Bethany Wiggin, associate professor of Germanic languages and literatures and the founding director of the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities, is among the first recipients of a Whiting Public Engagement Fellowship from the Whiting Foundation.

Professor Christopher Wood gives the talk "The Crime of Passion," on Dürer's drawing "The Death of Orpheus," homosexuality in the Renaissance, and Aby Warburg's pathos formula.

The Northeast Modern Language Association has selected Ian Fleishman's first book manuscript, An Aesthetics of Injury: The Narrative Wound from Baudelaire to Tarantino, as the winner of their 2015 Book Prize.

In the "Women in Translation" issue of TranscUlturAl: A Journal of Translation and Cultural Studies, Penn German Ph.D. student Didem Uca interviews Dr. Kathryn Hellerstein, Penn Professor of Yiddish, on her career as a scholar-poet-translator.

The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives has granted her The Joseph and Eva R.

Catriona MacLeod's book, Fugitive Objects: Sculpture and Literature in the German Nineteenth Century, has won the 2014 Jean-Pierre Barricelli Prize for the year's best book in Romanticism.  

Catriona MacLeod has been appointed Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor of German.

The Penn Libraries’ historic collection of research material on German immigrants to Pennsylvania recently grew to include a set of nine German-language newspapers published in Philadelphia at the turn of the twentieth century.