Beverly Weber

Congratulations to Beverly Weber!

Sept. 13, 2016

A committee of departmental chairs in the division of the Arts and Humanities has selected Beverly’s proposal, “The Race of Human Rights: Racialization and Refugees in Contemporary Germany," as the Mellon New Directions Fellowship candidate for the University of Colorado this year. Please join me in congratulating Beverly’s with this...

Varsity pond

German Ph.D. students awarded Eaton Graduate Student Travel Grant.

Sept. 13, 2016

German Ph.D. students Franziska Schweiger and Ross Etherton received the Eaton Graduate Student Travel Grant to support their participation in the annual conference of the German Studies Association (GSA) in San Diego. Each year, the Eaton Travel grant is awarded on a competitive basis to 10 students by the Center...

varsity bridge

Congratulations to the Russian major David Friedman

Aug. 22, 2016

Congratulations to the Russian major David Friedman, the recipient of the Alexander Foundation educational scholarship. http://thealexanderfoundation.org/

Grace van Sweringen Baur

Grace van Sweringen Baur Papers

Aug. 15, 2016

While working at The Department of Special Collections at Norlin Library this summer, German PhD student Maggie Rosenau processed the Grace van Sweringen Baur papers and created a finding aid that will make Dr. Baur's collection accessible via CU's Guide to Manuscript Collections as well as through the Rocky Mountain...

Don Quixote windmills

Shakespeare and Cervantes: Two Geniuses and One Death Date

Aug. 15, 2016

German PhD student Maggie Rosenau curated the exhibit Shakespeare and Cervantes: Two Geniuses and One Death Date , which will be on display alongside More Things in Heaven and Earth: Science in the Time of Shakespeare at Special Collections in Norlin library through December 2016. The exhibits compliment the First...

McKenna

SWED 3020 students write article in Swedish magazine

July 13, 2016

The students in the SWED 3020 Advanced Swedish class had a unique opportunity to use their new language skills in the Spring of 2016. They were asked to write an article for the Swedish magazine Sverigekontakt. The article describes the Swedish Program at CU, which has grown to become one...

Lourie, Ben

Russian BA alum awarded Fulbright grant

July 13, 2016

http://www.colorado.edu/news/features/five-students-one-alternate-tapped-fulbright

Patrick Greaney

Congratulations to Patrick Greaney for his promotion to the rank of Full Professor!

June 21, 2016

We are happy to share the news that Professor Patrick Greaney has been promoted to the rank of Full Professor. Prof. Greaney is an outstanding teacher and a distinguished literary and cultural scholar. His research centers on modernist and postmodernist poetry and art of Europe, the US, and Latin America...

Evgeny Dobrenko

The F.I.R.S.T. Course on Russian Cinema in Augmester, 2016.

June 21, 2016

Thanks to the support of the F.I.R.S.T. (Faculty in Residence Summer Teaching) Program, this Augmester (August 1-18, 2016), GSLL will be hosting Professor Evgeny Dobrenko of the University of Sheffield. Prof. Dobrenko will teach a course “History of Russian Cinema”, cross-listed with film studies (M-F, 9-12). Prof. Dobrenko is one...

Ann Schmiesing

Ann Schmiesing named interim dean of Graduate School

June 3, 2016

http://www.colorado.edu/news/features/schmiesing-named-interim-dean-grad...

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