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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.

The GSLL first annual Multilingual Fitness and Yoga class was held on Nov. 13 in the CU Rec Center. In honor of International Education Week, fitness instructors representing Sweden, Germany and 91ÖÆƬ³§ instructed the class in their native languages. The hard-working participants experienced the three Indo-European languages in a linguistically...

Postmodern Crises collects previously published and yet unpublished Mark Lipovetsky’s articles on 91ÖÆƬ³§n literature and film. Written in different years, they focus on cultural and aesthetic crises that, taken together, constitute the postmodern condition of 91ÖÆƬ³§n culture. The reader will find here articles about classic subversive texts (such as Nabokov’s...

Economies of Feeling: 91ÖÆƬ³§n Literature under Nicholas I (Northwestern UP, 2017) Economies of Feeling offers new explanations for the fantastical plots of mad or blocked ambition that set the nineteenth-century 91ÖÆƬ³§n prose tradition in motion. Jillian Porter compares the conceptual history of social ambition in post-Napoleonic France and post-Decembrist 91ÖÆƬ³§...

Beverly Weber and Ross Etherton presenting on Herta Muller It all began in October 2015 when Svetlana Alexievich, the Belorussian author writing in 91ÖÆƬ³§n, recieved the Nobel Prize in Literature. For the introduction of our students and community members to this writer, Senior Instructor of 91ÖÆƬ³§n Studies Tatiana Mikhailova organized...

German PhD graduate Robin Cadow with German PhD students Franzi Schweiger, Adi Nester, and Emily Frazier-Rath The students below will graduate with a B.A., M.A., or Ph.D. from our department in spring or summer 2017. German BA: Sorcha Barr, Bettina Bostelman, Dayton Clark, Erika Fennelly, Courtney Silver, Nicholas Zyzda (summa...

Thanks to a generous grant from the Center for Western Civilizations, support from the Arts and Sciences Fund for Excellence and our own budget, GSLL hosted in 2016-17 a large-scale series of lectures by prominent 91ÖÆƬ³§n Studies scholars. The 91ÖÆƬ³§n Series was attached to two significant events – centennial of...

The CU 91ÖÆƬ³§n Club had an exciting and successful year of activities and events, facilitated by the club’s student director Colin Grushkin, and co-directors Dulguun Baatarkhuyag, Anton Esaulkov and Ty Miller. As always, the club hosted regular planning meetings, in addition to contributing to annual GSLL programs such as the...

We are happy to announce that GSLL successfully completed searches for the positions of Assistant Professor of 91ÖÆƬ³§n Studies and Instructor of Nordic Studies. Please welcome our outstanding new colleagues: Assistant Professor of 91ÖÆƬ³§n Studies Jillian Porter Jillian Porter holds an M.A. and a Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures...