Radio-Canada Interviews Dr. Frackman for Story about Queer Books and Catalogues
Subject headings and other classifications play a role in the display or hiding of LGBTQ topics.
Dr. Frackman Participates in University of Michigan Colloquium
On March 11, 2022, Dr. Kyle Frackman participated in a colloquium organized by the graduate students in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan.
Dr. Malakaj Publishes Essay on Historical Injury and Solidarity in New Fascism Syllabus
Dr. Ervin Malakaj writes of his lived experience as refugee in Germany and brings this experience in conversation with historical revisionism, solidarity structures, and what it means to attend to multiple histories of violence at once.
UBC’s Russian Instructors Stand with Ukraine
We are feeling profound grief and despair at Putin’s invasion of Russia’s sovereign neighbour, and we offer our heartfelt support and solidarity to our Ukrainian students and their families.
Dr. Bowers Publishes Article on Ann Radcliffe’s Russian Afterlife
Dr. Katherine Bowers published an article in the Victorian Popular Fictions Journal in December 2021 on Ann Radcliffe’s Russian translations and reception.
Dr. Frackman Publishes Article on Queer East German Photography
In the latest issue of Radical History Review, Dr. Kyle Frackman has published an article on queer East German photography: “Homemade Pornography and the Proliferation of Queer Pleasure in East Germany.”
Dr. Winthrop-Young Interviewed by UBC’s On Earth Podcast
Dr. Winthrop-Young discussed his current research project involving World Ice Theory, the resurrection of the aurochs, methamphetamine during the Third Reich, and the dangerous connectivity of Nazism.
Dr. Winthrop-Young Publishes on Killer Ants
Dr. Geoffrey Winthrop-Young has published a paper in Germanic Review on Carl Stephensons’s tropical potboiler “Leiningen versus the Ants” (1937).
Dr. Malakaj Publishes Co-Authored Chapter on Queer of Colour Cinema in Germany
The chapter, titled “Resisting the Traps of Hegemony: Variation in Contemporary German Queer of Color Cinema,” was published in the Routledge companion to European Cinema.
Dr. Gramling Podcasts on Multilingualism
Dr. David Gramling spoke on the podcast channel UNESCO RILA: The Sounds of Integration in the first episode of a new series called “The Sounds of Good Books.”