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Germanic Languages and Literatures
Congratulations to Our 2025 Graduates!
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Recent News
Graduating Seniors: A Transfer Student Who Is Paying It Forward
How Stefan Blazen made his dreams of studying philosophy in Germany come true, and how he would like to be a mentor to others.
Luci Cook Receives Frank X. Braun Award and Berlin Fellowship
Graduate instructor Luci Cook has earned the 2025 Frank X. Braun Award for Outstanding GSI and a Berlin Program fellowship that will support a year of dissertation research in Germany.
Welcome to Germanic Languages & Literatures
Our department offers undergraduate programs in German, Scandinavian, and Dutch and a graduate program in German Studies. In teaching and research, we emphasize the embededdness of language, literature, and the arts in larger social, cultural, and political processes. Our approach, widely known as the “Michigan Model,” has made us one of the premier departments in the US and is unmatched in its interdisciplinary breadth. Students will be guided by faculty with deep methodic training and experience in German, Dutch and Scandinavian languages and literature, Comparative Literature, History, Political Science, Sociology, Film Studies, Philosophy, Media Studies, Museum Studies, and Music.
