Applications for Fall 2025 Graduate Studies Fellowships are Open

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The Department of German is committed to promoting thinking across cultures. Our students achieve a heightened sensitivity to language and its uses for the representation of difference; to questions of translation and cultural transfer; to self-reflexive theory and methodology; and the critical potential of thinking, speaking, and writing.

Learn About the Graduate Program

We encourage applications from students who wish to study German literature and culture through a multidisciplinary and comparative lens.

Meet our Current Graduate Students

Our graduate students work across a range of fields and engage in interdisciplinary research and teaching. Explore current research and projects.

Learn about the Admissions Process

The Department of German is accepting applications for its graduate degree program beginning on September 12, 2024. Learn about the process here.
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Mosse Lecture: Werner Herzog

The Department was honored to host Werner Herzog’s Mosse Lecture at BAMPFA in November 2023. The lecture is now available to watch on demand. View all past Mosse Lectures here. 

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Auf den folgenden Blättern werde ich den Nachweis erbringen, daß es eine psychologische Technik gibt, welche gestattet, Träume zu deuten, und daß bei Anwendung dieses Verfahrens jeder Traum sich als ein sinnvolles psychisches Gebilde herausstellt, welches an angebbarer Stelle in das seelische Treiben des Wachens einzureihen ist.
Sigmund Freud, Die Traumdeutung (1900)