Gerhard Richter
Wiesental (1985)
© Gerhard Richter, courtesy of the artist
Recent and forthcoming contributions of all department members to the field of Germanic Studies.
Bastian Reinert. Talk: "Speechgrilles of the Shoah. Celan Between Translating and Being Translated." Conference: Translating Holocaust Literature. Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
Arata Takeda. Talk: “Aristotle on Mimesis and Violence: Hidden Things since the Foundation of Literary Theory.” Conference: Politics, Violence and the Sacred. University of Central Lancashire, Preston, United Kingdom.
Peter Erickson. Talk: "Wieland's 'Geheime Geschichte der Danae': Contrasting Models of the Self." Conference: American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Cleveland, Ohio.
Anthony Mahler has been awarded a Stuart Tave/Whiting Teaching Fellowship for 2013-2014.
Eric L. Santner has been named the Philip and Ida Romberg Distinguished Service Professor in Germanic Studies and the College, August 2012.