German News

Leila Mukhida featured in 50th-anniversary issue of flagship German Studies journal

Choose Your Own Adventure explores new avenues for critical practice in film viewing

Professor Weiss-Sussex rescues 80-year-old masterpiece written by German Jewish novelist

Professor Godela Weiss-Sussex, Fellow in German at King’s College, has just published Die daheim blieben (Those Who Stayed at Home) by the German-Jewish author, Georg Hermann. The novel , which was left unfinished at the time of Hermann’s death in Auschwitz and brought to light in remarkable circumstances, concerns the...

Annual Schröder Lecture 2023

The Schröder Lecture 2023 was entitled, 'What is the Place of Prison in Democracies? A Conversation with Annelie Rambsbrock and Sarah Colvin'.

German student Alrik Daldrup wins award

Incoming PhD student Alrik Daldrup has won the German Quarterly Graduate Student Paper Award.

German Graduate Research Seminar - Michaelmas 2023

The Section is pleased to announce the schedule for the German Graduate Research Seminar, Michaelmas 2023. This year, we are delighted to host the following speakers: Alex Mentzel (Cambridge), Triangulating Virtual Scenographies in Franz Kafka’s Der Verschollene and Walter Benjamin’s Schauplatz Thursday, 26th of October, 5...

Cartography of the Political Novel in Europe (CAPONEU)

We are pleased to share that a research team from the Cambridge MMLL Faculty, together with academic colleagues and NGOs from Zagreb, Nicosia, Brighton, London, Poznan and Berlin, has begun work on the Horizon Europe/UKRI Innovate Horizon Europe Guarantee – funded project Cartography of the Political Novel in Europe (CAPONEU).

Dr. Doriane Zerka publishes 'Imagining Iberia in Medieval German Literature'

Warmest congratulations to Dr Doriane Zerka on the publication of her book, Imagining Iberia in Medieval German Literature .

PhD student Frederick Hauke publishes article

We are happy to share that while working on his PhD project on human dignity in German intellectual history, Frederick Hauke has written an article published in 'The Conversation.'

Dr. Joe Prestwich features in ZDF news item on Pride Month in the UK

Our very own Dr. Joe Prestwich has been featured on ZDF News. Watch him speak about Pride Month in the United Kingdom at the following link: https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/heute-in-europa/pride-month-in-grossbritannien-100.html

New Publication from Daniela Dora

Congratulations to Daniela Dora, whose new publication, co-edited with Katie Ritson, has just appeared in Oxford German Studies , ‘Ecology in German Literary Criticism – Recent Developments and Approaches’. It is available to read here: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/yogs20/51/3?nav=tocList