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We support our colleagues in the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures in condemning Russia’s war against Ukraine. Their statement (https://german.la.psu.edu/news/), reads: “The Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures at the Pennsylvania State University condemns Russia’s unprovoked war against Ukraine. We, Penn State students and faculty, insist on the preservation of Ukraine’s sovereignty and the safety of its inhabitants. We resoundingly reject the false accusations and historical distortions that the Russian government and its media have used to justify the war against Ukraine. Russia’s flagrant violations of international law and human rights must be rebuked. We are profoundly troubled that by invading Ukraine Russia has placed the world in a precarious condition that threatens to escalate globally so that the stability and security of all nations is now under threat. We urge all concerned citizens of the world to petition their government representatives to rebuke Russia’s assault on a sovereign democracy and to aid the Ukrainian people in their hour of need. We are committed to educating future generations about Ukrainian and Russian languages, literatures, and cultures, so that they may understand the vital role that the national cultures of Eastern Europe play in the modern world. Please join the department in speaking out publicly.”
on the publication of the article “Writing Virtuality: Mu Xin’s Sinographic Designs Across Media and Nations” in Writing Chinese: A Journal of Contemporary Sinophone Literature, vol. 3, no. 2, 2025. The abstract and article are available here.
who successfully passed the Comprehensive Exam.
who will be participating in a Research Writing Workshop sponsored by the Humanities Research Fellowship for the Study of the Arab World at NYU Abu Dhabi in January 2026.
for successfully passing the Qualifying Exam.
on the publication of her creative non-fiction piece “Just Now” in the online magazine World Literature Today (November 2025). The piece is available here.
who has been awarded a release from the forthcoming Spring 2026 semester to conduct dissertation research through the College of the Liberal Arts’ Research and Graduate Studies Office (RGSO).
who has been awarded a release from the forthcoming Spring 2026 semester to conduct dissertation research through the College of the Liberal Arts’ Research and Graduate Studies Office (RGSO).
for successfully passing the Qualifying Exam.
for successfully passing the Qualifying Exam.
for successfully passing the Qualifying Exam.
on the publication of his German verse translations of ten poems by Ukrainian poet Yuri Andrukhovych in the journal Ostragehege, no. 116, pp. 25-34.
for successfully passing the Qualifying Exam.
for successfully passing the Qualifying Exam.
for successfully passing the Qualifying Exam.