Prof. Anna Horakova Presents on Marginalized Voices in East Germany at the 2025 Women in German Conference (WiG) at UMass Amherst
At this year’s Women in German (WiG) Conference, held at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Prof. Horakova took part in a roundtable moderated by guest speaker, Katharina Warda, a sociologist, filmmaker, writer, and literary scholar. Warda’s work explores race, class, and memory in postwar and post-reunification Germany. The roundtable featured lively exchanges on decolonial and intersectional […]
Prof. Anke Finger delivers keynote lecture at Conference on German Expressionism in London (UK)
German Expressionism, a multi-art movement lasting from 1905 (Die Brücke) to well into the late 1920s, has experienced numerous centennial celebrations over the last two decades. This September, the first conference identifying connections between “Expressionism and Colonialism” and focusing primarily on literary Expressionism took place at the University of London (Goldsmiths), organized by Profs. Frank […]
First German Studies Colloquium presented by PhD Candidates Christina Meier and Elisabeth Scharnhorst on 9/30/25
Please join us for our first Fall 2025 German Studies Colloquium presentation on September 30th from 3:30-4:30pm in SHH 236 – all are welcome! If you wish to join online please follow this Zoom link. The German Studies Colloquium takes places 3 times per semester and showcases research conducted by graduate students, a German Studies […]
Prof. Sebastian Wogenstein publishes new book on Songs from the Vilna Ghetto
Prof. Wogenstein published a new book on songs from the Vilna ghetto in a bi-lingual edition (German and Yiddish) and presented the book together at an event that included the performance of songs (please see below). The book is described as follows on the publisher’s page: “In this new edition of Shmerke Kaczerginski’s collection of […]
Julian Cote-Dorado joins Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange (CBYX)
Julian Cote-Dorado, who majored in Political Science with German Studies and Economics minors, has been accepted into the Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange (CBYX) for Young Professionals for the 2025-26 academic year. Here’s an excerpt from the UConn Today story released on June 3rd, 2025: “I love to travel meeting people, and I am very interested in […]
German Studies Colloquium with Serafima Antonenko (PhD Candidate) on February 19th, 2025
Please join us on February 19th, 2025 in Susan Herbst Hall 236 for a presentation by PhD candidate Serafima Anontenko.
Undergraduate Awards in German Studies Spring 2024
April and May, once again, is award season, and we are thrilled to celebrate our German Studies students with the following awards issued by the Department of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages and by the Baden-Württemberg Exchange Program: Joseph A. Palermo Oustanding Senior Scholars: Alyssa Weber The Lederer Prize: Aditya Makarla Honor Roll for Phi Beta Kappa: […]
Prof. Anke Finger interviewed by the Financial Times about Mega Pop Concerts as Total Artworks
Live Music and the Rise of the ‘Enormodome’, an article written by Ludovic Hunter-Tilney and published February 10, 2024, in the Financial Times starts with a question: “With hologram second acts, high-tech sound and light shows and the mushrooming of mega arenas, pop performance is entering a whole new era. But does it still count […]
Guerlina Philogène (EUROBIZ) wins prestigious Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Graduate Fellowship
As she is about to graduate, Guerlina Philogène, freshly returned from her intership in Germany, receives the prestigious Thomas R. Pickering fellowship for graduate study: “The Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Graduate Fellowship Program is a program funded by the U.S. Department of State, administered by Howard University, that attracts and prepares outstanding young people […]
Prof. Anna Horakova joins German Studies Faculty
Dr. Anna Horakova joined us last semester as Assistant Professor in the German Studies section. Here is what she shared with us about her background and work: “I grew up in Czechoslovakia / the Czech Republic, and have lived and studied in several countries, including in the U.K., U.S., Germany, and France. While conducting research […]
Connecticut/Baden-Württemberg Human Rights Research Consortium receives second Grant to continue through 2026
Prof. Sebastian Wogenstein and Prof. Shareen Hertel (Political Science) won a second grant for the Connecticut/Baden-Württemberg Human Rights Research Consortium (HRRC). It is a major grant with funding for three years, from July 2023 to June 2026, amounting to over $500,000 combined from the Baden-Württemberg Ministry for Science, Research and Art and support from UConn’s Global […]
Prof. Anke Finger and Dr. Julie Shoults (PhD 2015) publish collection on Women in German Expressionism
While the scholarship of German Expressionism has marked German literary studies for most of the 20th and 21st centuries, the focus – remarkably – has stayed with male writers. This new collection, sparked by conversations started in a seminar, focuses on women authors and artists: This collection, for the first time, explores women’s self-conceptions and […]
PhD Candidate Isabell Sluka receives Summer Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
Isabell Sluka, a PhD candidate in German Studies, has been awarded the Summer Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship by the UConn Graduate School to pursue her research on “From a Postmigrant Society to Radical Diversity: (Re)Negotiating Germanness in the Digital Realm”: “I am humbled and grateful to have been chosen as a recipient of the Summer Doctoral […]
Joscha Jelitzki (PhD candidate) receives LCL Graduate Research Award
Joscha Jelitzki received this year’s Graduate Research Award from the Department of Literatures Cultures and Languages for his excellent work bridging German Studies and Hebrew and Judaic Studies: “I’m humbled to receive this year’s Excellence in Research Award by the LCL German Section. It signifies how much the section and the department value and support […]
uconngerman 