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...

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...

Ann Schmiesing

Ann Schmiesing named interim dean of Graduate School

June 3, 2016

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

varsity pond

3rd Boulder Summer Colloquium in German Studies

May 9, 2016

For the 3rd consecutive year, the University of Colorado is hosting the Boulder Summer Graduate Student Colloquium in German Studies from May 12-14, 2016. The Colloquium is organized in collaboration with Cornell University, Johns Hopkins University, and, as a special guest institution this year, the University of Chicago. The center...

Ann Schmiesing

Ann Schmiesing receives the Boulder Faculty Assembly’s 2016 Award of Excellence in Leadership and Service

April 29, 2016

Warm congratulations to Professor of German Studies Ann Schmiesing, the 2016 recipient of the BFA Excellence in Leadership and Service Award. Prof. Schmiesing is a true pillar of our department as well as the one of those professors who carries with talent and inspiration most difficult and time-consuming service responsibilities...

Ross Etherton and Adi Nester

German PhDs Adi Nester and Ross Etherton awarded CHA 2nd Leg Summer Fellowships

April 13, 2016

Etherton's project focuses on expanding his expertise in media archaeology. Working with CU-Boulder's acclaimed Media Archaeology Lab and its founder, CU-Boulder Professor Lori Emerson, he will write a media-archaeological account of germanium- and silicon-based fuzz pedals, exploring their material, aesthetic, and ideological bases and effects. The practical component of his...

Nicholas Zyzda

German Major Nicholas Zyzda receives a Summer Fellowship from UROP

April 12, 2016

German Major Nicholas Zyzda was awarded a Summer Fellowship from the Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP). Nick receives the scholarship for a research project investigating the literary representation of madness in Georg Büchner’s 1836 novella Lenz . Drawing on psychological, medical, and literary discourses, Nick’s research approaches the systematic problem...

German career day

German Career Day

March 21, 2016

GSLL held its annual German career event on March 14 at the UMC Aspen Rooms. The event provided undergraduate students enrolled in German classes with an insight into some of the different career paths and opportunities available to them – both in Colorado and beyond - and a chance to...

German Immersion Day

CU German Language Immersion Day

Feb. 17, 2016

High schools students from the Boulder Valley and Fort Collins school districts explored the CU campus on February 10, 2016 as part of the German Language Immersion Day. High school students participated in sessions on German film and Austrian art. They also tested their knowledge on German geography, economy, music,...

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