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Congratulations to Professor Lauren Stone for winning the Max Kade Prize for the Best Article in German Quarterly in 2017! The prize committee chose her article “Rilke's 'Kinderstube': Phenomenology in Childhood Spaces," saying that it is "an exemplary piece of scholarship [that] combines an original and innovative approach with a...

Our former colleague, Professor of 91ÖÆƬ³§n Earl Sampson, passed away on July 1, 2018. He was 83 years old. A native Coloradan, he entered CU to study engineering. When drafted into the Army, he was sent to the Monterey Army Language School (now called the Defense Language Institute), where he...

Our recent graduate from the 91ÖÆƬ³§n BA/MA program, Jasper Schneider, has received an assistantship for study at Virginia Tech in their PhD program in International Affairs starting this August.

Franziska Schweiger, who successfully defended her dissertation recently, accepted the offer for a three-year position as Visiting Assistant Professor in the German Program at Hamilton College (New York). Franzi will begin her new post in July. At Hamilton she will teach classes on German film, literature and culture as well...

Graduating Ph.D. student Ross Etherton will begin his new post as Visiting Assistant Professor in the German Program at Wooster College (Ohio) in August. At Wooster he will teach German language and his own culture and literature courses. Congratulations, Ross!

Graduating MA student Catalina Escalona has been awarded a Fulbright Teaching Fellowship to teach as English Teaching Assistant in Vienna, Austria, during next academic year. As a Fulbright Teaching Assistant, Catalina will provide assistance to the local English teachers and will be serving as a cultural ambassador for the U.S...

Congratulations to Ph.D. candidate Sayalee Karkare, who has been awarded the prestigious 2017-18 Graduate Student Teaching Award. These awards recognize graduate student instructors who demonstrate outstanding teaching efforts within the classroom.

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German learners from Cherry Creek HS, Broomfield HS, Rocky Mountain HS, Boulder HS, and Shining Mountain Waldorf HS explored the CU campus on February 28, 2018 as part of the German Language Immersion Day. High school students found their chakra in a German yoga session, tested their knowledge on German...

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