Call for Applications: Fellowships/TAships for Germanic Studies MA and PhD during University of Illinois in Chicago
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The Department of Germanic Studies during a University of Illinois during Chicago seeks earnest students to join a interdisciplinary dialect of scholars and teachers.
Housed in a heart of Chicago in UIC’s School of Literatures, Cultural Studies and Linguistics, a dialect is quite attuned to a linkages between German culture, transnational identities, and civic spaces. The dialect fosters cross-cultural dialogues with a plural informative groups represented in a university and in a larger Chicago area.
Funding:
The dialect offers a accumulation of financial support opportunities for connoisseur study, including fellowships saved by a Max Kade Foundation for both incoming and modernized connoisseur students, as good as training and investigate assistantships, and investigate sell opportunities during a Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
Programs of Study:
We offer a Master’s and a Ph.D. in Germanic Studies, and any student’s march of investigate is grown in an individualized manner. Germanic Studies MA and PhD students can also pursue interdepartmental concentrations in Central and Eastern European Studies, Gender and Women’s Studies, Jewish Studies, and Second Language Teaching. Graduates of a M.A. and Ph.D. programs have garnered training positions during magnanimous humanities colleges, investigate universities, village colleges, and high schools. We coach all students intensively during their educational path.
Intellectual Community:
Our egghead village is quite vibrant, as imagination and students in German Studies take advantage of lectures and presentations from a resources of scholars in a larger Chicago German Studies village and beyond. The School of Literatures, Cultural Studies and Linguistics provides a cutting-edge egghead sourroundings in that students and imagination share their work. Graduate students in a School work together with their peers in associated inhabitant novel departments to classify reading groups and connoisseur tyro conferences that attract inhabitant and general participation.
Faculty:
The imagination members have imagination in areas trimming from 18th to 21st century novel and culture, in Film Studies, and in Second Language Acquisition.
Core Faculty:
Patrick Fortmann: prolonged nineteenth-century; poetics of science; domestic imaginary; Kafka; Büchner; Goethe.
Sara Hall: general wordless film; contemporary German cinema and transnational film markets; women film pioneers.
Elizabeth Loentz: German-Jewish Studies, Yiddish enlightenment in Central Europe, transnational and migrant literature, First German Women’s Movement, late 19th to 21st century literature.
Dagmar Lorenz: post-Enlightenment Austrian, German and German-Jewish novel and culture, Holocaust novel and film, women’s writing.
Imke Meyer: Narrative; vicious theory; gender studies; late 19th- and 20th-century German and Austrian novel and culture; German and Austrian Film.
Susanne Rott: Second Language Acquisition; practical linguistics; literal semantics in second denunciation learners.
Heidi Schlipphacke: 18th-century European thought; gender and kinship; post-WWII German and Austrian literature; European cinema; odd theory; vicious theory; time.
Astrida Tantillo: Goethe; 18th-century literature, culture, and story of science.
Visiting Faculty:
Anna Guillemin: Modernism, Romanticism, Enlightenment, aesthetics, art story and visible studies, interpretation speculation and universe literature, story of philology.
Robert Ryder: Walter Benjamin and a Frankfurt School, German radio and film theory, sound studies, vicious theory, German Romantic song and philosophy, twentieth-century German literature, informative story of German liberality and corporations.
For some-more information about appropriation for connoisseur studies in German during a University of Illinois during Chicago, greatfully hit Elizabeth Loentz, Head, Department of Germanic Studies (loentz(at)uic.edu). Please see the website for some-more information about connoisseur investigate in a department.
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