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Gunhild Lischke

Language Program Director & Full Teaching Professor

Director of Undergraduate Studies

Peter J. Katzenstein

Walter S. Carpenter, Jr. Professor of International Studies

Keeley Boerman

Department Manager & Graduate Field Assistant

Arthur Groos

Avalon Foundation Professor in Humanities Emeritus

Peter Gilgen

Director of the Institute for German Cultural Studies & Associate Professor

Paul Fleming

L. Sanford and Jo Mills Reis Professor of Humanities

Superhero-like character holding cardboard sign "Twilight Ruined Comic-Con! — Provided

Hannah Miller (Ph.D. '17) explores the "States of Fandom" in New Book

Leslie A. Adelson

Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of German Studies Emerita

'I’m amazed at how much I developed as a writer'

Lauren Bohm is a History and German Studies major.

'I participated in a summer research program with anthropologists from Brazil'

Ariana Croese is majoring in Italian & German Studies.

'I feel prepared to learn how to tackle any new challenges'

comic showing ghost, McGraw Tower and COVID mask

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.

Graduate Student Handbook

Willow Groundwater-Schuldt

Graduate Student

Students study near the statue of Ezra Cornell on the Arts Quad in fall. Students gathered next to the Ezra Cornell statue.

Accepting Applications for GERST 2700 Introduction to German Culture and Thought (Fall 2026)

Accepting Applications!

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.

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.

Support Arts & Sciences students on Giving Day March 12

The College of Arts & Sciences is gearing up for Giving Day on Thursday, March 12 and we hope you'll join in the fun!

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.