Departmental News
News
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Graduating Ph.D. student Jonas Teupert has accepted a tenure-track position at National Taiwan University
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Professor Karen Feldman Receives Faculty Award for Outstanding Mentorship of GSIs
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Graduate Students Win 2021 Outstanding GSI Award
April 15, 2021
Graduate students Caroline Durlacher and Molly Krueger have received the 2021 Outstanding GSI Award. Each year the Graduate Division honors GSIs for their work in teaching that shows dedication, skill and creativity. Congratulations!
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New Publication by Professor Tony Kaes
March 25, 2021
Professor Tony Kaes released a new foreword to the second edition of his book, M (2000), for the Film Classics Series of the British Film Institute (BFI). The new foreword addresses how the past two decades have revealed the film's shocking prescience and prophetic insights into today’s crises of democracy.
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Department Hosts 29th Annual Interdisciplinary German Studies Conference on “Traveling Forms”
March 2, 2021
Organized by graduate students Andrew Blough and Jonas Teupert, the 29th annual interdisciplinary German Studies conference took place February 19-20. Held online, the conference brought together scholars from Germany, the US, and beyond, to consider the circulation of cultural and medial forms on a global scale.
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New Article By Professor Deniz Göktürk
January 25, 2021
Professor Deniz Göktürk published a new article, “Intermedial Solidarity: Drawing Inspiration from the 1970s”, in Monatshefte. Her essay reframes the epic poems of Aras Ören in the context of a multimedia aesthetic project combining poetry, dramatic acting, and documentary to conceive the city as a dynamic site of migration, contact, and change.
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New Publication by Professor Lilla Balint
November 25, 2020
Professor Lilla Balint published a new article, "Rhythm, Form, Critique: Kathrin Röggla's wir schlafen nicht (2004)" in The German Quarterly. The article explores narrative motion in Röggla's experimental documentary novel and the (im)possibility of narrative action under conditions of stasis.
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Professor Niklaus Largier Gives 2020 Cassirer Lecture (Yale)
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Graduate Student, Jonas Teupert Receives Teaching Effectiveness Award
July 29, 2020
Graduate student Jonas Teupert received UC Berkeley's Teaching Effectiveness Award for his essay 'Collaborative Learning in Times of Remote Instruction.' The award recognizes a small number of outstanding GSIs who have identified a particular teaching problem or issue in their own classes and have developed, implemented, and assessed an appropriate and effective response to the problem or issue. Congratulations Jonas!
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Graduate Student Landon Reitz Wins Fulbright Fellowship
April 10, 2020
Landon Reitz has received a Fulbright Fellowship to conduct research in Cologne, Germany in 2021. At the Universität zu Köln Landon will work on his dissertation "The Body and the Book: The Poetics of Reading in German Literature." His project investigates the recurring depiction of readers and reading in German literature. Congratulations Landon!