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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...
In MemoriamDavid Bathrick Memorial Statement, Dean of Faculty Office Memorial Booklet 2020
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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).
German Studies, the Humanities, and the University A Conference of the Institute for German Cultural Studies (IGCS)Friday, September 13 and Saturday, September 14, 2019A.D. White House, Cornell University (Ithaca, NY) Friday, September 13 9:00am—Welcome: Patrizia McBride (Director, IGCS, Cornell University) and Paul Fleming (Director,...
Matthias Müller has won the 2018 German Studies Association Graduate Student Essay prize for his paper “Rifts in Space-Time: Franz Carl Weiskopf in the Soviet Union.” This prestigious award is granted to the best unpublished, article-length manuscript written by a graduate student and was announced at the annual banquet of the GSA in Pittsburgh...
October 11-13, 2018A.D. White House (exceptions noted)International conference on new perspectives that multimedial artist and storyteller Alexander Kluge develops vis-à-vis creative arts and critical practice, and new perspectives on Kluge’s oeuvre that scholars with diverse specializations and innovative insights can make available to Kluge...
Professor Patrizia McBride won the 2021 Max Kade prize for best article in The German Quarterly.
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.
