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Maria Tatar has spent her career tracing evolution of folk, fairy tales, explaining why they still matter.
Maria Tatar, John L. Loeb Research Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures and of Folklore and Mythology, Emerita, was featured by the Harvard News Office, in the September 25 Gazette. Read the profile here .
Congratulations to Rachael Petersen
Congratulations to Rachael Petersen, co-editor of a new volume, Thinking with Plants and Fungi: Interdisciplinary Explorations of Ecology, Mind, and the More-than-Human World (Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard University Press, 2026). The...
German 118 presents Die Dreigroschenoper in Cabot House Theater
Senior Lecturer Dr. Lisa Parkes’ German 118 (German Drama and Theater) presented two performances of Die Dreigroschenoper on April 24 and 25, in the Cabot House Theater. In the first half of the course, students study a short selection of German plays...
Simone Stirner Receives Jordan Schnitzer First Book Publication Award
Assistant Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures Simone Stirner has been awarded a 2025 Jordan Schnitzer First Book Publication Award, administered by the Association for Jewish Studies for her book Poetic Grief: Form and Remembrance after...
Pascal LaFountain, Harvard PhD 2011, has been awarded a national Outstanding German Educator award
The American Association of Teachers of German (AATG) has awarded their highest honor to Pascale LaFountain, PhD 2011. Pascale has won the Outstanding German Educator Award in the college/university category, in recognition of her "demonstrated excellence...
Professor Hamilton's New Book on Reception Studies
We are delighted to announce the publication of Director of Graduate Studies, Professor John T. Hamilton's new book, Without Within: Parenthetic Interferences in Reception History.
Welcome, Professor Stirner!
We are delighted to announce that Simone Stirner, Ph.D. Berkeley, has just joined the German Department, coming from Vanderbilt University via a Research Fellowship in Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. She is a scholar and teacher of...
PhD Alum wins Excellence in Teaching award at Montclair State University
Pascale LaFountain, PhD 2011, has been honored by Montclair State University for her excellence in teaching. Read more here: https://www.montclair.edu/university-communications/2025/05/09/red-hawk…
German Concentrator hired for Summer 2025 job in Germany!
GLL concentrator Margot Cerbone has got a job teaching English at the Sommerschule Wust , a Summer School for English, Literature, Theater, Art, and Music in Germany for summer 2025! Congratulations, Margot!
German Literature featured in the Crimson
Read what The Harvard Crimson says about reading like a German concentrator.
Peter Horowitz '24 wins a place in IPP
Peter Horowitz (German AM/AB, 2024) has won a place in the INTERNATIONAL PARLIAMENTARY INTERNSHIP PROGRAM (IPP). The German Bundestag, in cooperation with Berlin's universities, offers a unique opportunity to complete an internship lasting several months...
