The Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic wishes to extend condolences to the family and friends of our program’s alum Dieter Kowalski who died in the Sri Lanka bombings on Easter Sunday. Dieter Kowalski who …
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German graduate to present at DePaul Pop Culture Conference
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 …
German graduate student presents at American Association for Applied Linguistics Conference and receives NFMLTA/MLJ travel grant
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 …
German graduate students awarded Mellon-Wisconsin Summer Fellowship
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 …
Graduate students in German, Nordic, and Slavic explore career opportunities outside of academia
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 …
B. Venkat Mani’s GSA/DAAD 2018 Best Book Prize
B. Venkat Mani’s Recoding World Literature: Libraries, Print Culture, and Germany’s Pact with Books (New York: Fordham University Press, 2017) is the winner of the 2018 Best Book Prize of the German Studies Association in Germanistik and Cultural Studies (for a book published …
Pamela Potter Interviewed About Her New Book
Pamela M. Potter, Professor of German at UW-Madison, recently published a new book called Art of Suppression: Confronting the Nazi Past in Histories of the Visual and Performing Arts (University of California Press, 2016). To …
Ian McQuistion (PhD), German literature, Awarded Fulbright
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.
Mark Louden discusses Pennsylvania Dutch with Swissinfo.ch
“For hundreds of years, Pennsylvania Dutch and Swiss German have been spoken in America by the descendants of Swiss immigrants. How do these dialects compare with those spoken in Europe today?” Click to read Mark …
German Grads, Justin Court and Lucian Rothe, set mini-seminars
Have you ever caught yourself thinking: “Never have I ever taught a language course on fascinating topics, such as ‘German protest songs since 1945’, ‘Witches, Wolves, and Wanderlust’, or ‘Northern German dialects’? Well, sentences like …