Major, Concentrate, or Minor in German! Take a tour of our program here.

Explore our German Graduate Program and Yiddish Graduate Program.

Christoph Schaub has joined the German Literature and Cultural Studies Department at the University of Vechta, Germany, as Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter. 

Sophie Salvo has joined the German department at the University of Chicago as Assistant Professor. Congratulations, Sophie! 

Michael Swellander, a Ph.D. from 2018, is now a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of German at the University of Iowa.

Michael Gamper is our Max Kade Visiting Professor for Spring 2019.

The following students successfully defended their dissertations in the academic year of 2018: Michael Swellander and Ross Shields.

The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung has reviewed Stefan Andriopoulos’s new book Gespenster, describing its readings of Kant, Hegel, Schiller, and Schopenhauer as "persuasive, precise, and elegant."