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Sitting in his small office stocked wall-to-wall with bookshelves full of textbooks, journals and critical editions of medieval and early modern texts, University of Arizona professor Albrecht Classen was reading a letter from the Carnegie…

Profs. Chantelle Warner and David Gramling are happy to announce the launch and inaugural issue of Critical Multilingualism Studies (cms.arizona.edu), a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal of scholarship on multilingualism, monolingualism, and…

Prof. David Gramling's recently released article in New German Critique (117, Vol. 39) considers the multilingual situation of concentration camp inmates during the Third Reich. The forced intermingling of scores of European languages produced an…

Prof. David Gramling's new article on the film When We Leave (dir. Feo Aladag, 2010) has just been published in the anthology Turkish German Cinema in the New Millennium (Ed. Sabine Hake and Barbara Mennel, Berghahn Books). Gramling views recent…

For the UA's work in the area of the arts and humanities, especially around teaching, research and international impact, the Times Higher Education World University Rankings has placed the University among the top 50 institutions in the world. In…

At long last, the re-rendered, re-mastered videos from the April 2012 Multilingual, 2.0? International Symposium at the University of Arizona are available free and in full on the German Studies Department's Youtube page. Here you can (re-)watch…

The Department of German Studies is pleased to announce the release of Professor Chantelle Warner's new book The Pragmatics of Literary Testimony: Authenticity Effects in German Social Autobiographies, which just appeared with Routledge. In this…

Join Professor Albrecht Classen and M.A. student Martina Schwalm in a tour of UAMA's magnificent altarpiece of Ciudad Rodrigo. The Altarpiece from Ciudad Rodrigo is an ongoing exhibition at the University of Arizona's Art Museum. The 26 panels from…

Older research on the premodern world limited its focus on the Church, the court, and, more recently, on urban space. The present volume invites readers to consider the meaning of rural space, both in light of ecocritical readings and social-…

"Berlin is poor but sexy“ – Since Berlin´s governing mayor, Klaus Wowereit made this ambiguous observation in a television interview in 2004, it has become a popular slogan and very successful marketing tool to draw an ever growing stream of…