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The prominent scholar-contributors to this volume share their experiences developing the field of US German Studies and their thoughts on literature and interdisciplinarity, pluralism and diversity, and transatlantic dialogue.

German philology --- Germanists --- German studies specialists --- Area specialists --- Germanic philology --- Study and teaching (Higher) --- Study and teaching(Higher) --- Cultural Policies. --- Diversity. --- Exile Generation. --- German Culture. --- German Studies. --- Humanities. --- Interdisciplinarity. --- Literature. --- Pluralism. --- Scholarship. --- Transatlantic Dialogue.

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In German Studies the literary phenomenon of melancholy, which has a longstanding and diverse history in European letters, has typically been associated with the Early Modern and Baroque periods, Romanticism, and the crisis of modernity. This association, alongside the dominant psychoanalytical view of melancholy in German memory discourses since the 1960s, has led to its neglect as an important literary mode in postwar German literature, a situation the present book seeks to redress by identifying and analyzing epochal postwar works that use melancholy traditions to comment on German history in the aftermath of the Holocaust. It focuses on five writers - Günter Grass, Wolfgang Hildesheimer, Peter Weiss, W. G. Sebald, and Iris Hanika - who reflect on the legacy of Auschwitz as intellectuals trying to negotiate a relationship to the past based on the stigma of belonging to a perpetrator collective (Grass, Sebald, Hanika) or, broadly speaking, to the victim collective (Weiss, Hildesheimer), in order to develop a melancholy ethics of memory for the Holocaust and the Nazi past. It will appeal to scholars and students of German Studies,Comparative Literature, Cultural Studies, Cultural Memory, and Holocaust Studies. Mary Cosgrove is Reader in German at the University of Edinburgh.

German literature --- Melancholy in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Comparative Literature. --- Cultural Memory. --- Cultural Studies. --- German Studies. --- Holocaust. --- Mary Cosgrove. --- Melancholy. --- Nazi Period. --- Postwar German Literature.

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Linguistics --- Linguistics. --- Taalwetenschap. --- Linguistik. --- Zeitschrift. --- Periodikum --- Zeitschriften --- Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft --- Allgemeine Linguistik --- Sprachwissenschaft --- Sprachforschung --- Linguistic science --- Science of language --- linguistics --- Romance studies --- English studies --- German studies --- Presse --- Fortlaufendes Sammelwerk --- Philologie --- Language and languages --- Arts and Humanities --- Language & Linguistics --- 17.01 linguistics: general. --- romance studies --- english studies --- german studies

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Marylin, a novel by the Austrian writer Arthur Rundt about a mixed-race woman passing as white, moves from Chicago to New York City and concludes tragically on a Caribbean island. First published in 1928 and now translated into English, it offers a European view of racial attitudes in the US during the era of the Harlem Renaissance and Jim Crow. Rundt's short but powerful novel touches several vital issues in society today, engaging each in a way that prompts further examination and cross-fertilization. First, it sheds historical light on what has become painfully obvious in the Black Lives Matter era (if it wasn't before): the continued injustice experienced by Blacks in America as an effect of structural racism. Second, it confronts issues of migration and hybrid identities. Third, it has relevance for Women's Studies through the title character's interaction with the patriarchy. Through these connections, it responds to a growing current in German Studies concerned with diversity and inclusion and integrating the discipline into the broader humanities. An introduction and an afterword, both of them extensive and scholarly, contextualize the novel in its time and as it relates to ours.

African American women. --- #MeToo. --- Black Lives Matter. --- Caribbean island. --- Chicago. --- German Studies. --- Harlem Renaissance. --- Jim Crow. --- New York City. --- Women's Studies. --- diversity and inclusion. --- hybrid identities. --- migration. --- mixed-race woman. --- passing as white. --- patriarchy. --- racial attitudes. --- structural racism.

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This volume deals with the study of Old Germanic languages in the Low Countries, in the seventeenth century. The work of the philologist and lawyer Jan van Vliet (1622-1666) has been taken as a starting point for a discussion of the intellectual background and philological methodology of seventeenth-century investigations into the earliest recorded forms of the Germanic languages. Van Vliet's activities provide an extraordinary example of the earliest attempts to approach Old Germanic languages from a comparative point of view. The cosmopolitan tradition of philological studies in the Dutch Republic as well as Van Vliet’s great admiration of Francis Junius (1590–1677), the founding-father of Germanic philology, formed the basis for his ideas about vernacular languages. His work allows us a unique insight in the pioneering seventeenth-century studies in Germanic philology.

Germanic languages --- History of civilization --- Netherlands --- 802.0 --- Engels. Engelse taalkunde --- Germanists --- Philologists --- History. --- Study and teaching --- History --- Biography. --- 802.0 Engels. Engelse taalkunde --- Biography --- Philologians --- Scholars --- Linguists --- German studies specialists --- Area specialists --- Teutonic languages --- Indo-European languages --- Vliet, Jan van, --- Van Vliet, Jan, --- Vliet, Jan van, - 1622-1666. --- Philologists - Netherlands - Biography. --- Germanists - Netherlands - Biography. --- Germanic languages - Study and teaching - Netherlands - History - 17th century.