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The German and Russian Studies Department offers BA and MA degrees in two cultures and languages of critical significance in the world today - German and Russian - and gives undergraduates the opportunity to study rich cultural traditions associated with several other languages of increasing importance in a global economy. We provide classes in Japanese, Chinese, and Korean language and civilizations, Israeli culture, and the Arabic language. Our internationally recognized faculty pursues research in the wider arena of German and of Russian cultural studies, including literature, film, media studies, philosophy, and the history of science.

Department News and Information

Olaf Schmidt raises a peace sign as he stands alongside the Berlin Wall at Brandenburg Gate in the aftermath of the wall's symbolic fall on Nov. 11, 1989.

Olaf Schmidt recalls life before and after the Berlin Wall came down
(Columbia Missourian, Nov. 9, 2009)
more on the eurokulture blog

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New photo galleries added: Fall 2009 events

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The Autonomy of the Peripherial: lecture by Mark Hansen (more)

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-Greta Westerwald has been accepted for the Graduate School Experience being held at the Ohio State University this summer (more)
-Paul Bolfing will spend the 2009-2010 year studying in Moscow, Russia, and Bonn and Marburg, Germany. (more)
- Rachel Reed: Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship in German awarded (more)
- Paul Weber and Lindsey Foat: MU winners of the 2008 and 2009 DAAD interXchange internship and Marcus Vincent: winner of the CDIS Congress-Bundestag Scholarship (more)
- Monika Fischer and Megan McKinstry were awarded the 2007 Helen Williams Award for Excellence in Collegiate Independent Study. (more)

German Newsletter (Spring 2009 issue) (pdf)

Blogging the World:  The Web in Cultural Context
(German 4005/7005, cross-listed as Russian 4005/7005) is a new course for Fall 2009. It is team taught by German Department Professor Monika Fischer and Journalism Professor Clyde Bentley.  The course is taught in English, but employs the special skills of both language students and journalists.

We have gone public with our class blog at http://eurokulture.missouri.edu/. Your response is also welcome!

Faculty Books

German Faculty
Roger Cook By the Rivers of Babylon: Heinrich Heine's Late Songs and Reflections	Roger Cook The Cinema of Wim Wenders: Image, Narrative, and the Postmodern Condition	Roger Cook A Companion to the Works of Heinrich Heine	Roger Cook The Demise of the Author: Autonomy and the German Writer, 1770-1848
Stefani Engelstein Anxious Anatomy: The Conception of the Human Form in Literary and Naturalist Discourse	Sean Ireton An Ontological Study of Death: From Hegel to Heidegger	Kristin Kopp Peter Altenberg: Ashantee. Afrika und Wien um 1900	Kristin Kopp (with Klaus Müller-Richter) Die Großstadt und das Primitive. Text, Politik, Repräsentation
Brad Prager Aesthetic Vision and German Romanticism: Writing Images	Brad Prager The Cinema of Werner Herzog: Aesthetic Ecstasy and Truth	Brad Prager Visualizing the Holocaust: Documents, Aesthetics, Memory	Carsten Strathausen The Look of Things: Poetry and Vision around 1900
Russian Faculty
Gene Barabtarlo Aerial View: Essays on Nabokov's Art and Metaphysics	Gene Barabtarlo Pnin. Anniversary Edition	Gene Barabtarlo Cold Fusion: Aspects of the German Cultural Presence in Russia	Gene Barabtarlo Phantom of Fact: A Guide to Nabokov's Pnin
Gene Barabtarlo Solzhenitsyn: What A Pity! and Other Short Stories	Gene Barabtarlo Vladimir Nabokov: Time and Ebb	Gene Barabtarlo In Every Place of His Dominion	Gene Barabtarlo A Shimmering Hoop. On the Movement of Nabokov's Themes
Gene Barabtarlo A Small Alpine Form: Studies in Nabokov's Short Fiction	Timothy Langen Eight Twentieth-Century Russian Plays	Timothy Langen The Stony Dance: Unity and Gesture in Andrey Bely's Petersburg
Asian Studies Faculty
Martin Holman The Old Capital	Martin Holman The Book of Masks	Martin Holman The Dancing Girl of Izu and Other Stories	Martin Holman The House of Twilight
	Martin Holman Palm-of-the-Hand Stories	Martin Holman Shadows of a Sound

Contact
Department of German and Russian Studies | University of Missouri-Columbia | 451 Strickland Hall
Columbia, MO 65211-4170
phone: 573-882-4328 | fax: 573-884-8456 | email: grs@missouri.edu

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