Daniel Foil is the 2015-16 DAAD (German Academic Exchange Program) Young Ambassador at UNCG! Please contact him with any questions you might have about study abroad! Here is some more information about Daniel: Hallo! I’m Daniel Foil, a senior double-major in chemistry and German. After participating in an exchange program… Continue reading…
For the fourth time, the German Program at UNCG partnered with the German Information Center of the German Embassy on their annual German Campus Weeks. This year’s theme was “Germany Meets the U.S.” Thanks to a grant from the German Embassy, we were able to host a number of events,… Continue reading…
The German Program welcomed German students Palmer Anderson, Sydney Jarrard, Ashley Jones, Rochelle Rawls, Victoria Starbuck, and Mary Michaela Warlick into UNCG’s chapter of the National German Honorary Society at its annual induction ceremony on February 17, 2016. The chapter also honored Frank J. Tesh Jr., a former UNCG German… Continue reading…
In this work, essays examine the representation of the female self in recent novels written by Spanish women ranging from internationally known, canonized novelists to newer, more experimental writers. They explore the myriad ways in which women’s struggle with self-definition and self-fulfillment is contemplated in Spain during a time in… Continue reading…
Mark Smith-Soto’s poetry merges cultures and familial memory with an aesthetic clarity and wisdom that I admire greatly as a reader and envy as a writer. In Time Pieces, the poet takes us on a linguistic journey across time, place, and emotional landscapes that inform and excite in equal measure…. Continue reading…
Although one of the earliest visual representations of the danse macabre was destroyed over three centuries ago, a successful printer, Guyot Marchant, decided to publish a copy of the images and the accompanying inscription in 1485. The little volume quickly sold out, and was succeeded by a series of subsequent… Continue reading…
This study investigates the perception of Spanish vowels: /a e i o u/ and English vowels: / i ɪ ɛ eɪ æ u ʊ oʊ ɑ ʌ/ by native-speakers (NS) of English learning Spanish and NS of Spanish learning English. It analyzes and compares the perception of NS and non-native… Continue reading…
This book examines Ronsard’s participation in the heated paragone debate between poets and painters: the Renaissance contest for superiority in the ranking of the arts that emerged in counterpoint to the parity-centered, pseudo-Horatian principle of ut pictura poesis (“as is painting, so is poetry”).The book explores issues that, despite their… Continue reading…
The first book to link these five filmmakers together through an analysis of the relationship between filming one’s own body and the creative body. Through engaged artistic practices, these female filmmakers turn the camera to their bodies as a way to show the process of artistic creation and to produce… Continue reading…
François Villon, one of the greatest lyric poets of the late Middle Ages, lived on the margins of French society and died in obscurity. The details of Villon’s life, including his disappearance after being exiled from Paris, are a puzzle that has occupied scholars throughout the twentieth century. His poems… Continue reading…
