Critical German Studies

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…

In early December 2020, the three faculty members in the Carleton German Program met online for a half-day retreat to review and revise our curriculum. Broadly, we hoped to reflect…

What does it mean to recognize oneself in a book? The experience seems at once utterly mundane yet singularly mysterious. While turning a page I am arrested by a compelling…

As a white professor, I must question my Eurocentric “upbringing” in German Studies and my approach to teaching the German language and German-speaking cultures while interacting with a diversifying student…

Mission Statement We, the faculty of the German program, seek to provide students at Carleton College with engaging coursework and exceptional teaching of language and critical analysis. Our students develop…