Reinhard Kleist’s presentation The German Program-sponsored symposium “Drawing Lives, Writing Worlds”, on April 14-15, 2017, explored how graphic narratives – from comics and graphic novels to animation and film –…
Michigan State University will host its 10th annual World Languages Day on Saturday, March 25, bringing more than 600 participants, presenters, and volunteers to campus for a conference on world…
Sonja Fritzsche, Professor of German and Chair of MSU’s Department of Linguistics and Germanic, Slavic, Asian and African Languages, has been appointed Associate Dean for Faculty and Administration for the…
Professor Johanna Schuster-Craig was invited to speak at the Global Education Forum at American University in 2016. You can watch Professor Schuter-Craig's talk on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLurrWC12ak&t=1832s&ab_channel=AUcollege https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLurrWC12ak&t=1832s&ab_channel=AUcollege Read more about…
Contemporary German Literature: Live! Ulrich Peltzer and Kerstin Hensel In fall 2016, the German Program hosted two contemporary German authors: Ulrich Peltzer and Kerstin Hensel. Several events, linked to undergraduate…
Professor Lynn Wolff's monograph, W.G. Sebald’s Hybrid Poetics: Literature as Historiography, has been released in paperback (2016). Originally published in 2014, Sebald's Hybrid Poetics appeared in the series Interdisciplinary German…
During the Fall semester 2015 the German Program in the Department of Linguistics and Languages will offer a semester-long series of events on the legacy of unification. These events, which…
Professor Karin Wurst has published the book Das Schlaraffenland verwildeter Ideen. Narrative Strategien in J.M.R. Lenz' Erzählwerk with Königshausen Neumann. It explores Lenz's contributions to modern narrative theory. From the…
Professor Peters It is with great sadness that we report the death of Professor George Peters on July 8, 2014 in Oregon. George was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer two years…