October 14-19: Events & Symposium Celebrate the 100-year anniversary of the founding of the Bauhaus in Weimar, Germany. The famous art school influenced a broad range of disciplines including art,…
Spotlight - Pia Banzhaf Before I even could read, a page in my children’s encyclopedia brimming with drawings of inventions for the exploration of the deep sea captured my imagination.…
Spotlight - Thomas Wilkins Although the majority of my classmates in my German courses were pursuing degrees in languages, the arts, or education, I was a minority earning a minor…
Spotlight - Theresa Schenker Ever since I can remember I wanted to become a teacher. It is no surprise perhaps - coming from a family of teachers - that my…
Spotlight: Johanna Schuster-Craig My name is very German. My American parents named me “Yo-hanna,” and have always used the European pronunciation. When I was a small child, I remember often…
Professor Matthew Handelman's monograph, The Mathematical Imagination: On the Origins and Promise of Critical Theory appeared in March 2019 with Fordham University Press. Book cover From the publisher: This book…
Spotlight - Jenny Gohlke Goethe's Faust, that is how it all started. Maybe. In fact, I do not remember when exactly I came to love German Literature so much. Books have…
Spotlight - Sarah Scarbrough : During my first few weeks here at MSU, after telling people my major, I got a lot of “oh… interesting,” in response. But as the weeks…
Spotlight - Christian Klein No one ever asked my friends, who intended to study medicine or engineering, for the reasons of their choices. But I was always asked why I…
Leonie Hintze is a graduate student in the College of Arts and Letters, studying German in a Master’s program. Leonie came to the United States 13 years ago from Germany,…