Wondering what to read in 2023? A&S faculty offer ideas
A&S faculty offer book and poetry recommendations for the new year.
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“Tales That Touch”: Leslie Adelson’s Work Honored With Essay Collection and A Roundtable
Congratulations to our colleague, Leslie A. Adelson, Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of German Studies, whose work was honored at the recent German Studies Association 46th Annual Conference with a roundtable!
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Meet German Studies Alums!
Connect with alums (who will visit via Zoom) and talk about their career choices and what role their studies in German Studies have played in the process!
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Community read launches Society for the Humanities’ ‘Repair’ theme
"The Society for the Humanities thought there is no better way to kick off the year of Repair, than to begin at home."
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'I’m amazed at how much I developed as a writer'
Lauren Bohm is a History and German Studies major.
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'I participated in a summer research program with anthropologists from Brazil'
Ariana Croese is majoring in Italian & German Studies.
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Hannah Miller (Ph.D. '17) explores the "States of Fandom" in New Book
Congratulations to Dr. Hannah Miller (Ph.D. in German Studies, 2017) on the recent publication of her first book, The Politics of Fandom. Conflicts That Divide Communities (McFarland, 2022).
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More than $12M donated to support students in 24 hours
On Cornell’s eighth Giving Day, held March 16, 15,905 alumni, students, faculty, staff, parents and friends from more than 80 countries made gifts totaling a record-breaking $12,268,629.
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Support Arts & Sciences on Giving Day March 16
Gifts allow the College to fulfill its mission: preparing students to do the greatest good in the world.
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Alumni gift to A&S supports doctoral students in the humanities
A $5 million alumni gift will help to support doctoral students in humanities fields within the College of Arts & Sciences.
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Rural humanities projects explore NYS past and present
Five essays that explore how students created publicly-engaged projects are available online.
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Nexus Scholars Program applications now open
The program connects undergraduates in A&S with opportunities to work side by side on research with Cornell faculty from across the College.
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Apply to Our PhD Program
Apply to our PhD program. Accepting Applications Submitted by January 2, 2023
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Patrizia McBride recognized with article prize
Professor Patrizia McBride won the 2021 Max Kade prize for best article in The German Quarterly.
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New A&S program expands undergrad research opportunities
The Nexus Scholars program will leverage the student-to-faculty ratio and the vibrant research enterprise in A&S to expand opportunities for students, while also enhancing the culture of collaborative scholarship at Cornell.
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Applications now open for Klarman postdoc fellowships in A&S
Applications are now being accepted for the third cohort of the Klarman Postdoctoral Fellowships program in the College of Arts and Sciences. The deadline for submission is Oct. 15.
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Congratulations from the Department of German Studies!
Congratulations from the Department of German StudiesCongratulations to Dr. Matthias Müller, graduating Ph.D. in German Studies! The Department of German Studies warmly congratulates Matthias Müller who defended his dissertation The Loser's Edge: Writing from the Vantage Point of the Vanquished, 1918-1945 during the past academic year and...
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'I feel prepared to learn how to tackle any new challenges'
Skyeler McQueen is a German studies and mathematics major.
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Alumnus shares public health messages through comic illustrations
What began as a class project exploring a fraught period of Ithaca history has transformed into a COVID-related comic that Leo Levy ’20, hopes can reach people with a lesson from the past and an accessible message about public health.
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Jacqueline Tackett selected as a 2021 National Humanities without Walls Pre-Doctoral Career Diversity Workshop Fellow
Jacqueline Tackett, a graduate student in German Studies has received a 2021 National Humanities without Walls Pre-Doctoral Career Diversity Workshop Fellowship (link) after having been selected as Cornell’s candidate for the national Humanities Without Walls competition in a nomination process conducted through the Society for the Humanities (...
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Student Spotlight: David Dunham
After earning an undergraduate degree from New York University, David Dunham, doctoral student in Germanic studies from Springfield, Virginia, chose to pursue further study at Cornell due to the strength of the Germanic studies field and the university’s location in Ithaca.
