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Professor Karl S. Guthke Publishes New Book: "Geistiger Handelsverkehr: Streifzüge im Zeitalter der Weltliteratur" (Tübingen: Francke, 2015)

June 1, 2015

"Geistiger Handelsverkehr: Streifzüge im Zeitalter der Weltliteratur" (Tübingen: Francke, 2015)

Congratulations to This Year's Harvard Internships in Germany and Austria!

May 23, 2015

Thanks to the outstanding efforts of Ruth Sondermann, our Department’s Work-Abroad councilor, a number of Harvard Students have received exciting summer internships in Western Europe: John Gilheany (Duff and Phelps, Frankfurt), Achim Harzheim (ECON Renewable Energy Consulting, Essen), Adela Kim (Landesmuseum für moderne Kunst, Photographie und Architektur, Berlin), Dominique Kim (Zentrum für Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe), Tim LaVelle (Technische...

Original Puppet Show Produced for Beginner Learners of German

January 21, 2015

Produced by Mark Römisch, David Pister, and Gernot Waldner for Beginning German classes, "The Crocodile in Widener Library" is available on YouTube with English subtitles.

Racha Kirakosian Co-edits Special Issue of Oxford German Studies Journal

January 2, 2015

Eichenberger, N., Kirakosian, R., & Wareham, E. (Eds.). (2014). "The German Middle Ages in the Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries: Reception and Transformation" [Special issue]. ...

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Judith Ryan Publishes New Volume: "The Cambridge Introduction to German Poetry

October 11, 2014

The Cambridge Introduction to German Poetry

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Latest Book from John Hamilton - Security: Politics, Humanity, and the Philology of Care

October 4, 2014

Security: Politics, Humanity...

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Eric Rentschler Co-edits Special Issue of New German Critique

August 15, 2014

Bathrick, D., Huyssen, A., & Rentschler, E. (Eds.). (2014). "Miriam Hansen: Cinema, Experience, and the Public Sphere" [...

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Peter Gordon Edits New Collection with John McCormick - Weimar Thought: A Contested Legacy

February 25, 2014

Weimar Thought: A Contested Legacy (Princeton University Press, 2013)

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Eric Rentschler Has Co-edited a New Collection with Norbert Grob and Hans Helmut Prinzler: Neuer Deutscher Film (Stuttgart: Reclam, 2013)

February 25, 2014

Neuer Deutscher Film (Stilepochen des Films)

Stephen Mitchell Co-edits New Volume - Minni and Muninn: Memory in Medieval Nordic Culture (Acta Scandinavica 4, Brepols, 2014)

February 23, 2014

Co-Edited with Pernille Hermann and Agnes S. Arnórsdóttir, the volume presents articles that deal with the vocabulary, concepts, and functions of memory in medieval Norse texts (e.g., sagas, myths, skaldic poems, laws, runic inscriptions, historiographical writings), with reference to international memory studies.

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