Announcements
March 27, 2024
Congratulations!! Erin Taylor, class of 2024, is one of twenty-five US undergraduates majoring in German who have been selected to participate in the 2024 Goethe-Institut Summer Academy "Global Teaching and Learning." The funded summer workshop takes place in Dresden, Germany. It is sponsored by the Federal Republic of Germany and its Transatlantik-Programm.
February 8, 2024
Congratulations to Carol-Ann Veretto for becoming a semifinalist for a prestigious Fulbright English Teaching Assistant Award to Germany! If selected as a finalist, Carol-Ann will have the unique opportunity to teach English and American culture at an elementary, middle, secondary, or vocational/technical school in Germany for 10 months. Wir gratulieren Ihnen, Crann!
May 29, 2023
The German Program would like to congratulate Dr. Ewa Siwak on receiving the highest honor for teaching at Texas State: the Presidential Award for Excellence in Teaching! To put it in perspective, only one other faculty member at the rank of senior lecturer/lecturer has ever received this award in the Department of World Languages and Literatures! This is fantastic news for Dr. Siwak, our program, and our students! This has been a semester for the record books! Viele Gratulationen, Dr. Siwak!
May 8, 2023
Graduating senior Tiana Moritz (Music Performance major/German minor) was awarded the Outstanding Undergraduate Music History Scholarship award for her essay "The Turkish-German Identity in Hip-Hop" at the annual School of Music BRAVO! awards on May 8, 2023.
April 27, 2023
Congratulations to our Fulbright finalists and alternate! Aaron Sturk has been awarded an English Teaching Assistantship to Germany, Olivia Vance has been awarded an English Teaching Assistantship to Mexico, and Mark Shaw is an alternate for the Binational Business Program in Mexico!
April 27, 2023
Joci Tidey, class of 2025, is one of twenty-five US undergraduates majoring in German who have been selected to participate in the 2023 Goethe-Institut Summer Academy "Global Teaching and Learning." The funded summer workshop takes place in Bremen, Germany. It is sponsored by the Federal Republic of Germany and its Transatlantik-Programm.
April 13, 2023
At the World Languages and Literatures Spring 2023 Awards ceremony, the German majors and minors listed below received the following scholarships and certificates:
- Joci Tidey: the Corinda Crews Moeller Endowed Scholarship and the Thomas L. and Helen E. Cox Scholarship
- Carol-Ann Veretto: the Corinda Crews Moeller Endowed Scholarship and the Señor Cicero A. Rust III Endowed Scholarship
- Freddie Layton: Academic Excellence Certificate
February 9, 2023
Matthew Wasson, Class of 2021, recently embarked on a new adventure. He had caught the travel bug/Fernweh during his study abroad in Munich in 2019. In 2021, he taught German to middle-schoolers as our SPARK intern, and pursued ESL training after graduation.
In December of 2022, Matthew moved to Casablanca to work full time as an ESL teacher at the Wall Street English language school.
January 2023
Congratulations to six World Languages & Literatures students who are Fulbright semi-finalists: Luz Elena Anaya Chong, Aaron Sturk, and Christian Gaston for English Teaching Assistantships to Germany, Trey Gruber for an English Teaching Assistantship to Spain, Mark Shaw, for a Study/Research Award in the Binational Business Program, and graduate student Olivia Vance, for an English Teaching Assistantship to Mexico. Herzlichen Glückwunsch, Elena, Aaron und Christian! ¡Felicidades, Mark, Trey y Olivia!
August 2022
The Department of World Languages and Literatures congratulates Dr. Lisa Haegele on receiving a Presidential Distinction Award for Service.
April 2022
The Department of World Languages and Literatures congratulates Dr. Ewa Siwak, Senior Lecturer, whom the Alpha Chi National Honor Society named as a Favorite Professor!
August 2021
The Department of World Languages and Literatures congratulates Dr. Michael Conner on receiving a College Achievement Award in Service.
May 2021
The Texas State German Program congratulates Andrew Morgan, who received the Corinda Crews Moeller Endowed Scholarship.
April 27, 2021
The German Program at Texas State congratulates our alumni Houston Hataway (Class of 2020) and Emma Jane Park (Class of 2019) for being selected as alternates in the 2021-2022 Fulbright U.S. Student Award competition! They are one step closer to teaching English and American culture in Germany!
March 26, 2021
The German Program at Texas State enthusiastically announces that our former student, Gaby O'Connor, dual major German/French, Spanish and Honors minor (class of 2018), now a graduate student in Linguistics at the University of Texas at Austin, has been awarded the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.
