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New Position for Gernot Waldner

September 18, 2020

Warmest congratulations to Gernot Waldner (PhD, 2018) who has just received a six-year University Assistant position for Modern German Literature at the University of Vienna.

Daniel Carranza

Daniel Carranza Joins Department as Fellow, then Assistant Professor

September 2, 2020

This Fall, the Germanic Languages and Literatures Department welcomes Dr. Daniel Carranza as a Fellow in Germanic Languages and Literatures. Dr. Carranza, who received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, will join the department’s faculty in July 2022 as Assistant Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures.

Dr. Carranza’s scholarship encompasses eighteenth- to twentieth-century German literature; poetics and the history of the lyric; the German philosophical tradition from Kant to Heidegger; moments of cross-pollination between the history of science and the history...

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