Welcome to the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies

News

German Studies courses funded as part of the Provost E-learning Initiative

Intensive Intermediate German in Mannheim - There is still an open spot in this program!

Online Initiatives in Beginning German

Barbara Mennel wins 2007-2008 CLAS Teaching Award

Franz Futterknecht named an "International Educator of the Year"

About the Department

German Studies:
The Undergraduate and Graduate Programs in German Studies provide students with a rigorous training in the German language, and with a solid and broad knowledge of German literary and cultural history.
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Russian Studies:
The Russian Studies Program is committed to providing its students with a thorough, well-balanced and practical proficiency in contemporary spoken and written Russian while explicating the rich and diverse literary and cultural traditions that make Russia such a fascinating and complex nation today.
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Polish and Czech Studies:
Polish and Czech Studies have established themselves not only as nationally competitive programs, but as cutting edge ones.
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Recent Books

Barbara Mennel looks at the links between urbanism and film in Cities and Cinema

Galya Rylkova examines the Russian "Silver Age" in The Archaeology of Anxiety

Barbara Mennel looks at the history of Masochism and Queer Desire in Film and Literature

Eric Kligerman reviews Paul Celan's impact on visual culture in Sites of the Uncanny.

Galili Shahar explores the avant garde and Jewish culture in
theatrum judaicum

Nora Alter
presents the first English study of reclusive director Chris Marker

Alexander Burak presents Translating Culture: Translation and Cross-Cultural Communication