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What does it mean to live in more than one language? Is “being multilingual” a personal talent, a burden of circumstance, a political necessity, a source of pleasure and knowledge, or a curse of history? In the new interdisciplinary honors seminar "…

Prof. Albrecht Classen published a new book, War and Peace: Critical Issues in European Societies and Literature, 800-1800, an edited volume, together with Nadia Margolis (Berlin and New York: De Gruyter). This volume is available in print and in e-…

Please take a moment to browse our Department Newsletter for the upcoming academic year. If you're involved with the Department on a regular basis, chances are there's a mention or a picture of you somewhere in its 24 pages! If you're new to the…

Several UA employees were honored for their outstanding work during the 2011 Staff Awards for Excellence ceremony. The Staff Awards for Excellence, presented annually by the UA Staff Advisory Council, the Appointed Professionals Advisory Council,…

The end of my undergraduate years was similar to what I imagine to be common among liberal arts grads. I had a career field in mind, even an internship and several video projects under my belt. With an elegantly crafted résumé and the best of…

If you’re feeling a bit out of your element, you’re in the right place.  The event “Fisch Out of Water” was designed to celebrate the aesthetic uniqueness that your native tongue brings to your foreign language—quirks, trips of the tongue, and all.…

Social networking in the 18th century was every bit as elaborate, dramatic, and rich a cultural phenomenon as it is today. Wilhelm Heinse's 1787 epistolary painter-novel Ardinghello and the Blissful Islands is an unruly and precarious literary-…

Although we often think that scholars have ploughed through all available archives and libraries for important texts or images from the past, that is not true. A recent case was Professor Albrecht Classen’s rediscovery of the poetry and music by the…

Professor Classen was recently elected Vice President/President Elect of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA). RMMLA is a regional organization, one of six independent branches of the Modern Language Association of America. The non…

German Studies Profs. David Gramling and Chantelle Warner have published their co-authored article “Toward a Contact Pragmatics of Literature: Habitus, Text, and the Advanced L2 Classroom" in the 2010 AAUSC volume Critical and Intercultural Theory…