We are very excited to announce that TGDP member Ryan Dux has accepted the position of Visiting Assistant Professor at Bucknell University. He will be teaching German and Linguistics. Congratulations Ryan!!!
We are pleased to announce that TGDP member Dr. James Kearney has been elected to be a member of the Texas Institute of Letters on the basis of his unparalleled work on German-Texan history and culture. Congratulations Jim!!!
Dr. Peter Wagener (Institute for the German Language, Mannheim (IDS)) visits the TGDP to provide advice on the architecture of a comparative speech island archive and to give a talk: “Of German neighborhoods and Low German villages: Spoken German in South Africa.”
TGDP presentation at the Linguistics Department of the University of Chicago: “Internal and external factors in Texas German language variation.” (Hans C. Boas)
Congratulations to TGDP member Alexander Lorenz for winning the “2016 Foreign Language Teaching Award” of the Texas Language Center at UT Austin!!!
We are very excited to announce that former TGDP member Dr. Heiko Wiggers (UT Ph.D. 2006) has received tenure and was promoted to the rank of Associate Professor at Wake Forest University. Congratulations Heiko !!!
Patrick Wolf-Farre (University of Heidelberg) visits the TGDP and give a talk on “What is a German-Chilean? Studying identity through language biographies.”
TGDP presentation at the 40th Annual Meeting of the Society for German-American Studies in San Antonio, TX: “Investigating Texas German in the 21st Century.” (Hans C. Boas and Marc Pierce)
TGDP presentation at the 40th Annual Meeting of the Society for German-American Studies in San Antonio, TX: “Semantic Transfer in Texas German.” (Matthias Fingerhuth)
TGDP presentation at the 40th Annual Meeting of the Society for German-American Studies in San Antonio, TX: “Linguistic variants as sociolinguistic markers in Texas Alsatian.” (Karen Roesch)
TGDP presentation at the 40th Annual Meeting of the Society for German-American Studies in San Antonio, TX: “How much of Texas German is English?” (Ryan Dux)
TGDP presentation at the 40th Annual Meeting of the Society for German-American Studies in San Antonio, TX: “Teaching history through language games: The German-Comanche Treaty.” (David Huenlich and Adams LaBorde)