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Leslie Adelson, Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of German Studies, awarded "Prize of the Association for Intercultural German Studies"
Germany’s Association for Intercultural German Studies (Gesellschaft für interkulturelle Germanistik e.V.) announced in December 2020 that Professor Leslie A. Adelson of Cornell University has been awarded the Prize of the Association for Intercultural German Studies for Experienced Scholars 2019. She is one of two senior scholars to be selected...
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From vaults to virtual classes, library archives enrich teaching
Through two semesters of remote learning, Cornell's archivists, curators and librarians are finding virtual ways to help instructors teach research, using gems from Cornell University Library’s rare and distinctive (RAD) collections.
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Signale celebrates decade of success and welcomes new leadership
Signale celebrates decade of success and welcomes new leadership
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Cornell faculty featured on ‘The Academic Minute’
The program, airing on 70 stations, covers new and emerging topics in higher education.
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Franz Peter Hugdahl Memorial Awards in German Studies
Franz Peter Hugdahl (1968-2013) was a valued member of the German Studies community at Cornell University, with primary interests in 20th-century German literature, radio, film, and intellectual history, who cared deeply about his fellow students at all levels and about educational opportunities to study German language, literature, culture, and...
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Hannah Miller, Ph.D. ’17, returns to Cornell as Managing Editor of diacritics
Dr. Hannah Miller, who received her Ph.D. in German Studies at Cornell University in 2017, has recently accepted the position of Managing Editor of the renowned theory journal diacritics here at Cornell. After finishing her dissertation, Dr. Miller taught at Hunter College, NYU, and Drew University in New York City and then held a position as...
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Ari Linden, Ph.D. ’13, Promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure at University of Kansas; Published First Book in May
Ari Linden, who received his Ph.D. in German Studies at Cornell in 2013, has recently been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure at the University of Kansas, where he has been teaching in the German Department since his degree, first as Visiting Assistant Professor and then as Assistant Professor.His first book, Karl Kraus and the...
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Carl Gelderloos, Ph.D. ’14, Promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure; First Book receives Honorable Mention for DAAD/GSA Book Prize
Carl Gelderloos, who received his Ph.D. in German Studies at Cornell in 2014 and started teaching the same year as Assistant Professor in the Department of German and Russian Studies at Binghamton University (SUNY), was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure this last September.His first book Biological Modernism: The New Human in Weimar...
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30 Arts & Sciences faculty honored with endowed professorships
The College is able to bestow these honors to outstanding faculty thanks to generous gifts from alumni, parents and friends.
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Applications open for Klarman fellowships
The three-year fellowships are available to early-career scholars conducting leading-edge research in any of the College’s discipline areas.
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Festschrift in honor of Art Groos, Avalon Foundation Professor in Humanities Emeritus, published by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
The volume explores the theme of ambiguity in medieval and early modern literature in essays honoring the life and work of Arthur Groos, Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities at Cornell University, USA, emeritus. The famous expression diz vliegende bîspel from Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Parzival is its watchword. In the poem the black and...
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Rural Humanities initiative to focus on Black lives
The “Rural Black Lives” theme for 2020-21 will concentrate on the visibility of Black lives in rural central and western New York state.
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Professor Emeritus David Bathrick: In Memoriam
In MemoriamDavid Bathrick Memorial Statement, Dean of Faculty Office Memorial Booklet 2020
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Congratulations from the Department of German Studies
Congratulations from the Department of German Studies Dear Graduating PhDs in German Studies,The entire Department of German Studies warmly congratulates Jette Gindner and Stephen Klemm, both of whom submitted their dissertations during the past academic year and completed their PhD degrees in German Studies! Dr. Gindner’s scholarship is...
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Recent grads start program to help high schoolers explore the humanities
"It’s a perfect time to start this because college grads have been left with canceled jobs and high school students are trying to figure out what to do when school is out.”
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Goethe Prize 2020
Goethe Essay PrizeEndowed in 1935 by Ludwig Vogelstein, is awarded annually for the best essayon any topic in German literature or culture. Originally it was awarded for essays on Goethe—no surprise there!—and was only open to graduate studentsand seniors. We thought that more of you deserved recognition for your effectsand so we have...
