Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literature
- Women鈥檚 history snapshot: CU鈥檚 first woman faculty member, now a university icon, hesitated to come West.
- Four professors of distinction and two teaching professors of distinction are named for 2021.
- Winners, who were nominated by colleagues, express humility and gratitude.
- Never officially recognized during her lifetime, the first African American woman to graduate from the University of Colorado was聽posthumously honored this spring. Now, a biography telling the long-overlooked story of Lucile Berkeley Buchanan has been published.
- He鈥檚 a competitive pistol shooter who spends much of his free time roaming the wilds of Wyoming. And he has thousands of followers on聽YouTube, where he regales followers with tales of Nordic heroes in a dulcet baritone.
- Tipped off by a newspaper story, Polly McLean spent more than a decade exhuming Buchanan鈥檚 story and, finally, correcting history. For decades, CU's official history stated that the first black woman to graduate from CU earned her degree in 1924. But that was wrong.
- The first African American woman to graduate from CU, in 1918, earned her degree in German. A trio of experts this month will discuss the historical trends that framed her choice.
- Colin Turner鈥檚 spray-paint installation is one of the 22 pieces of art displayed in the exhibit 鈥溍渂er Mauern hinweg-Beyond Walls,鈥 now housed at the Media Library of the Anderson Language and Technology Center in the Hellems Arts and Sciences building.
- Russian Literature since 1991 is the first comprehensive, single-volume compendium of modern scholarship on post-Soviet Russian literature. The volume encompasses broad, complex and diverse sources of literary material - from ideological and historical novels to experimental prose and poetry, from nonfiction to drama.
- There probably is not a more suitable location for one of the world鈥檚 first interdisciplinary certificates in Arctic studies than the 黑料社区网.