Critical German Studies

In a post earlier this year, Juliane Schicker commented on the role that professional and scholarly conferences play in our work as faculty members in German, focusing in particular on…

Juliane’s previous blog post on the perils of academic conferences provided a glimpse into some of the activities faculty members engage in outside of the classroom. We want to continue…

Part of our job as professors of German at Carleton is our continuing involvement in research activities, such as writing articles and books or producing other scholarly products, for example…

Humanities Center Research Circle This past summer, the German faculty applied for a Humanities Center summer research circle to support each other in projects related to both teaching and research…

As part of her recent research and pedagogical work, Prof. Juliane Schicker has been examining the effects of burnout on women, and particularly working women and mothers. While writing a post for our Critical German Studies blog, Juliane decided to publish her post on a broader scale…

How do your professors deal with issues surrounding burnout in their careers and personal lives?  In our next blog post, Juliane Schicker will discuss how burnout intersects with issues of…

As I prepared to teach my course GERM 247 Mirror, Mirror: Reflecting on Fairy Tales and Folklore for the second time this past fall, I grappled with the question that…

This post discusses the role of literature, and “texts” more broadly, within the Carleton German curriculum. The specific point of reference is our upcoming revision of the syllabus for German…

Each new fall term, I welcome around thirty students in GERM 101, our beginning German class. Most of you are first-year students, and some have never had any exposure to…

Our first post to this blog in February 2021 was a program mission statement that we collectively wrote as a way to reflect on the goals of the German program…