Departmental News
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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 this website’s section on graduate admissions.
Read moreSeptember 20, 2019
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Graduate student Landon Reitz presented in May at the 54th International Congress on Medieval States. His paper was entitled “Reading with the Entire Body.”
Read moreSeptember 3, 2019
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The Max Kade Foundation provided 2019 summer travel support to 15 UC Berkeley graduate students.
Read moreSeptember 3, 2019
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Professor Niklaus Largier hosted and co-taught a weeklong summer school at UC Berkeley on the topic “Formen des Übens” in August 2019, as part of a cooperation with Universität zu Köln.
Read moreSeptember 3, 2019
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Graduate students Jarrett Dury-Agri, Alicia Roy, Michael Sandberg, and Cara Tovey presented their work at the June 2019 BTWH (Berkeley-Tübingen-Wien-Harvard) international working group conference in Bale, Croatia, on the topic “Verdinglichung/Reification.”
Read moreSeptember 3, 2019
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Professor Anton Kaes published “Der Traum vom Kino: Zur Filmtheorie der Weimarer Republik,” which appears in the catalogue to the exhibition “Kino der Moderne: Film in der Weimarar Republik,” currently showing at the Kinemathek Berlin.
Read moreSeptember 3, 2019
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UC Berkeley’s 27th annual German Department Graduate Conference on the topic of “Affective Realisms” was organized by graduate students Caroline Durlacher, Molly Krueger, Landon Reitz, and Michael Sandberg.
Read moreSeptember 3, 2019
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New book chapter by Prof. Jeroen Dewulf
Read moreJune 25, 2019
Sangamentos on Congo Square? Kongolese Warriors, Brotherhood Kings, and Mardi Gras Indians in New Orleans, Cécile Fromont (ed.): Afro-Catholic Festivals in the Americas: Performance, Representation, and the Making of Black Atlantic Tradition (University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2019), 23-41 https://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-08329-2.html
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New article by Prof. Jeroen Dewulf
Read moreMarch 27, 2019
“Iberian linguistic elements among the black population in New Netherland (1614–1664)”, Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 34:1, 2019
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New book by Prof. Irmengard Rauch
Read moreMarch 12, 2019
Selected Writings of Irmengard Rauch, Berkeley Insights in Linguistics and Semiotics vol. 98 (2019) Selected Writings of Irmengard Rauch represents that portion of Irmengard Rauch’s articles which center on contemporary and historical Germanic linguistic phenomena. They thus speak to the principal North, East, and West Germanic dialects. Her authored books The Old High German Diphthongization: A Description of a Phonemic Change (1967); The Old Saxon Language: Grammar, Epic Narrative, Linguistic Interference (1992); Semiotic Insights: The Data Do the Talking (1998); The Gothic Language: Grammar, Genetic Provenance and Typology, Readings (2003, 2011); The Phonology/Paraphonology Interface and the Sounds of German Across…