Grad School Spotlight on Hintze
December 8, 2018
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,…
Merrill to Serve Two More Years as Department Chair
May 21, 2018
Professor Jason Merrill will continue to serve as Chair of the Department of Linguistics and Germanic, Slavic, Asian, and African Languages for an additional two years, or until August 15,…
Global Perspectives Symposium to Focus on Arabic Language and Culture
October 27, 2017
The public is invited to "Blurring Boundaries: Arabic Identities Across the Mediterranean and Beyond," a global perspectives symposium at Michigan State University scheduled for November 1-3. This is the first…
Researcher Awarded Grant to Investigate Dialects in Children
June 5, 2017
Associate Professor Cristina Schmitt is leading the way in one area of linguistics research and recently was awarded a three-year $200,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to advance…
RCPD Spirit of Ability Awards Presented to CAL Faculty Members
April 21, 2017
Two CAL faculty members recently were awarded Spirit of Ability Awards by MSU’s Resource Center for Persons with Disabilities (RCPD). The awards recognize contemporary leaders who continue the MSU tradition…
World Languages Day Celebrates 10th Year
March 13, 2017
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…
Critically Acclaimed Film Challenges Women Stereotypes
February 23, 2017
As part of her dissertation, Anne von Petersdorff, a fourth year doctoral student studying German Studies and Digital Humanities, spent two and a half months traveling with a friend from…
Faculty Appointed Co-Editors of Die Unterrichtspraxis/ Teaching German
December 19, 2016
Angelika Kraemer, Executive Associate Director of CeLTA Angelika Kraemer and Theresa Schenker have been appointed by the Executive Council to serve as co-editors of Die Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, starting with Volume 50, Issue…
Wolff’s book on Sebald’s Hybrid Poetics now in paperback
June 20, 2016
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…
2016 Linguistics and Languages Department Alumni Reunion
February 4, 2016
The MSU Department of Linguistics and Germanic, Slavic, Asian and African Languages in the College of Arts & Letters will host its 2016 Alumni Reunion, Saturday April 9. MSU Linguistics…