers Say about Their Experience and Why It Matters (with Lihua Zhang), won the MLA's Kenneth W. Mildenberger Prize. The prize is awarded to an outstanding work in the fields of language, culture, literacy, and literature with strong application to the teaching of languages other than English.   Congratulations Professor Kramsch!  

November 16, 2019

The Berkeley German Department is pleased to announce a call for papers for the 28th Annual Berkeley German Studies Conference.  Please send submissions to berkeleygermanconference@gmail.com by December 31, 2019.

November 1, 2019

The Department invites applications for multi-year doctoral fellowships in all areas, including cross-disciplinary studies. In cooperation with the Center for Jewish Studies we also offer support for students working on German-Jewish topics. In addition, we are very proud to announce the newly established Sunrise Foundation Fellowship in German Film and Media. For more information on application details, please click here.

October 24, 2019

Professor Deniz Göktürk has published a new book on the social dynamics of humor: Komik der Integration. Grenzpraktiken und Identifikationen des Sozialen, co-edited with Uwe Wirth and Özkan Ezli.   Congratulations Professor Göktürk!

September 27, 2019

We are grateful to the Sunrise Foundation for the establishment of a new Fellowship in German Film & Media. The Sunrise Foundation for Education and the Arts has a central mission in the promotion of German film and media. It recently sponsored the reconstruction and distribution of several classic silent films (Das alte Gesetz 1923 and Die Stadt ohne Juden 1924) and has supported the academic study of German cinema through workshops and seminars.

September 20, 2019

The Department invites applications for multi-year doctoral fellowships in all areas, including cross-disciplinary studies. In cooperation with the Center for Jewish Studies we also offer support for students working on German-Jewish topics. In addition, we are very proud to announce the newly established Sunrise Foundation Fellowship in German Film and Media. For more information about applications, please see our website's section on graduate admissions. 

September 3, 2019

Last May, graduate student Landon Reitz presented a paper at the 54th International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, MI. He presented his paper, "Reading with the Entire Body," on a panel convened by the Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Stanford University.  

September 3, 2019

September 3, 2019

Professor Niklaus Largier recently hosted and co-taught a weeklong summer school at UC Berkeley on the topic “Formen des Übens.” The summer school is a part of an ongoing cooperation with Universität zu Köln where the event is held in alternating years.