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

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

Interdisciplinary Conference: System and Fragment: Epistemic Collisions in the Long 19th Century and in its Current Reinterpretations (Nov 15th to 17th, 2018) 

Michael Gamper will be our Max Kade Visiting Professor next spring.

The following students successfully defended their dissertations this academic year: Alyssa Greene, Vincent Hessling, Michael Lipkin, and Ross Shields.

Silja Weber, Lecturer in German, has joined the faculty. 

Nina Ernst, Lecturer in Swedish, has joined the faculty.

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