All Posts: Spring 2025

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Past Events
Spring 2025

Department Events: Spring 2025

The German Department hosted a number of events during the Spring 2025 semester! On Wednesday, February 19, we welcomed Dr. Kurt Beals (University of Richmond) to the Arrupe…

May 14, 2025

PhD Students
Spring 2025

Graduate Student News: Spring 2025

Lorna McCarron’s article “Therapists, Vending Machines, and Winding Roads: Race and Mental Health in Olivia Wenzel’s 1000 Serpentinen Angst” appeared in The German…

May 14, 2025

Spring 2025
Undergraduate Students

Undergraduate Student News: Spring 2025

Grace Philippon, a junior in the School of Foreign Service, has just published her article “Nächster Halt, Niemandsland: Fremde und Einheimische Wahrnehmungen der Deutschen…

May 14, 2025

Faculty
Spring 2025

Faculty News

Prof. Joe Cunningham has been elected to a two-year term as Vice President of the Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO). His term will begin at the…

May 14, 2025

Faculty
Spring 2025

Recent Faculty Publications

Professor Mary Helen Dupree’s essay “Inventorying the Audible Past: German-Language Recitation Anthologies in the Nineteenth Century” appeared in the anthology Taking. …

May 14, 2025

Spring 2025

Notes from the Classroom

Professors Marianna Ryshina-Pankova and Astrid Weigert joined the leadership team of a newly established LEAP Initiative (Learning, Equity, Access, and Pedagogy), which is…

May 14, 2025

Spring 2025
Undergraduate Students

German Club Spring Updates

This semester, German Club successfully hosted many exciting events! We started off with a tour of the ZDF TV studio, where we got an inside look at one of Germany’s largest…

May 14, 2025

Spring 2025
Undergraduate Students

Congratulations to our 2025 Graduates!

We asked several of our graduating students for their reflections on their time in the German Department, and we wish them the best of luck for everything to come! Bridget(…

May 14, 2025

PhD Students
Spring 2025

Farewell to Our Graduate Exchange Students!

The German Department was so fortunate to host two graduate exchange students for the 24/25 academic year, Marlene Teige (TU Dresden) and Julian Bastian (Universität Trier).…

May 14, 2025

Spring 2025

Alumni News

Congratulations go to Dr. Aleksandra Starcevic (PhD, 2021) who has received the 2025 Georgia German Professor of the Year award. Aleksandra teaches at Kennesaw State University.…

May 14, 2025