Dr. Bowers Receives SSHRC Connection Grant for Dostoevsky’s Bicentenary
Dr. Katherine Bowers and Dr. Kate Holland (University of Toronto) have received a SSHRC Connection Grant to support the celebration of Dostoevsky’s bicentenary in 2021.
Dr. Bowers Publishes Essay in “We Are the Baby-Sitters Club”
The new volume includes a chapter by the Data-Sitters Club, a feminist digital humanities collective of which Dr. Katherine Bowers is a member.
Dr. Gramling Publishes New Book
Dr. David Gramling has published his new book entitled The Invention of Multilingualism.
RUSS 306A Student Receives Honorable Mention in North American Dostoevsky Society Essay Contest
Winter 2020 Term 1 RUSS 306A student Kirsten Wesselow has received an Honorable Mention for her essay on parentheticals in The Idiot.
Dr. Frackman Introduces Film at Virtual Film Festival
Dr. Kyle Frackman introduced the film The Mistake at the virtual film festival “Authority & Alterity in East German Movies.”
Dr. Nijdam Publishes Research on Refugee Comics in The Conversation
Dr. Elizabeth “Biz” Nijdam has authored an article in The Conversation on refugee comics for the upcoming World Refugee Day on June 20, 2021.
Students of GERM 426 Publish Their Research on Survivors of the Holocaust @UBC – Life & Work
During the academic year 2020/21 students who took GERM 426 (German Representations of the Holocaust) in German literature and film, taught by Dr. Uma Kumar, wrote a research paper on Survivors of the Holocaust @UBC – Life & Work.
Dr. Bowers Gives Talk for Anglo-Russian Research Network
On May 25, 2021, Dr. Katherine Bowers gave a talk for the Anglo-Russian Research Network called “Ghost-Writing: Radcliffiana and the Russian Gothic Wave.”
CENES Department Welcomes New Danish Lecturer
Ann-Kathrine Havemose will be teaching Danish language courses and Scandinavian Studies, beginning in Winter 2021.
Webinar Recordings of “Storytelling as Research: Unsettling the Cultural Politics of Diversity through Filmmaking” Now Available
The recordings of webinars from the workshop, organized by Erin Goheen Glanville and Markus Hallensleben on April 7-9, 2021, are now freely accessible and open to the public.