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Adjunct Lecturer Ioana Wicker’s painting, “They Say It’s Spring: Your Multilingual Mind is Powerful,” was published in the spring 2024 issue of The Language Educator. In the fall, she will begin studying Applied Linguistics at Teachers College Columbia. Congratulations, Ioana!
Congratulations to our German majors who are starting new internships in Manhattan: Maya Savoie at the German American Chamber of Commerce, and Andria Veltri at the Goethe Institut.
Adjunct Lecturer Ioana Wicker presented at the NWAV51 (New Ways of Analyzing Variation in Language) conference, hosted by Queens College and the Research Institute for the Study of Language in Urban Society, in October 2023. She is working on a research project focussed on “Social identity and self-perception in the language classroom.”
Congratulations to our very own Anne-Katrin Titze on her recent interview with award-winning German director/screenwriter Christian Petzold! Anne-Katrin sat down with Petzold to discuss his latest film, Afire (Roter Himmel), a New York Times Critic’s Pick: “I read a sentence by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe that all stories start with something like an accident for example, or someone is not coming home at the right time.” You can read more about the interview.
Anne-Katrin Titze (left) and Christian Petzold (right)
Congratulations to Jacob Forbes, who joins past winner Meaghan McClure as a recipient of the Collegiate Scholarship given by the German American Committee of Greater New York.
Congratulations to our very own Anne-Katrin Titze on her recent interview with folklore and mythology expert Maria Tatar. You can read more about Tatar’s work, and her 2018 visit to the Hunter German Department.
Maria Tatar (left) and Anne-Katrin Titze (right)
We’re so proud that two of our recent alumnae have been awarded the prestigious DAAD scholarship for their masters study in German: Seung Hee Kim for Transcultural Studies in Heidelberg, and Meaghan McClure for European Studies in Regensburg.
Afsana Rahman, Agnes Li, Kieran Weaver, Risa Chen and Yulia Severynenko are the winners of our inaugural German Fairy Tales photo contest. Check out their winnining photos. We thank the Presidential Initiatives for Student Engagement for supporting the contest.
Congratulations to German students Cindy Nunez del Arco and Amilcar Dasilva on their acceptance to the McNair Scholars Program! The program is designed to provide select college students with research, scholarly activities and effective preparation for doctoral study. In the case of Amilcar, this has already translated into an acceptance to the 2021 Summer Undergraduate Minority Research Program (SUMR) at the University of Pennsylvania. Visit and read about the McNair Scholars Program.