Students of German cultural history tap into some of the resources on offer at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, where an exhibition of masks from nineteenth-century Oceania adds fresh perspective to the study of colonialism.
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Sixteen graduating seniors and one graduate have received Fulbright grants to teach English or conduct research overseas.
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From Denmark to Brazil, from South Korea to Spain, these scholars have secured funding to head overseas to teach English or conduct research in the next academic year.
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Be it fiction, nonfiction, or poetry, all submissions are welcome at The Foundationalist. The undergraduate-run literary magazine has gone from strength to strength since it was founded by Bowdoin students in 2018.
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German faculty, students, and alumni hold a series of seminars sponsored by the German Embassy. Under discussion is Susan Neiman’s book Learning from the Germans and what it might teach America about confronting past evils.
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Teaching remotely this semester gave German professor Jill Smith an opportunity to put more emphasis on teaching the art, literature, and cinema of twentieth-century Berlin.
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With a raft of Fulbright awards and other grants, Bowdoin’s German department is looking back on another stellar year for its students and recent alumni. Department chair Birgit Tautz reflects on a year to be proud of.
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Bowdoin students and recent graduates have been offered Fulbrights to teach English or conduct research abroad next year in countries spanning the globe.
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Four Bowdoin professors from different academic disciplines attend a Zoom panel hosted by Bowdoin Democrats. They took questions from students about the extent to which social safety nets will be affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The German department caps the fall semester with a visit by professor Priscilla Layne from UNC—Chapel Hill. The daughter of Caribbean immigrants, Layne talks about her childhood in Chicago and her unusual path to academia.
Read moreFrom the first course they take in our department, students acquire critical, cultural, and linguistic knowledge that gives them skills applicable beyond Bowdoin and in their future careers.