I began studying German online after my freshman year at UMass. At the time, I was an Art History major who had spent her freshman year taking intensive Chinese classes.

My name is Sarah Weise and I am a senior from California earning a dual degree in Political Science and German!

Florence Feiereisen (PhD 2007) came to UMass twice: She spent the academic year 2000/2001 in Amherst as an exchange student through the Baden-Württemberg exchange and after finishing her Master’s degree at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, she returned in 2003 to work on her PhD. She joined the faculty at Middlebury College in 2007 and is currently serving as the chair of the Department of German.

Maria Stehle (PhD 2005) is Lindsay Young Associate Professor of German at the University of Tennessee Knoxville. In addition to her monograph Ghetto Voices in Contemporary Germany: Textscapes, Fimscapes and Soundscapes (2012) she is the author of numerous articles and book chapters.

Delene Case White is working on a project about women and mothers in GDR cinema and media, with emphasis on Das Fahrrad (The Bicycle, dir. Evelyn Schmidt, 1982), exploring questions of equity and representation of women as mothers in the GDR.