Brandy E. Wilcox, a Ph.D. candidate in the German program, will present at this year’s Pop Culture Conference at DePaul University in Chicago on May 4th. Under the theme “A Celebration of Disney,” Brandy will join scholars and enthusiasts across many fields with her two talks, the first of which, “Across the Sea, Not Under …
Lucian Rothe, a Ph.D. candidate in the German program, presented his research on “Linking Imagined and Actual Social Spaces: Attributed Stereotypes of Native Speakers with Respect to Foreign Language Choice” at this year’s AAAL Conference in Atlanta, Georgia. This annual conference organized by the American Association for Applied Linguistics is one of the most comprehensive …
Richard Hronek and Lucian Rothe received a Mellon-Wisconsin Fellowship for Summer 2019 from the Graduate School at UW-Madison. Hronek and Rothe are both Ph.D. candidates in the German program and are currently working on their dissertations. Richard Hronek’s dissertation analyzes Jakob Arjouni’s Kayankaya crime series using Friedrich Nietzsche’s concepts of the Apollonian and Dionysian. …
On March 28, 2019, the German and Dutch Graduate Student Association (GDGSA) hosted a professional development event on “Alt-Ac Careers” for graduate students in the Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic. The GDGSA received a Professional Development Grant from the UW-Madison Graduate School to organize a 90-minute roundtable with alumni from the German Program. Following a …
Ian McQuistion (PhD) was one of 10 UW-Madison finalists that has been awarded a Fulbright U.S. Student Program grant for study/research abroad.