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Graduate student J.J. Aupiais receives Max Kade Research Grant
J.J. Aupiais has received a Max Kade Research Grant from the American Friends of Marbach, available through Summer 2021, to conduct dissertation-related research at the Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach. J.J.’s comparative dissertation in progress addresses the contested status of “race and nation” in colonial-era writing relevant to the German...
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German Studies professor awarded CIVIC fellowship to explore “Critical Media Practice”
Erik Born has been awarded a two-year research fellowship to participate in a group of Cornell scholars working on “Critical Media Practice.” As part of the Provost's Initiative for Critical Inquiry into Values, Imagination and Culture (CIVIC), the multi-disciplinary group will explore how critical media practice can advance, diversify, and...
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Yuqing (Eva) Cao: 'Mingle with people from all backgrounds'
<h3> Yuqing (Eva) Cao<br /> Comparative Literature & German Studies<br /> Beijing, China</h3><p> <strong>What are the most valuable skills you gained from your Arts & Sciences education?</strong></p>
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Professor Emeritus David Bathrick dies in Germany at 84
<p> Beloved emeritus professor and scholar David Bathrick, who taught theater arts, German studies and Jewish studies at Cornell for 20 years, died April 30 at his home in Bremen, Germany. He was 84.</p><p> Bathrick taught and inspired countless students and colleagues over a <a href="https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2007/11/professor-david-bathrick-aka-diablo-retires-germany">colorful and successful career in his chosen fields</a>.</p>
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Conference: Representations of Race and Ethnicity in German Modernity
Cornell Department of German Studies Graduate Student ConferenceThis conference brings together scholars from numerous disciplines with an interest in critical studies of the concept of race as it has contributed to understandings of the modern subject in the German canon and beyond, tracing its appearance in the works of natural scientists,...
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Support Arts & Sciences students on Giving Day March 12
<p>The College of Arts & Sciences is gearing up for Giving Day on Thursday, March 12 and we hope you'll join in the fun!</p><p>Your gifts to our annual fund, undergraduate scholarship fund or any of our departments and programs help our faculty and students reach their full potential.</p>
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Kraemer receives language education award
<p><a href="http://angelikakraemer.com">Angelika Kraemer,</a> Director of the<a href="http://lrc.cornell.edu"> Language Resource Center</a> at Cornell and an affiliated senior lecturer in the Department of <a href="https://german.cornell.edu">German Studies</a>, received the Michigan World Language Association’s (MIWLA) Barbara Ort-Smith Award Oct. 24 at MIWLA’s annual conference in Lansing, Michigan.</p>
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Media studies scholars visit campus for 'Siren Echoes' conference
<p>Scholars from Germany and the UK, as well as numerous U.S. universities, will visit campus Nov. 7-9 for the first media studies conference sponsored by <a href="https://as.cornell.edu/news/humanities-proposal-springs-radical-collaboration-effort">CIVIC</a> (Critical Inquiry into Values, Imagination and Culture), the provost’s <a href="http://provost.cornell.edu/academic-initiatives/radical-collaboration/">Radical Collaboration</a> initiative focused on the humanities and the arts.</p>
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Lecture by Peter Filkins, Richard B. Fisher Professor of Literature at Bard College
Lecture by Peter Filkins, Richard B. Fisher Professor of Literature at Bard College"Writing History, Writing Biography: Capturing H.G. Adler's Many Worlds." Nov. 5, 5pm, Klarman Hall, Room KG42. Co-sponsored by the Department of German Studies, the Jewish Studies Program, and the Institute for German Cultural Studies. Free and open to the...
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$6M alumni gift launches Humanities Scholars Program
For the first time, undergraduates can be immersed in the work of Cornell’s Society for the Humanities.
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First Rural Humanities showcase spotlights Cornell-community projects
The Rural Humanities Initiative offers seminars for students and supports faculty outreach in generating new scholarship.
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Thomas Elsaesser at Cornell
Thomas Elsaesser, Professor Emeritus at theUniversity of Amsterdam and Visiting Professorat Columbia University since 2013, is theauthor of Film History as Media Archaeology:Tracking Digital Cinema (2017) and EuropeanCinema and Continental Philosophy: Film asThought Experiment (2019).
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