The German department caps the fall semester with a visit by professor Priscilla Layne from UNC—Chapel Hill. The daughter of Caribbean immigrants, Layne talks about her childhood in Chicago and her unusual path to academia.
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The career trajectories of two Bowdoin German graduates collide as one achieves the rare honor of having a paper based on her senior honors thesis published in an academic journal where the other was a managing editor.
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The George Taylor Files Professor of Modern Languages wins an academic award for her 2017 book, Translating the World, which “invites a reconsideration of German literary history.”
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Language is not a fixed construct. It lives and breathes and evolves with the people who speak it, with cultural practices, and the passage of time.
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The German Department recently received a grant from Germany to bolster US-German relations.
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Professor Fritz Koelln, an intellectual whirlwind and deeply kind soul, imparted more than a life’s worth of lessons to his student and friend Neill Reilly ’71.
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From the galleries to the lecture theaters, concert halls and classrooms, Bowdoin celebrates the work and the influence of the pioneering German art and design school on its centennial.
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Faculty members lead students in a discussion about three significant dates in twentieth century Germany.
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“In the real world, there are rarely clearly defined winners and losers.” Professor of German Andrew Hamilton talks about the history of dueling in literature, and why it’s often a lot more complicated than we think.
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Assistant Professor of German Jens Elias Klenner praised Schlink’s introspective novel’s ability to “ask us to read again, more than once slowly,” and “to serve as a looking glass into a troubled times.”
Read moreFrom the first course they take in our department, students acquire critical, cultural, and linguistic knowledge that gives them skills applicable beyond Bowdoin and in their future careers.