In Fall 2017, Isabella Cuan, a BIBB major and Art History minor, took Liliane Weissberg’s class on “Berlin: History, Politics, Culture.” Isabella wrote a superb term paper on Third Reich photographic journalism.

Liliane Weissberg is a 2019-20 recipient of the American Academy’s Berlin Prize. These awards are offered annually to a small group of American artists, writers, scholars, journalists, and politicians who will spend one semester at the Arnhold villa at the Wannsee where they will live and do rese

Dr. Sonia Gollance (Penn PhD '17) has accepted a multi-year Visiting Assistant Professor position in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the Ohio State University, where she will be revitalizing the Yiddish program.

On March 28 and 29, the Department of Germanic Langauges and Literatures hosted the Kittler and the Human(ities) conference centered on the theme of the shifting legacy of Friedrich Kittler's thought and German Media Theory today.

In 2013, Liliane Weissberg curated the exhibition “Juden. Geld. Eine Vorstellung” at the Jewish Museum in Frankfurt/M. The exhibit proved to be the most successful show in the Museum’s history, and was reviewed widely in newspapers, on radio, and television.

Liliane Weissberg has been named the Ellie and Herbert D. Katz Distinguished Fellow at Penn’s Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies

We are pleased to announce that Penn German grad student Didem Uca has accepted a Visiting Assistant Professor of German position at Colgate University for 2019-2021.

Penn German PhD Matt Handelman has published his first book, entitled The Mathematical Imagination: On the Origins and Promise of Critical Theory.

Penn Professor Ian Fleishman's essay, "The World Unspoken: Kleist, Kafka, McCarthy," appeared in the most recent volume of Comparative Literature Studies, published by the Pennsylvania State University Press.

Freya Zhou is a junior in the College majoring in German and cinema studies.