Didem Uca wrote a piece for Digital Feminist Collective (University of Alberta) titled "When Your Faves are Problematic: Interrupting Harmful Narratives as Feminist Practice."

We are excited to announce that Claudia Baska Lynn and Sibel Sayılı-Hurley were awarded The Sachs Program for Arts Innovation grant for their project “Language, Culture and Contemporary Art".

Otfried Höffe reviewed Andree’s Hahmann new translation of Hobbes’ De Cive (Reclam 2017) in the Frankfurter Rundschau published on April 17, 2018.

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.

This 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.

Florian Breitkopf was awarded a 'Price Lab Andrew W. Mellon Doctoral Fellowship in the Digital Humanities' for the 2018-2019 academic year.

Professor Ian Fleishman's first book, An Aesthetics of Injury

Professor Ian Fleishman has a chapter forthcoming in a volume on The Cinema of Louis Malle (Wallflower, 2018).

Liliane Weissberg has been elected to the Academic Advisory Board of the Deutsches Historisches Museum (DHM).

Many 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.