As the oldest academic program in German Studies in North America, the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at Penn combines a commitment to the traditions of literary studies in German with a forward-looking approach to new developments in the field. Our faculty offer a range of undergraduate and graduate courses spanning German literary history but also at the forefront of theoretical explorations in areas such as cultural studies, critical theory, material culture, history of the book, German-Jewish studies, gender studies, the history of sexuality and the body, film studies, and inter-art studies.
In addition to a comprehensive program of German language instruction, including a curriculum in Business German, a distinctive feature of our department is our offerings in Yiddish, Dutch, and Swedish.
News
- 2009 German Film Series
Deutsches Haus Modern Language Program
Gregory College House-Large Screen TV Lounge
- The Industrious Bee:
Francis Daniel Pastorius, His Manuscripts, and His World
October 23 - 24, 2009
A conference co-sponsored by
The McNeil Center for Early American Studies and
The University of Pennsylvania Libraries
- The Decline of the West?
The Fate of the Atlantic Community After the Cold War
October 15 - 17, 2009
Philadelphia
An international conference at the University of Pennsylvania, in cooperation with the German Historical Institute, Washington, DC, and the Heidelberg Center for American Studies.
- New Partnership with the Deutsches Literaturarchiv
in Marbach allows Penn graduate students to take three-week summer workshop.
- PennSchrift
the brand new Department newsletter
- Sommer in Berlin
Ask us about our study abroad opportunities at the
Freie Universitaet Berlin
contact: Christina Frei, cefrei@sas.upenn.edu, 215.898.7035
