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

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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.

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Department News and Information

Olaf Schmidt in 1989
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.

Congratulations to Patrick Quinn for winning Jeopardy's Teachers Tournament! Patrick Quinn has both a BA and MA in German. He beat out fellow alum Justin Hoffstetter in the final round of the tournament. Justin has two BAs in English and History and took courses in German here at MU! Go Mizzou!

News from MU's Study Abroad group in Leipzig, Summer 2011!

Check out the insider's guide to the Leipzig cooperative Study Abroad program developed by MU students
!

A growing number of graduates and majors in German and Russian were named to A&S Dean's List for Spring Semester 2011. The list is can be seen at http://coas.missouri.edu/, in the drop-down menu under "Current Students".

Etti Naveh-Benjamin was named one of five Kemper Award winners for 2011. Etti teaches courses in the Hebrew and Film Studies curriculi in the Department of German and Russian Studies.

Please join us in congratulating Associate Professor Stefani Engelstein! Dr. Engelstein was recently elected to MLA's (Modern Language Association) executive committee for 18th- and early 19th-century German literature.

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

 



-Congratulations to Greta Westerwald who was chosen as one of the University of Missouri's 2012 most outstanding TA's, and along with 15 others will attend the TA choice awards banquet Thursday, April 26th. ( more)
-Krysta Brown has been awarded a Fulbright Grant in the young American Journalist Program in Germany for the 2012-2013 academic year.(more)
-Congratulations to Kelly Walsh who has been awarded a DAAD summer steipend to study in Leipzig!(more)
-Up in Madison, WI Joey Vergara is making headlines for taking Russian Literature outside of the traditional classroom click here to read the story!
-Calley Bilgram, Ayla Kremen, Grace Spradling, and Alex Stojeba
have been awarded Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship. (more)
-Brittany Aton, Geoff Kennedy, and Alex Ruppenthal
have been accepted to participate in the 2011-12 Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange for Young Professionals. (more)

German Newsletter (Spring 2010 issue) (pdf)

Blogging the World:  The Web in Cultural Context

The class blog can be found at http://eurokulture.missouri.edu/.
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Olaf Schmidt in 1989

Faculty Books

 

Most recent publications by our faculty

 

Heights of Reflection: Mountains in the German Imagination from the Middle Ages to the Twenty-First Century

Edited by Sean Ireton

 

Germany, Poland and Post Memorial Relations: In Search of a Livable Past

Edited by
Kristin Kopp

 

A Companion to Werner Herzog

Edited by Brad Prager

 

Boris Groys' Under Suspicion: A Phenomenology of Media

Translated by
Carsten Strathausen

 

German Faculty

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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
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Peter Altenberg: Ashantee. Afrika und Wien um 1900
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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
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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

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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
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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
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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

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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
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Martin Holman
Palm-of-the-Hand Stories
Martin Holman
Shadows of a Sound
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