Didem Uca Writes about Multilingual Theater Project for Fulbright Blog
In a post for the Fulbright Student Program Blog entitled "All the World’s a Stage: Theater as Community Engagement," Didem Uca, PhD candidate (ABD) at the University of Pennsylvania, reflects on how the experience of writing and performing in an intercultural theater...
Dr. Vanessa Plumly Honored with AATG Award
Congratulations to Dr. Vanessa Plumly of SUNY New Paltz on receiving a German Embassy Teacher of Excellence Award from the American Association of Teachers of German! Award recipients are "outstanding up-and-coming teachers who may have started a new program or...
New Issue of Word & Image
Congratulations to WiGgie Dr. Catriona MacLeod, Senior Co-Editor of Word & Image: A Journal of Verbal/Visual Enquiry, on the publication of Volume 34, Issue 3. View the table of contents here.
Turkish-German Yearbook, Vol. 8: Tradition und Moderne in Bewegung
The editors of the Jahrbuch Türkisch-Deutsche Studien are pleased to announce Volume 8: Tradition und Moderne in Bewegung. The articles in this volume bear witness to the productive energy of the interplay between tradition and modernity, whether in theater,...
Carol Anne Costabile-Heming Wins SCOLT Educator of Excellence Award
Congratulations to Dr. Carol Anne Costabile-Heming, Professor of German at the University of North Texas, who was named the 2018 Southern Conference on Language Teaching Educator of Excellence. According to the SCOLT press release, Dr. Costabile-Heming was recognized...
Amy Young Receives International Education Award at Central College
We wish to congratulate Dr. Amy Young on receiving the Huffman Award for Outstanding Support of International Education at Central College! According to the press release, the award "recognizes the contributions made by Donald and Maxine Huffman to Central’s programs...
Gender and Sexuality in East German Film, Edited by Kyle Frackman and Faye Stewart
Drs. Kyle Frackman and Faye Stewart have assembled an all-star team of WiGgies for their edited volume Gender and Sexuality in East German Film: Intimacy and Alienation with Boydell & Brewer. This exciting project is the first scholarly collection in English or...
Congratulations, Priscilla Layne!
We celebrate the success of Dr. Priscilla Layne, Assistant Professor of German at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, who has had a very eventful 2018 so far! In March, Priscilla published her groundbreaking first monograph, White Rebels in Black: German...
Ongoing WiGgie Projects
Here are some ongoing projects we know about: check them regularly for updates!
Feminist German Studies
An online database and archive of links, articles, course and pedagogical tools, and other resources on intersectional feminism and gender studies in the German-speaking countries
Feminist Scholar Activism at the Digital Feminist Collective
The Feminist Scholar Activism project began as a series of interventions created by participants in the WiG-sponsored seminar at GSA 2017.
Grenzenlos Deutsch
an open-access curriculum for beginning German
The WiG HerStory Project
An archive and exhibit of WiG history