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Big names, Big ideas, and Big events are associated with German culture and thought
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This summer, 101 students in the College of Arts and Sciences will take part in groundbreaking research on campus with 61 faculty as part of the Nexus Scholars Program.
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Fabio Cabrera is a philosophy and German studies major.
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Sophia Openshaw is an environment & sustainability studies major.
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Congratulations to Arthur Groos, Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities Emeritus, on the recent publication of his book Madama Butterfly/Madamu Batafurai: Transpositions of a “Japanese Tragedy” (Cambridge University Press, 2023).
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The goal of this symposium is to provide students from across cohorts an opportunity to present their research, answer questions, and receive feedback on their work. It draws on the expertise of a variety of disciplines such as Romance studies, comparative literature, medieval studies, art history, visual and media studies, cultural studies, intellectual history and philosophy, gender studies, Jewish studies, and more.
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A&S faculty offer book and poetry recommendations for the new year.
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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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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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"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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Lauren Bohm is a History and German Studies major.
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Ariana Croese is majoring in Italian & German Studies.
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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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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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Gifts allow the College to fulfill its mission: preparing students to do the greatest good in the world.
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A $5 million alumni gift will help to support doctoral students in humanities fields within the College of Arts & Sciences.
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Five essays that explore how students created publicly-engaged projects are available online.
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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. Accepting Applications Submitted by January 2, 2023
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Professor Patrizia McBride won the 2021 Max Kade prize for best article in The German Quarterly.
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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 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 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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Skyeler McQueen is a German studies and mathematics major.
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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, 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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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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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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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
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The program, airing on 70 stations, covers new and emerging topics in higher education.
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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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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, 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, 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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The College is able to bestow these honors to outstanding faculty thanks to generous gifts from alumni, parents and friends.
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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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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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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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In MemoriamDavid Bathrick Memorial Statement, Dean of Faculty Office Memorial Booklet 2020
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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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"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 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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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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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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<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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<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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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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<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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