Beth Kautz has decided to return to teaching German full time, and to serve as the second-year German coordinator in the German, Nordic, Slavic and Dutch (GNSD) department.
Raining cats and dogs, the green-eyed monster, as mad as a hatter. Anatoly Liberman, a linguist and professor of German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch, explains our everyday phrases.
James Parente turned an early love of learning into a long career in higher education. Now the retiring former dean reflects on what he’s learned along the way.
Irina Zaykovskay, a new Russian lecturer, encourages her students to delve into the “new, and challenging, and messy” aspects of learning a language from scratch.
Daniel Haataja spent the 1988-89 academic year in Iceland as a Val Björnson exchange student, which he credits with inspiring his interest in languages. He went on to earn his…
Assistant Professor Jamele Watkins strives to incorporate the perspective of minority groups in Germany in order to show students what the country is really like.
James Parente prepares for a retirement rich in research, keeping his ties with the Libraries. “The Libraries are the laboratories for people in the humanities,” he says.
The Department of German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch condemns the war of aggression that President Putin and the Russian government have launched in Ukraine.
Over the spring and summer of 2021, graduate student Olivia Branstetter worked with others at the Graduate School to create an new student group for first-generation graduate…
Professor Anatoly Liberman (German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch) recently published two books and was invited as a distinguished speaker at a conference in October.