Gaby works on the development of human language tools and technologies in multilingual speech. Her project aims to develop a computational model for detecting and processing multi-word expressions in bilingual corpora.
Congratulations, Gaby!!
March 22, 2021
Congratulations are in order for graduating German major Issac Caswell, who has been accepted into the MA Program in German at the University of Arkansas! He has also received a coveted Teaching Assistantship and will be teaching elementary- to intermediate-level German to undergraduates. Herzlichen Glückwunsch, Issac!!
February 5, 2021
Congratulations to our students who have been selected as semi-finalists for the 2021-2022 competition cycle of the Fulbright U.S. Student Program!
Allison Tinglov (bottom left) - Study/Research at the University of Tübingen, Germany
Political Science/International Relations and German
Emma Jane Park (top, Class of 2019) - English Teaching Assistant Program, Germany
German and Secondary Education
Houston Hataway (bottom right, Class of 2020) - English Teaching Assistant Program, Germany
German and Biology
August 21, 2020
Congratulations to Dr. Valentina Glajar, Professor of German, who received the Presidential Distinction Award in Service at the Liberal Arts Fall Faculty Meeting.
May 2020
The German Program congratulates graduating major Hayden Cardy, who completed independent research as part of his final semester at Texas State.
April 20, 2020
The Texas State German Program congratulates Issac Caswell, who received the Elizabeth Topper-Nash Endowed Scholarship and the Corinda Crews Moeller Endowed Scholarship.
April 20, 2020
The Texas State German Program congratulates Luz Elena Anaya Chong, who received the Corinda Crews Endowed Moeller Scholarship.
April 20, 2020
The Texas State German Program congratulates Andrew Morgan, who received the Señor Cicero A. Rust III Endowed Scholarship.
April 15, 2020
The Texas State German Program congratulates German and International Studies graduate Luiza Daude Laurents, who has been awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to Germany for the 2020-2021 academic year. (more)
March 31, 2020
The Texas State German Program congratulates German minor Wesley Moore, who was selected as the Outstanding Undergraduate Student in the College of Liberal Arts for 2019-20.
May 8, 2019
The Texas State German Program's German On Stage course was profiled in the University Star in an article by Laura Figi. The article includes interviews with Dr. Glajar and two different student actors, as well as photos from the performance.
April 24, 2019
The Texas State German Program congratulates German minors Elijah Danielsen and Miracle Tinsley, who were recognized as recipients of the Corinda Crews Moeller Scholarship at the 2019 Liberal Arts Awards Ceremony.
April 3, 2019
Congratulations to Dr. Valentina Glajar, Professor of German, on her selection as first American Council of Learned Societies Fellow at Texas State! Read more at the Texas State Newsroom.
November 2, 2018
Two German faculty members, Dr. Lisa Haegele and Dr. Ewa Siwak, gave presentations on their current research at the Fall 2018 Research Colloquium. Dr. Haegele presented "West German Genre Cinema in the 'Long 1968'" and Dr. Siwak presented "An Ethnic Petting Zoo."
October 9, 2018
Dr. Michael Conner read poems by Antonio Machado (in German translation) and Rainer Maria Rilke at the 2018 Festival de Poesía.
April 23, 2018
The Texas State German Program congratulates Gabriela O'Connor, who received the College of Liberal Arts Outstanding Undergraduate Student Award and the Outstanding Undergraduate Student in Modern Languages Award, and Chelsey Graham, who received the Corinda Crews Moeller Scholarship.
March 28, 2018
The first annual “Do Deutsch! Day” was a great success, with more than 70 students attending, including current and prospective German majors and minors. Juniors and seniors shared their takes on upper-division courses, special programs, and our student organizations. The event was sponsored by the German Club, Delta Phi Alpha German Honor Society, and the German faculty. A huge thank you to Modern Languages for the delicious pizza!
October 16, 2017
German faculty Dr. Valentina Glajar and Dr. Lisa Haegele presented their research on the Cold War on a panel titled “Cold War Spy Stories from the Eastern Bloc.” Also featured were Dr. Alison Lewis (University of Melbourne, Australia), Dr. Corina L. Petrescu (Humboldt Fellow; University of Mississippi), and Dr. Susan Morrison (Professor of English, Texas State University) who presented papers on their archival work on the East German and Romanian secret services. Drs. Lewis, Petrescu, and Glajar are co-editing a book on this topic that will appear through the University of Nebraska Press. This event, organized by Dr. Glajar, enjoyed the generous support and co-sponsorship of Modern Languages, all departments in Liberal Arts, International Studies, the Center for Diversity and Gender Studies, the College of Liberal Arts, and the Honors College.
