Claudia Baska Lynn and Sibel Sayılı-Hurley were both awarded the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowships in the Digital Humanities for the 2018-2019 academic year. Claudia and Sibel are co-authoring Bewegungen, an intermediate textbook, which is currently used in German 104 and 107.
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Margaret Strair wins SAS Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
April 6, 2018This award is presented to graduate students for their demonstrated excellence in and dedication to teaching. It recognizes their contribution to undergraduate teachding that is intellectually rigorous, exceptionally coherent, and that has considerable impact upon students.
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Florian Breitkopf wins Digital Humanities Fellowship
April 5, 2018Florian Breitkopf was awarded a 'Price Lab Andrew W. Mellon Doctoral Fellowship in the Digital Humanities' for the 2018-2019 academic year.
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Ian Fleishman Publishes An Aesthetics of Injury
March 15, 2018Professor Ian Fleishman's first book, An Aesthetics of Injury
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Ian Fleishman on Filmmaker Louis Malle
January 20, 2018Professor Ian Fleishman has a chapter forthcoming in a volume on The Cinema of Louis Malle (Wallflower, 2018).
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Liliane Weissberg Joins the Board of the Deutsches Historisches Museum Berlin
January 11, 2018Liliane Weissberg has been elected to the Academic Advisory Board of the Deutsches Historisches Museum (DHM).
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A Celebration of Horst Daemmrich, Professor Emeritus
December 14, 2017Many generations of Penn Germanics faculty, alumni and current students gathered to celebrate our colleague and friend, Horst Daemmrich, Professor Emeritus, and to launch his new book, Vergangenheit, on the role of the past in contemporary German literature.
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Dr. Christina Frei receives the Outstanding Educator's Award!
December 4, 2017On Saturday, November 18th, Dr. Christina Frei was honored by the American Association for the Teachers of German (AATG) with the Outstanding Educator's Award at the 2017 ACTFL Convention in Nashville, Tennessee.
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Alexander Botwinik on the Yiddish Voice
November 16, 2017On November 8, 2017, Alexander Botwinik, Yiddish instructor at the University of Pennsylvania, was featured on "The Yiddish Voice" (Dos Yidishe Kol), Boston's weekly Yiddish-language radio show.
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Courses and Majors Fair
October 27, 2017As always, our lecturers Sibel, Claudia, David, and our work study students Sam Sanders and Patrick Teese were present at the Courses and Majors Fair with a table full of course flyers representing the exciting variety of courses in our department.