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GNS+ professor awarded fellowship at Institute for Advanced Study

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Professor of German Pamela M. Potter was awarded a fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) for the 2023-24 academic year. The position allows for uninterrupted curiosity-driven research among a community of scholars at one of the world’s foremost centers for intellectual inquiry. Each year, IAS welcomes more than 200 of the world’s most …

Game On: Scott Mellor leverages a popular video game to engage students in a first-year medieval studies course

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It took awhile for Scott Mellor to realize he was teaching his class backwards. For years, Mellor, a distinguished teaching faculty member with the Department of German, Nordic and Slavic+ Studies, would begin his popular World of the Sagas course, a First-Year Interest Group (FIG) based on the legends and lore of Iceland and the …